How to Make a Turkish Rug Smaller by Luv - A - Rug

Hello it's RugloverMary and todayI am going to show you a Turkish rug that came in for cleaning and binding here's the rug this is a turkish rug that was bought at a local auction here in Victoria bc we know that it's Turkish because of the type of triple side wrap that they use and it is wool on a wool foundation and you can see that ends are fraying a bit and there's some colour bleed in them there's also some old moth damage and some wear and fading in the rug so the lady who owns this rug she actually wants us to trim it to new size because it is too big for the room that she's using it in so what we're going to do, you can see that has the white border around the middle Gul section, these are the Guls here and here so we're doing is we're trimming it back so there no white showing on this end and on the sides we're taking it into here at the beginning of the second border we're going to trim it down from a seven by eleven to a six like just under nine feet so that is what it will look like on the new size which can be done to most rugs if you find a rug at auction that might have some damage on the corners or the end we can either do a hand repair to replace the fringes or re-weave a moth eaten area or we can downsize it to the right size so if you have a rug which you are interested in keeping but it's just not perfect you can bring it into Luv-A-Rug in victoria bc and we can go over the options for you this has been RugloverMary, thank you