Woburn Carpet Care

DIY Carpet Cleaning Bunches of DIY cleaning tips for you. Happy Carpet cleaning! 1.    Remove white spots by rubbing the surface with soft cloth dipped in ammonia and water 2.    Remove white spots by using steel wools; apply some olive oil, finally to wax on it. 3.    Remove white spots by applying some ashes from cigarette. 4.    Refinish the furniture to completely remove the white spots. 5.    Apply oil based furniture polish to remove water ring marks. 6.    To remove water ring marks also you can apply mayonnaise. 7.    A wiping by a piece cloth with baking soda and non gel toothpaste is also checked to be helpful in removing water ring marks. 8.    Salts melted in soyabeen oil also help in removing water ring marks. 9.    Rub furniture with vinegar dipped cloths to give it shine. 10.    Leaving coffee inside your wardrobe can help removing bad smell. 11.    Cat litters and baking soda can also be left in wardrobe or covered furniture to remove odor. But they need to be dried up well before reusing. 12.    Did you try bleaching powder to remove odor from covered furniture and clean your floor tiles or wooden ground? 13.    Any liquid cleaner works great to remove raw pine or build ups from it. 14.    Children crayons are used for hiding scratch marks. 15.    You can easily respond to some perspiration stain of your upholstery by cleaning the stain using white vinegar, liquid dishwasher. But check if the upholstery for its instruction if it can be got wet. 16.    If your leather furniture got some water marks, clean it with a moiré cloth. Simply wipe the mark. This process is also helpful for other liquid based marks. 17.    Cigarette burns are removable by paste of linseed oil and pumice. Later polish the surface. 18.    Apply mayonnaise, butter, Vaseline, margarine to remove heat ring marks leave it for a night, clean the mayonnaise next day. Give a polish. 19.    Use Turpin, saddle soap or alcohol to remove paint marks. 20.    Some alcohol that cause marks are removable by blotting the spot with ammonia immediately. 21.    To remove odors of cigarette, you can open up the windows as best solution. But if the smoker lives with you, keep a pot of baking soda and a pot of vinegar opened in a pot inside your rooms. This process is also helpful to remove odor from covered furniture and you need to keep soda and white circa close to them. 22.    Crayons can be removed repeating same procedure of wax removal. 23.    Remove chewing gum residuals from leather by rubbing ice on it, making it stiff later to be scratched. 24.    Apply cornstarch on marks caused by human organs to remove the mark.

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Persian Rugs

Speaking in modern time about Iranian carpets, actually former Persian carpets are foreseen. Everything concerning way of manufacturing, design, materials used and woven techniques come form ancient times and the culture and traditions of Persia. Therefore the Iranian carpet, called Gelim, is truly considered as the oldest flow covering in the world. Not only because of the fairy-tales stories Iran is synonym of carpets and rugs.

Traditionally, the Iranian rugs are made from wool, with cotton warp threads. They are plane or with pile. The wefts and the pile are made from wool yarns, preliminary dyed in order to create the colored pattern. Both vertical and horizontal looms are used for weaving.

There could be modifications of the Persian gelim with pile, called as well Persian knotted gelim: both warp and weft threads could be made from cotton fibers and only the pile threads to be woolen or silk ones. Patterns are very different and depend mainly on the particular place of origin or the traditions of the particular nomad tribe.

The most productive period in the history of carpets and rugs craft in Perisa was between 15th and 17th centuries. A capital of the country was the city of Isfahan, situated in the western parts of Central Iran. Even today Isfahan carpets are famous by their quality.

The typical design includes deep red and blue colors among total number of 15 colors per carpet. The background is in light ivory. Usually a centrally placed medallion is surrounded by floral motifs.

Typical for the very old Isfahan carpets is the use of cotton yarns as warp and weft thread. Later silk yarns replace the cotton warp while the weft is made by both wool and silk fibers (rarely cotton fibers). The knot rugs use soft wool for the pile, which is between 120 to 840 knots per square inch.

Another famous by its carpets and rugs Persian town is Bakhshaish. The typical design of Bakhshaish rugs includes the so-called Herati pattern with central medallion and “tortoise” border. By contrast with Isfahan carpets several geometrical motifs are used here. The clean symmetry is the most distinguished for Bakhshaish rugs. Their colours are very typical: the medallion is made by yarns with bright colors, while the background involves lighter colours.

The weft and warp yarns are spun from wool or cotton. The pile is woollen. The knots are very tight, which makes the rugs extremely stable in wearing out.

Another place in Iran, famous with the production of Persian carpets is the town of Bidjar, situated in Kurdistan. The most important characteristics of Bidjat rugs is their durability and weight, therefore they are known as “the iron rugs”. The Herati design is frequently used as well as geometrical and curvilinear patterns. The colour palette includes ochre, navy, orange, beige and ivory, cherry red, brown, light blue, pink, yellow.

The pile of Bidjar rugs is distinguished for being higher, compared with other Iranean rugs. Very high quality wool fibres are used for the pile. The foundation of very old carpets was made by wool threads as well. The most important here is the technology of beating up the knots row. The beating is very strong, which makes the carpet very tight. On the other hand, the beating provokes high tension in both warp and weft threads. This precondition the requirement that Bidjar rugs cannot be folded, but only rolled, if needed.

Having such a high quality Persian carpet is expensive and at the same time very big pleasure. You have to take care for proper cleaning and professional maintenance in order to enjoy it for very long time. This way you will experience every day the oriental fairy-tale stories about he Persian flying carpets… staying at your home.

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