A hole does not end a hand-knotted rug. Our plant rebuilds the foundation and reknots the missing pile by hand, matching the wool and the pattern, so the repair disappears into the rug. Free pickup and delivery across Nassau and Suffolk, written price first.
A hand-knotted rug is built on a grid of cotton or wool threads, the warp and the weft, with a knot of pile wool tied on every crossing. Reweaving means rebuilding that grid where it is missing and then tying new knots onto it, one by one, in the colors the pattern calls for, until the surface is level with the rest of the rug. It is the same work the original weaver did, on a small area, by hand.
It is slow, and that is why it is quoted by the size of the damage. A coin-sized burn is a short job. A hole the size of a dinner plate, with the foundation gone, is a long one. The technician measures the damage at pickup and writes the price before the rug leaves your house.
Reweaving is different from patching. A patch glues or sews a piece of another rug into the hole; it is fast and it shows. We reweave on the rug's own foundation so the repair ages with the rug. Patching has its place on low-value machine-made rugs, and we will say so when it is the sensible choice. For the full list of what we repair, see rug repair on Long Island.
Dog and cat damage, furniture legs that wore through, a rip from moving. The foundation is rebuilt first, then the pile.
Fireplace embers, candles, cigarettes. The charred wool and foundation are cut back to sound material and rewoven.
Traffic lanes and doorway spots worn down to the foundation. The pile is reknotted so the lane disappears; on very large worn areas we talk honestly about cost versus value.
Bald areas where larvae ate the wool are rebuilt after the rug is treated and washed. See moth damage rug repair.
Glued patches, mismatched wool and lumpy earlier repairs are removed and redone properly.
Rows lost at the ends of a rug are rewoven before new fringe goes on; curling corners are rewoven and blocked.
The skill in reweaving is not the knots; it is the matching. New wool is dyed to each color in the damaged area, and because wool that has been on a floor for thirty years has faded and softened, the match is made to the rug as it is now, not to the colors it was woven in. The weaver works from the surrounding pattern, continuing the border, the medallion or the field motif through the repair so the eye does not stop. On a rug with an abrash, the natural banding where the original dye lot changed, the repair follows the band.
Pile height matters as much as color. New knots are tied slightly long and then sheared down to the height of the worn pile around them, so the repair does not stand up like a patch of new carpet. On a rug that is worn low everywhere, the repair is sheared low. When the rug is groomed and lying on the floor, a good reweave is found only by someone who knows where to look, and we show you the before and after photos so you do.
The rug is picked up free and washed first, because new wool is matched to clean wool and a repair matched to a dirty rug stands out after the next wash. On the bench, the damaged area is squared off to sound foundation. New warp and weft threads are laid in and anchored to the originals. Then the knots: the weaver reads the pattern from the surrounding rug, picks wool dyed to match each color, and ties knot after knot until the area is filled. The new pile is sheared to the height of the old, the back is finished, and the rug is groomed and inspected before delivery. See how the wash itself works on the rug pickup and plant wash page.
Turnaround depends on the area and the knot density. A fine rug with many knots per inch takes longer than a coarse village rug. We give a real date at pickup, not a guess.
For a hand-knotted wool rug, almost always. The repair costs a fraction of replacing the rug and keeps the rug's age, color and value. For antique and inherited pieces it is the only responsible option (antique rug cleaning). For machine-made rugs, usually not: binding, fringe and a good pad make sense, but hand reweaving can cost more than a new rug, and we will tell you that at the door rather than take the job. The Oriental rug cleaning cost guide explains how we think about rug value.
Dogs chew corners, cats scratch the pile out of one spot, and both leave a rug with a hole that is small on the surface and larger underneath where the foundation has been pulled. These are the reweaves we do most. The area is squared off, the foundation is rebuilt, and the pile is reknotted; if there was urine with the damage, the rug is treated and flushed in the wash first so the repair is not done over a stain that will show later. For a dog that is still chewing, we will say so: a rug pad and a different corner for the rug cost less than a second repair.
All reweaving is done at the plant; we pick up and deliver free in every town in Nassau and Suffolk.
Our rug trucks are in Nassau every week: Garden City, Great Neck, Manhasset, Port Washington, Roslyn, Glen Cove, Locust Valley, Syosset, Jericho, Woodbury, Massapequa, Merrick, Rockville Centre, Long Beach, Hewlett, Valley Stream.
And across Suffolk, from the South Shore to the East End: Huntington, Dix Hills, Melville, Smithtown, Commack, Babylon, Bay Shore, Islip, Brentwood, Deer Park, Lindenhurst, Hampton Bays, Kings Park, Brookhaven.
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On a hand-knotted rug, a properly matched reweave is very hard to find once the pile is sheared and groomed. We photograph the area before and after and show you before delivery.
By the size of the damaged area and the fineness of the rug, because the work is done knot by knot. The technician measures the damage at pickup and writes the price before the rug leaves. Pickup and delivery are free.
Technically yes, but it is rarely worth the cost. For machine-made rugs we recommend binding, serging, fringe replacement and padding instead, and we say so at the door.
Yes. The weaver reads the surrounding pattern and continues it through the repaired area with wool dyed to match each color.
Small repairs add days to the 7 to 10 day wash. Large holes, worn lanes and fine rugs take weeks. We give you an honest date at pickup.
So the new wool matches the rug as it will look when clean, and so the foundation we build on is free of grit. The wash and the reweave are quoted together.
Same-day appointments across Nassau and Suffolk. Carpet from $25 per room (3-room minimum), $20 off any service when you book online, and a written price before we start.
