Rug restoration in Ixelles
We collect rugs for restoration in Ixelles (1050) 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.
- Postcode
- 1050
- From the workshop
- 2 km
- Residents
- 89,162
- Sector
- Immediately south-east, from the porte de Namur to the ponds
What the ground changes
Rug restoration in Ixelles
We repair from the structure outwards: warp and weft, then pile, then colour.
Who lives here
51% of residents are foreign nationals in 2025 — the highest proportion in the Brussels Region. The French form the largest group (11,762 people in 2022), ahead of the Italians (4,736) and the Spanish (2,812). Around 5,675 residents of Ixelles work for an international institution, or one working person in seven.
It is households like these that keep a rug for thirty years and bring it to us when the weft begins to show through.
The rug market
Matongé, between the porte de Namur, the chaussée de Wavre and the galerie d'Ixelles, is the district of the African diasporas in Brussels. Ixelles also has only 5% of its territory in accessible green space, for a density of 13,578 inhabitants/km² (2022): it is a town of narrow, crowded streets, not of gardens where a rug can be spread out.
A piece with value deserves to be restored before it is sold — but not in any old way: a clumsy restoration loses more than it brings in.
The building stock
More than half of the housing stock of Ixelles predates 1919. The Tenbosch–Châtelain district was built for the most part between 1875 and 1905 to a very consistent standard plan: a single-family middle-class house between party walls, a raised basement, two or three reception rooms in enfilade on the first floor (drawing room, dining room, veranda) and a staircase set in the corridor. That is the geometry that made the fortune of the long, narrow rug — and the dread of every collection, because the stairwell turns tight.
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.
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.
Frequently asked questions
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 address is on the avenue Louise but I am registered in Ixelles. Do I really come under your Ixelles sector?
Yes, and the confusion is understandable: since the annexation of 1864, the avenue Louise and the bois de la Cambre have belonged to the City of Brussels and cut Ixelles into two non-contiguous pieces. A house on the avenue Louise therefore carries the code 1000 while the street that runs into it is in 1050. For us that changes nothing about the journey or the price — we cover both sides. What it does change is the parking regime for the van, and that is our concern.
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