Rug restoration in Overijse
We collect the rugs to be restored in Overijse (3090) 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
- 3090
- From the workshop
- 19 km
- Residents
- 25,970
- Sector
- Druivenstreek — grape country, between the forêt de Soignes and the E411
What the ground changes
Rug restoration in Overijse
We repair from the structure outwards: warp and weft, then pile, then colour.
The local setting
Jezus-Eik / Notre-Dame-au-Bois is wedged between the E411 Brussels–Namur motorway on one side and the forêt de Soignes on the other. Its baroque pilgrimage church was built by Jacques Francquart (choir 1650, nave 1667) around the legend of an oak struck by lightning; the hamlet lives today off its restaurants, including one with a star.
That context explains a good part of what we see arriving at the workshop from this town.
Collection
19 km by road from the centre of Brussels, via the E411, which runs along the edge of the municipality at Jezus-Eik. The lac de Genval, at the other end of the municipality, is shared with Rixensart.
We take the rug away to the workshop: restoration is not done in your home. Access therefore governs the date, not the quote.
Who lives here
Average net taxable income per tax return: €53,027 (2022 assessment year), a level comparable to that of Sint-Genesius-Rode (€53,592). The humanist Justus Lipsius was born in Overijse in the sixteenth century.
Those are the households that keep a rug for thirty years and bring it to us when the weft begins to speak.
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.
Werkt u ook in het Nederlands in Overijse? / Do you also work in Dutch in Overijse?
Ja. Overijse is een Vlaamse gemeente zonder taalfaciliteiten : de administratieve taal is het Nederlands. Wij werken in het Nederlands, het Frans en het Engels, wat hier logisch is omdat de gemeente in 2023 nog 4 389 expats telde. Voor een ophaling in Jezus-Eik, Maleizen, Terlanen of Tombeek geldt dezelfde postcode 3090 en hetzelfde tarief.
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