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Rug damage: Threadbare, holes and tears
Threadbare occurs with consistent wear to the pile of a rug over years of use. When a rug is in an area with lots of foot traffic, it is common to see the pile slowly fade away. Of course, this would not happen over night and can take months, years or even generations to notice (depending on the durability of the rug). Threadbare can be prevented by taking some small but effective measures such as rotating the handmade rug from time to time, avoiding the placement of furniture on the rug for elongated periods of time and placing coasters under areas where furniture rests to spread the weight exerted onto the rug. Threadbare damage requires precision and attention to detail if it is to be restored correctly without the repair being noticeable.
In extreme cases of threadbare where moths have been involved in eating the entirety of the pile, the pattern can be lost from the face of the rug only leaving the foundation. Our master weavers tackle this issue by measuring the symmetry in the pattern from various areas of the rug and tracing it on the faded area. This leaves a precise imprint to weave over and provides a repair that is almost entirely invisible and is barely noticeable.
The Indian Agrah rug piece depicted on the right is another example of threadbare, this particular rug had a significant level of threadbare damage throughout the rug and was quite a large project.
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