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OUR RUG REPAIR: Fire Burns | Singes | Charring

EXPERT RESTORATIVE CARE THAT RESCUES AND RESURRECTS…

Our Repair and Restoration Expertise Guarantee

As Rug and Tapestry Specialists, we offer professional hand-crafted restorative care tailored to suit every Fire Burnt, Singed or Charred-damaged weaving’s needs. Whatever the type or size of repair works to be undertaken, and whether your piece is hand-made, machine-made or hand-tufted, contemporary, traditional, antique or rare – we ensure all Fire Burnt, Singed or Charred-damaged pieces are conserved with undivided care and meticulous attention to detail. Our expert repairs will safeguard your weavings use and value, and come with our Repair and Restoration Lifetime Guarantee included.

Rug | Tapestry ~ Free Collection and Handling Care

From the moment your Fire Burnt, Singed or Charred-damaged rug or tapestry is collected, it is handled and treated with the utmost care during each stage of the restorative process at our Rug Care Workshop Studios.
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Restorative Care Inspection for Works Go-ahead

As soon as your Fire Burnt, Singed or Charred-damaged weaving arrives at our Rug Care Workshop Studios, we undertake a detailed restorative care inspection. Details including age, woven materials and size, as well as rug fibre condition, weave construction, and any previous stains, old repairs, colour-run, or moth damage are noted, where we perform a colourfastness test on a concealed area, if required. We then review the extent of the Fire Burnt, Singed or Charred damage, to assess the rug or tapestry’s specific treating and cleaning requirements, and afterwards the potential repair works needed to secure your piece.

Encouraging renewed rug fibre suppleness

The first step in our restorative process is to perform a dry, gentle de-dusting on the Fire Burnt, Singed or Charred-damaged piece – an important step specifically designed for rugs, runners, Persian rugs and Oriental carpets. This process gently loosens dust particles and safely eliminates ingrained debris and embedded build-ups in delicate rug fibres that standard vacuuming cannot reach. It actively encourages renewed rug fibre suppleness and allows our specialised repair and restoration processes to work more effectively.

Re-Conditioning Rug Fibres For True-Colour Vibrancy

The next restorative step is hand-cleaning Fire Burnt, Singed or Charred-damaged weavings. This crucial process ensures a clean weaving foundation, with re-conditioned, supple rug fibres, so that our hand-crafted repair works can be safely applied and our custom-dyed new yarns matched to the weaving’s true colours, to produce a seamless, authentic finish.

First, Fire Burnt, Singed or Charred-damaged weavings are temporarily secured with threading. Next, we apply our traditional hand-cleaning methods, combined with organic soap solutions – safe for children and pets. Every clean includes a FREE hand-conditioning treatment for fringes and a FREE professional-grade moth treatment to prolong the lifespan of your rug. Our hand-cleaning methods actively rejuvenate and recondition rug yarn fibres, with allergens removed, colours and textures revived, and the lustre restored.
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Authentic Works With A Seamless Professional Finish

After the hand-cleaning process, restorative repair works for Fire Burnt, Singed or Charred damage can now be safely hand-applied.

Fire Burns, Singes or Charring damage to a piece can be caused by a number of varying factors. If the damage is left untreated, it may lead to further disintegration of an already damaged weave, with the piece becoming more difficult to use safely and causing a potential trip hazard. This in turn leads to more long-term weave foundation structural damage.

Restorative works are imperative to resurrect a Fire Burnt, Singed or Charred-damaged weaving. Our professional expertise can restore the missing and damaged areas and preserve the original craftsmanship from deteriorating further, by applying our hand-crafted restorative methods and techniques to preserve its value, functionality and longevity.

The first stage involves cutting out the disintegrated burnt, singed or charred damaged areas of the weave. Next, new yarns are matched up and hand-spun to the correct thickness to create new warp foundation threads that are needed to replace the missing areas. Next, the varying spun yarns are custom-hand-dyed to accurately match the original weave’s warp thread colours. These newly-dyed yarn threads are then meticulously applied and re-woven into the missing foundation areas.

Next, more new yarns are matched up, hand-spun to the correct thickness and custom-hand-dyed to match original weaves pile areas, knots and any decorative fringe or kilim ends. A graph paper gridded design is drawn to scale of the missing pattern, and used when needed. Newly-dyed yarn threads are then carefully rewoven into the weave to reconstruct the original design, by re-piling and re-fringing the previously missing and damaged areas. Here, we use our range of bespoke craftsman tools and rug hooks to re-knot the yarn and reweave the original patterns and colours.

To ensure the new woven areas are securely joined, we thread a thin cotton thread through the foundation of the weave – having previously hand-spun and custom-hand-dyed it – to gently and carefully draw all of the weave together, thereby closing any gaps between the original and newly constructed, woven areas. This important step ensures a seamless restoration, with a professional finish.

Once the reweaving, re-piling and re-fringing works are complete, the newly constructed woven areas are brushed out. The weaving is then flat ironed to ensure it remains even and stable, with any pile smoothed out and/or trimmed to match the original length, to ensure an authentic finish and the piece is now safe to use.

Free Return Delivery at Your Convenience

After a final inspection, the repaired and restored piece is carefully rolled and securely encased in a protective waterproof sleeve – ready for FREE return delivery to your door, booked at a time that is best for you.

Ready To Transform Your Fire Burnt, Singed or Charred-damaged Rug or Tapestry?

Fire Burns, Singes or Charring damage may happen – but it doesn’t have to ruin your weaving! Our hand-applied Specialist Rug and Tapestry Works can repair and restore Fire Burnt, Singed or Charred-damaged areas, and help preserve and protect your weaving and retain its value.

Contact Us today or click our dedicated gold button (see top right) to Get a Free No-obligation Rug Repair Quote or to book FREE Collection, and we will get back to you promptly.

We restore Fire Burns, Singes or Charring damage:
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RESTORE YOUR RUGS

with our Expert Rug Repair!

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for all Rug Works

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