Rug buying in Grez-Doiceau

We buy oriental rugs in Grez-Doiceau (1390), 38 km from the workshop. Free valuation at your home, payment the same day, collection included — cash up to €3,000, instant transfer above that.

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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

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Rug buying in Grez-Doiceau

Hand-knotted rugs bought in Brussels: valuation from photographs, free collection, immediate payment.

The building stock

Grez-Doiceau covers 5,544 hectares for only 14,064 residents, with 79.21% of land undeveloped against 12.48% built up. It is by far the most rural and the least dense of the towns we cover, described locally as the "Brabant Ardennes".

It is in that building stock that the rugs we buy lie sleeping: interwar attics, reception rooms, landing cupboards.

Who lives here

Average income per resident: €25,070 (2021 tax year), fourth in Walloon Brabant, just behind Rixensart (€25,335) and Waterloo (€25,911), and well above the Walloon average (€19,192).

People of that profile call to sell more often than elsewhere: they move away, they inherit, they change their life, and the rug does not follow.

The local setting

The municipality is watered by three watercourses — the Dyle, the Train (a tributary of the Dyle) and the Nethen — and part of its territory is classified Natura 2000 for its biological value.

The setting matters: it is what explains which rugs arrived here, and through which families.

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.

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Frequently asked questions

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.

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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