Job completed for Staatstburg Hooked Rug Cleaning

Completion date: February 11, 2026

Location: Staatsburg, NY

Why did the customer contact us?

Hooked rugs are quite valuable and due to their hooked nature require proper preservation. The rug is a classic arts and crafts hooked rug. 

Traditional hooked rugs are made loop by loop, usually by hand, pulling strips of wool or fabric through a backing. Even a small rug can take hundreds of hours. There’s no shortcut if it’s done the old way.

These rugs are known as folk art, intrinsic to American culture, including but not limited to animals, landscapes, pictorial renditions of political figures, and most importantly family history, which made each rug singular

The materials used often were wool or recycled fabric 

Solutions provided:

Since this is a hooked rug with enormous moth damage the following will have to be done:

This is called re-hooking:

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  Match wool as closely as possible (texture + color)

  
  


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  Hook from the back, following original direction

  
  


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  Keep loop height consistent