Restoration.
Reweaving, color restoration, antique wash - the slow crafts that happen on the restoration bench.
Everything we've written on restoration.
Restoration crafts — reweaving, color restoration, antique wash — explained by the artisans who practice them.
Rug Binding, Serging and Patching: Repairing the Edges
Rugs do not die in the middle; they die at the edges. What binding, serging, and patching each actually are, which repair fits which rug, and why the cheap fix on a hand-knotted piece costs the most.
Antique Wash, Overdye, and Whitewash - The Three Treatments Explained
What each treatment does, when each is appropriate, and why the antique wash is the only one that respects the rug.
Color Restoration - When a Faded Rug Can Be Brought Back
The hand craft of selective re-tinting with light-fast dyes - and the limits of what can be restored.
Restoring a 17th-Century Rug - A Case Study
Six weeks at the restoration bench - color match, foundation rebuild, fringe reconstruction on a 350-year-old piece.
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Care
How to clean, store, and protect a hand-knotted rug - by the family that does it for a living.
Types
Every great weaving tradition - Persian, Turkish, French, silk - and how to know what you have.
Workshop
Behind the scenes at the Cohen family workshop. A day in the life, the master artisan, the family.
Local
Northeast-specific rug care - the Hamptons, Manhattan, Greenwich, the seasonal patterns of HNW homes.
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A few of the rugs we've cared for — and the families who trusted us with them.
“They returned an heirloom Tabriz — the colors look exactly as my grandmother described them.”
“A 1920s Heriz I thought was beyond saving came back better than the day my parents bought it.”
“Our clients trust us with eight-figure homes. Horizon is the only workshop I send their rugs to.”