Persian, oriental, wool and silk — washed by hand, repaired by hand.
Middle Tennessee does not give a rug a dry month. Rain falls in every one of them, the summer nights stay warm and wet, and most of the good floors in this city sit over a crawlspace or a basement making its own weather underneath. Rugs are collected, washed off site by hand, dried flat, and brought back.
A hand-knotted Tabriz and a polypropylene flatweave off a shelf are not the same object, and they should never meet the same brush. Vegetable dyes bleed. Silk scorches under heat. Cotton foundations shrink if they are pulled out of the wash wet and dried under tension. Guessing is how rugs get ruined.
So nothing gets cleaned until it has been looked over: fibre content, dye stability, weave construction, backing, previous repairs, and whatever a run of Tennessee summers has left down in the foundation. Only then does the rug get a method. That inspection costs nothing, it happens before you commit to anything, and if a rug is not worth the cost of cleaning we will say so.
Wool, silk, cotton, jute and synthetics each get their own water temperature, pH and agitation.
Chewed corners, unravelling fringe, moth grazing and split foundations rebuilt by hand.
The cellar smell in a downstairs room is treated in the foundation, not perfumed over.
We collect and return across Davidson and Williamson counties. You never lift a roll.
Washing, structural repair, and getting water back out of a rug before it becomes a mould problem.
Full immersion hand-washing for Persian, oriental, wool, silk, cotton and modern synthetic rugs. Dry grit comes out before any water is introduced, then the rug is washed, flushed until the water runs clear, and dried flat under moving air.
Rug cleaning detailsFringe replacement, edge binding, moth damage, pet destruction, worn pile and missing corners. Reweaving is done with matched wool at matched knot density, so the repair settles into the field instead of announcing itself.
Repair servicesA creek out of its banks, a basement that took water up one wall after a spring storm, or a supply line that let go upstairs. Rugs in that state need flushing and controlled drying, not a fan pointed at them. We extract, decontaminate, dry flat, and document the condition throughout.
Water damage service
Rug care advice written for a dry climate does not transfer here, and neither does advice written for a place with a defined wet season. Nashville gets rain in every month of the year — somewhere between three and a half and five inches of it, wettest in May — for close to fifty inches annually. Nothing in this city ever catches up over a dry spell, because there is no dry spell. Then July and August arrive, with daily highs around ninety and overnight lows near seventy, so the air never cools down far enough to give its moisture back.
Some of the soaked rugs in this city met a river. Most of them met a supply line behind a washing machine, a water heater at the end of its life, a slow leak under a dishwasher, or a basement wall that took a seam of water after a heavy spring night. Water that starts clean is rarely clean by the time it reaches the rug, because it has crossed a slab, a joist bay or a century of dust on the way.
Creek and river water is its own category. The Harpeth, Richland Creek and Mill Creek all respond fast to the kind of rainfall Middle Tennessee gets in spring, and that water crosses roads, yards and garages before it reaches a floor. Either way, what matters is what happens next. A wet wool foundation is a growing medium and a warm room speeds that up, which here means most rooms for most of the year. Drying the surface with a fan leaves the contamination in the base of the pile and produces a rug that seems fine for a few weeks and then does not. The rug has to be flushed, treated, and dried flat with the moisture content actually measured — and photographed before any of that, because that is what an insurer will ask for.
Off-site washing, hand finishing, and a route that runs from Germantown down to Franklin.
From Germantown and East Nashville through Hillsboro Village, 12 South, Green Hills and Belle Meade, south to Brentwood and Franklin, and west along the Harpeth to Bellevue. Collection is included.
One hand-knotted Persian rug, photographed before and after cleaning.
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How rugs are actually built, how to tell hand-knotted from tufted in ten seconds, and what any of it means for an old house in Middle Tennessee.
Free estimate, collection and delivery included — anywhere on the route.
