Rug buying in Etterbeek
We buy oriental rugs in Etterbeek (1040), 3 km from the workshop. Free valuation on the spot, payment the same day, collection included — cash up to €3,000, instant transfer above that.
- Postcode
- 1040
- From the workshop
- 3 km
- Residents
- 49,638
- Sector
- Immediately east, on the edge of the European quarter and the Cinquantenaire
What the ground changes
Rug buying in Etterbeek
Hand-knotted rugs bought in Brussels: valuation from photographs, free collection, immediate payment.
The building stock
54% of Etterbeek's building stock predates 1919: these are the three-bay Brussels houses, often divided into flats. More than two thirds of households are tenants. The original stairwells, narrow and quarter-turning, dictate the way a rug leaves the building.
It is in that building stock that the rugs we buy lie sleeping: interwar attics, reception rooms, landing cupboards.
Collection
3.2 km² for 15,290 residents per km² (2022), twice the regional density, and only 4% of the territory in accessible green space: Etterbeek is one of the densest municipalities in the Brussels Region. Narrow streets, unbroken lines of parked cars, no room to manoeuvre — a collection is prepared, it is not improvised.
Buying a rug is not just a valuation: it is also thirty kilos of rug to get out of your home. We settle that point before we come.
Damp and water
The town's very name comes from "beek", the stream. The Maelbeek rises in what are now Ixelles and Etterbeek and was vaulted over in 1872, precisely because the steep slopes of its basin caused sudden floods and endangered public health. The streets at the bottom of that valley are still the ones where cellars take in water.
A rug left in a damp cellar is not a worthless rug. Do not throw it away before showing it to us: we also buy as it is.
The division is simple and it rules things out: we buy what is hand-knotted, knot by knot on a loom. A machine-made rug comes out of a machine; a tufted one is punched into a backing cloth and then glued. Neither of them has collectors' value, and no specialist buyer takes them.
Within our field: Persians (Tabriz, Kashan, Heriz, Qom, Bidjar, Baluch), Anatolians, Caucasians, Afghans with guls, silk rugs, flat-woven kilims and whole estate lots. A Berber with a long pile is a decorative piece: we will look at it, with no promise in advance.
Frequently asked questions
Frequently asked questions
My street is in the green zone in Etterbeek. Where will your van be able to park to load the rug?
In the Etterbeek green zone, a non-resident vehicle has 4 hours 30 at most from Monday to Saturday, with the first quarter of an hour free — ample time to load one or more rugs. The point to watch is rather the red zone on the shopping streets, limited to 2 hours, and the place Jourdan where stopping is cut to 30 minutes. Tell us your exact address when you book: we adjust the time of our visit and, if necessary, park in an adjacent street in the green zone to avoid any risk of a charge.
Do you buy machine-made rugs?
No. A machine-woven or tufted rug has no collectors' value and finds no specialist buyer. The close-up of the knotting is enough to settle it: on a hand-knotted rug, every knot is visible on the back and the design appears sharp there; on a machine-made one, the back is smooth, regular, often backed with a glued cloth.
My rug is moth-eaten and stained. Is it still worth anything?
Yes, in most cases. The larva eats the keratin in the wool, not the cotton of the warp: the structure holds, and a moth-eaten area can be re-knotted. The rug keeps its origin, its density and its age, that is to say the essence of what makes its price. Do not throw it away before showing it to us.
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