Rug restoration in Grez-Doiceau

We collect rugs for restoration in Grez-Doiceau (1390) and bring them back once the work is done. Fringes, selvedges, holes, faded colours, a destroyed weft: the diagnosis is free, including when it concludes that nothing should be done.

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Postcode: 1390
From the workshop: 38 km
Residents: 14,064
Sector: East of Walloon Brabant, valleys of the Train, the Dyle and the Nethen

A converted farm: exposed roof timbers, whitewashed walls, stone floor, a small deep window, a rug on the stone

What the ground changes

Rug restoration in Grez-Doiceau

We repair from the structure outwards: warp and weft, then pile, then colour.

The building stock

The municipality is made up of twelve villages and hamlets — Archennes and Florival, Biez, Bossut, Cocrou, Doiceau, Gastuche, Gottechain, Grez-centre, Hèze, Morsaint-Royenne, Nethen, Pécrot — whose heritage includes "numerous châteaux, chapels and farms". Among the listed buildings are the château de Florival and its grounds, the former château de la Motte, the church of Saint-Georges with its organ and its forecourt, and the presbytery.

The building stock dictates the wear: a rug laid in the corridor of a Brussels house does not wear like one in the drawing room of a villa. The selvedges go first where people walk.

The local setting

At least six equestrian centres are recorded on the territory of Grez-Doiceau.

That context explains a good part of what we see arriving at the workshop from this town.

Collection

38 km by road from the centre of Brussels, making it the most distant town from our workshop (about 38 minutes). Access is by the E411 then the N25 Leuven–Nivelles, which crosses the municipality at Gastuche under the name chaussée de Wavre.

We take the rug to the workshop: restoration is not carried out in your home. Access therefore governs the date, not the quote.

A hand-knotted rug rests on three things. The warp: the threads held taut lengthwise, from one end of the loom to the other. The weft: the threads passed across after each row of knots. Together they form the foundation. The pile — what the hand touches — is only the visible part of the knots tied onto that foundation.

The order of the repairs follows from this architecture. Re-knotting pile over a broken weft is like laying tiles on a floor that moves: the area will open up again. So we rebuild the warp and the weft first, we re-knot the pile next, and we touch the colour only last, once the relief has come back up to height.

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Frequently asked questions

Does the rug have to be washed before it is restored?

Almost always. The mineral dust shut in at the base of the pile cuts the fibres with every step and throws off the colour matching. Hand washing therefore comes before restoration — except where an area is at risk of tearing when handled: that one is made safe first.

How do I obtain a valuation?

From photographs, to be sent by e-mail or by message: the whole rug laid flat, the back, and a close-up of each damaged area with a coin or a tape measure for scale. We reply with a costing within 48 working hours.

My rugs have been stored for years in a farm cellar in Nethen: can they still be saved?

Often yes, but they have to be seen. Grez-Doiceau is a rural town nearly 80% undeveloped, set in the valleys of the Train, the Dyle and the Nethen: farm cellars there are cool and damp, which causes mould on the back, a musty smell and moth attacks in the wool. We come out to unwrap them, diagnose them and tell you what needs no more than a wash, what calls for restoration and what we would buy as it stands — a badly damaged rug can still be a piece of value.

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