Rug restoration in Liège (centre)
We collect the rugs to be restored in Liège (centre) (4000) and bring them back once the work is done. Fringes, selvedges, holes, faded colours, destroyed weft: the diagnosis is free, including when it concludes that nothing should be done.
- Postcode
- 4000 · 4020 · 4030
- From the workshop
- 96 km
- Residents
- 198,044
- Sector
- E40 eastern axis — the Meuse valley
What the ground changes
Rug restoration in Liège (centre)
We repair from the structure outwards: warp and weft, then pile, then colour.
Who lives here
The University of Liège, founded in 1817, has some 20,000 students. The city is also home to sizeable Algerian, Moroccan, Turkish and Vietnamese communities, as well as an Italian community inherited from the Belgian-Italian protocol of 23 June 1946 — which provided for 50,000 Italian workers for the collieries; 75,000 Italians arrived between 1946 and 1948 and were distributed across the coal basins. 65% of the Italians in Belgium live in Wallonia today.
Those are the households that keep a rug for thirty years and bring it to us when the weft begins to speak.
Collection
The historic heart of Liège is a pedestrian zone monitored by ANPR cameras reading the plates of authorised vehicles. The streets concerned are rues Bex, Féronstrée, Cité, place du Marché, Mineurs, Airs, Rose, Pont, Violette, Hongrée, Potiérue, Saint-Thomas, Pied-du-Pont-des-Arches, place Saint-Barthélemy, Saint-Barthélemy, Brasseurs and Poule. Deliveries are allowed there from 9.00 to 11.30; the Tivoli, Ferdinand Hénault, Saint-Georges and Saint-Barthélemy loading bays operate from 7.30 to 11.30, and the loading bays outside the pedestrian zone remain accessible 24 hours a day. Since 1 July 2024, 220 spaces have been reserved for residents in zone G.
We take the rug away to the workshop: restoration is not done in your home. Access therefore governs the date, not the quote.
Damp and water
Floods on the night of 14 to 15 July 2021. Within the territory of the City of Liège alone: 13,780 people affected, spread across the districts of Jupille, Chênée and Angleur (L'Avenir adds Outremeuse); 4,848 buildings hit, that is 6,556 homes and 350 shops or professional practices; the water rose 1 to 1.80 m in homes and businesses; Angleur is the worst affected, with some forty streets. More than 40,000 m³ of waste removed, 2,500 vehicles destroyed, 35 km of roads damaged, 7 km of them severely. Five years on, the City is preparing a 7.5-hectare temporary flood storage area at Chênée, costed at €50 million.
Damp is the leading cause of heavy restoration: it attacks the back, makes the backing glues give way and prepares the ground for moths.
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 rug was left in a flooded cellar — in Angleur, Chênée or Outremeuse: can it still be saved?
Often yes, if you act quickly and do not let it dry rolled up. During the floods of July 2021 the water rose 1 to 1.80 m in homes in Jupille, Chênée and Angleur, and a wool rug soaked with muddy water breaks down from the back, not from the surface: it is the selvedges, the weft and the backing glues that give way first. We collect the wet rug, rinse it, dry it flat under tension and treat the mould before judging what restoration is possible — the diagnosis is free, including when it concludes that the rug cannot be saved.
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