Binding Edges

Beautiful carpets and rugs contend with a lot of wear and tear from day to day life happening around them. Regardless of the materials your rug is made of, at some time or another, you’ll see that your rug is beginning to take a beating – it’s fraying and unravelling.

Binding strengthens a rug

Machine-made rugs have binding tape that has been sewn over and around the edges. These rugs are made on cotton foundations and aren’t hand-tied or woven so their bindings are strong.

With Oriental- and handmade rugs, the edges are bound by hand with over-round stitches to protect the rug’s edges from being overly exposed to wear and tear.

You need to repair a rug’s binding quickly so that you don’t jeopardize the stability of the rug, not to mention the value of an expensive handmade rug.

Be very careful who does your rug’s binding

Any investment rug should never be handed to anyone. It is imperative to put your rug into the hands of rug binding professionals if you don’t want an amateurish job. At Antique Rug Cleaning we’ve been handed many rugs where the binding has been done by someone who isn’t a rug expert.

Rug experts like us have the tools and skills to do a professional job so that we preserve the value of the rug. We do a thorough inspection of your rug where we assess the damages and we set about repairing it by hand using only the best materials.

Depending on the damage we find, we will do either full hand binding replacement or what is known as spot binding repairs. Each type of binding will possibly require different methods to repair it and while some binding is made of cotton, some are made with camel hair or wool. We always have the right materials in stock to ensure the best binding ever.

Your rug never curls at the edges

We expertly remove the frayed binding and with handmade rugs, we do hand sewing to ensure the repair colors match the rug exactly. If the binding is completely worn, the new binding will need to be secured and sewn under tension, followed by overcasting.

We make sure at the same time that we give your rug additional support that ensures the edges of the rug don’t curl up. It is precisely why it is so important to hire rug cleaning and repair experts in Miami as then your rugs maintain their good looks and value.

Antique Rug Cleaning your number one rug-binding experts

Getting the wrong people to work on your rugs will mean an incompetent service where event the shape of your rug can change and it loses its overall good looks.

The only way to ensure a job well done is to call us at our toll free number 1866-976-8748

to  Antique Rug Cleaning – we’re Miami’s rug experts.