By hand, at the bench
Repaired the way it was made
Each repair is done by hand at our Lighthouse Point bench with a needle and matched yarn — the very methods the rug was made with. Nothing gets glued, taped, or passed to an outside workroom.
A frayed fringe or a small hole doesn’t mean the rug is finished. We rebuild rugs by hand at our own Lighthouse Point plant — the same place they’re washed — so the fix follows the weave instead of hiding it.
Small now, or big later
A rug comes apart from its edges inward. The end knots are held in place by the fringe and the side cords; once those let go, the pile beside them has nothing to anchor it and begins to walk off the rug a row at a time.
Caught early, a loosening fringe or a fraying edge is a quick, contained repair. Left through another season of traffic in a busy waterfront household, that same edge becomes lost knots that have to be rewoven — far more work, and far more cost.
The salt-air wear you handle early is the wear you never pay to reweave.
So when we spot early wear at a cleaning inspection, we point it out — not to upsell you, but because a stitch now spares a reweave later.
By hand, at the bench
Each repair is done by hand at our Lighthouse Point bench with a needle and matched yarn — the very methods the rug was made with. Nothing gets glued, taped, or passed to an outside workroom.
Done in-house
The fringe is the rug’s foundation showing through, not decoration. We secure a loosening fringe or rebuild a lost one so the end knots stay locked where they belong.
The side cords take the punishment from vacuums and furniture legs. We re-wrap and re-secure worn edges by hand before the pile beside them starts to let go.
A hole or a scorch is rewoven a knot at a time in matched wool, tracking the original pattern so the mend disappears into the design rather than sitting on top of it.
Moths feed on wool from the back, where you never see them. We treat the infestation, then reweave the grazed and eaten areas back to full pile.
A rug left damp on tile — a real risk this close to the water — can rot at the foundation until it cracks. We assess how far it has spread and rebuild the sound sections still worth saving.
A rug can be gently shortened or drawn in to suit a room, and a worn-out antique carried back through full restoration — always weighed against what the rug is actually worth.
Keep it off the bench
A few small habits do most of the work. Rotate the rug a couple of times a year so one path doesn’t take all the wear, and use a proper pad underneath — it stops the rug sliding and cushions the foundation against the hard tile most Lighthouse Point homes are built on.
Keep it dry: wipe spills quickly and never let a wet rug sit, because our coastal humidity turns lingering damp into rot and mildew. And vacuum gently without dragging the beater bar across the fringe, which is where the unraveling usually starts.
The honest part
Yes — and bluntly. Some rugs are worth far beyond whatever a repair runs, and others are worth less than the hours a proper fix would eat. We’ll tell you which of the two yours is before you spend anything.
A good rug man is as quick to talk you out of a repair as into one.
If a rug holds real sentimental weight, the decision is yours to make — but you’ll make it knowing the true cost and the true result, not a sales pitch.
Free assessment, zero pressure
Send us a few details and we’ll collect the rug in Lighthouse Point, look it over, and give you a straight answer on the repair before any work begins.