Job completed for Chinese Rug Cleaning Customer in Athens

Completion date: June 6, 2025

Location: Athens, NY

Why did the customer contact us?

This is a classic hand knotted rug from circa 1900 China. The French blue of the rug is due to the enormous influence of the French on the Chinese culture. The rug is a Ming Dynasty medium pile rug. The rug itself when brought to the showroom required enormous restoration work. Given its antiquity and overall quality the rug is a valuable rug worthy of belonging in a museum. This is a textbook rug and has a classic Ming dynasty design with the medallions.

Jafri Rugs inspection work looked at the following:
-Fringe was fraying
-Binding was unraveling
-Moth damage was showing all throughout the rug
-Worn areas throughout the rug
-Warp and weft was coming through the pile of the rug

Solutions provided:

Jafri Rugs not only cleaned the rug but brought back the vitality of the rug and increased the overall value of the rug. Jafri Rugs antique weavers repaired the rug to its original state and restored a century old rug. The rug required spot treatment and binding and fringe restoration.
The rug additionally required reweaving into the field of the rug which was all done by hand.