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Mansour Fine Rugs is pleased to provide you with the finest carpets, rugs, and tapestries from around the world. We import our hand made carpets and tapestries from across the planet to satisfy your needs. All of our rugs and tapestries are woven skillfully by master artisans. Mansour Fine Rugs looks forward to providing you, our customer, with the finest set of handmade carpets, rugs, and tapestries we can offer. Please enjoy our gallery and collection of the finest rugs, carpets, and tapestries in the world.
Cleaning and Restoration
Mansour Rugs always provides the finest quality carpets, rugs, and tapestries; that is why our carpets are sold clean and restored. Our rug and carpet professionals are versed in the ways of cleaning and restoring carpets. We have our carpets and tapestries cleaned professionally, and in a controlled environment. On some occasions, our rugs are left to dry in the warmth of the sun, allowing the rug to sweat out oils that bring out the quality locked deep within a carpet's fibers.
All the rugs and carpets that we sell are sold in excellent shape. If an accident occurs and your carpet is no longer as healthy as it should look, our professionals would be more than happy to look at your rug and help to repair the damage done to your carpet. It is recommended that fine rugs, carpets, and tapestries should be washed professionally every 1 to 3 years. This interval can be increased if rugs are maintained properly at home. Here are a few tips for keeping your rugs, carpets, and tapestries in tact at home.
-Make sure you have a good quality padding under your carpet or rug. This protects your carpet from dust collecting inside the piles and damaging the fibers.
-Rotating the direction of your carpet every couple of months is highly recommended, it allows for traffic to be more evenly spaced on your carpet, so that one side of your rug, carpet, or tapestry doesn't age faster than the other.
-Vacuuming is an essential part of a carpet or rug's life. A carpet should be vacuumed twice a week in order to get out the collecting dust out of its fibers. A rug that is under high traffic should probably be vacuumed 3 times a week.
-At home stain removal on your carpet, rug, or tapestry is recommended only if you have the correct tools and materials to tackle the spill. Such materials include a clean dry rag, a large brush, dilute detergent, dilute vinegar, sponges, glycerin, and alcohol. It is important to dilute a spill on your carpet with water and blot it from the outside towards the center to avoid getting a ring stain on your carpet. Remember that if the stain remains on your rug after one clean, you can try again. If the stain just doesn't want to get out, you can bring it in to our store and we'll have an expert take a look to see if serious damage has been done to your carpet, rug, or tapestry.
Please be very careful who you give your rug for repairs. Some people use strong detergents and acids that break down the fibers that hold together piles in a carpet and cause more long term damage and ageing to your carpet; that is the last thing that we want for you here at Mansour.
Materials
A couple basic materials make up the art of rug creation. These materials are wool, silk, and cotton. Often times, these materials can be used separately or used in conjunction to make a carpet or tapestry. Among the different materials used to make rugs, wool is used to most due to its abundant and economical value.
Carpets made from wool can be broken down into three categories rugs made from live wool, rugs made from dead wool, and rugs made from used wool. Needless to say, carpets and tapestries made from dead and used wool are of lesser quality. It is important to note that those carpets and tapestries made from live wool can often times be polished by the hands of times; after long periods of healthy maintenance, the natural oils and resilient nature of the wool can bring out remarkable richness in the pigments that reside within the rug to the point that the wool carpet is often mistaken for a silk one. Some rugs are constructed from kork, fine wool taken from the belly of a sheep these rugs are perhaps the finest among wool carpets.
An alternative material used in making fine carpet, tapestries, and rugs is silk. Silk comes from the cocoon of a silk worm, and is scarcer than wool. It is used less often as a pile material due to its scarcity. Silk rugs and tapestries are among the finest carpets to be found. Silk is also used as an auxiliary material in some tapestries in order to make certain aspects of the tapestry stand out.
Cotton is usually used in the foundation of a carpet or tapestry. The warps and the wefts are often made of cotton to save materials, although it is not unheard of the find rugs made of silk on silk, or even cotton on cotton.
The wool and silk in our carpets, rugs, and tapestries are dyed with the finest of dyes. There are two kinds of dyes used to dye materials, natural dyes and synthetic dyes. Some examples of natural dyes used on our rugs are azurite, a blue vitreous mineral composed basically of copper carbonate, Indigo, a pigment extracted from shrubs from the genus indogofera, and ocher, a terrestrial iron derivative that can be made into yellow brown or red pigments. Master's of the art of natural dyeing are rare and respected in the carpet community. Among the synthetic brands of dyes available, there are the aniline and chromium dyes. Aniline dyes are notorious for fading and are of bad quality; they usually hurt your carpet, rug, or tapestry due to their acidic nature; on the other hand, chromium dyes are amazingly similar to natural dyes in wear and tear, and they come in thousands of different colors. Our wool and silk is colored with the finest of dyes.
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