In Home Rug Maintenance
VACUUMING is the most important step in maintaining your rug.
How can you dust your small and large rugs? The best way is with a vacuum cleaner. The setting is important here. You do not want the setting on low as the brush or worst the beater bar
will cause undue abrasion to the rug. So just make sure your setting is not to low. A weekly (minimum) vacuuming will greatly reduce the amount of damage caused by dust and grit. Simply
go from end to end (not side to side), and run the attachment (if you have one) along the length of the rug WITH the nap of the face fibers. To determine which way the nap should sit just
run your hand on the rug like your petting an animal. One way the pile wants to stand up and the other way it wants to lie down. We want it to lie down. Run the vacuum attachment "with
the nap." This picks up the dust that has settled on top but has not yet reached its way down to the base yet. Another plus with using the attachment is that you don't get the fringe
tangled in it and torn as with a regular upright vacuum cleaner. So of course never run an upright vacuum over the fringes, never ever.
If possible, 2-4 times a year, it is good to shake out or use an old fashion rug beater or even a broom will do (only beat the back side, never the pile side, never ever). Do this out doors
of course. The smaller rugs and the flat woven pieces (Kilims, Dhurries and Navajos) will be easy to do. The larger ones should be placed face down (fuzzy side down, never beat the top of a rug)
on to a hard surface. Then a beater bar upright vacuum should be slowly ran along the back of the rug from side to side (don't go from end to end because there is a chance that fringe will get
sucked up into the beater bar). Make sure the vacuum is at the “normal” or “high” setting level. All you want is the vibration of the vacuum to do the work, and this can be done at these settings
(don't use the “low” setting). The vibrations shake the dirt loose from the base and onto the hard floor. You can then flip the rug to the other side and sweep up what has been shaken out, and
then vacuum the top from side to side. If nothing has been shaken out of the rug, then you are doing an excellent job with your routine weekly dusting.
Be sure to also flip over the corners of your larger rugs to inspect the backside of the rug for insect activity (moths and carpet beetles tend to frequent areas with little air circulation
and no direct light, such as underneath sofas or behind curtains). Their larva resembles “sticky” white lint.
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