Rug buying in Rhode-Saint-Genèse
We buy oriental rugs in Rhode-Saint-Genèse (1640), 14 km from the workshop. Free valuation on site, payment the same day, collection included — cash up to €3,000, instant transfer above that.
- Postcode
- 1640
- From the workshop
- 14 km
- Residents
- 18,693
- Sector
- Southern Flemish outskirts, deep in the forêt de Soignes
What the ground changes
Rug buying in Rhode-Saint-Genèse
Hand-knotted rugs bought in Brussels: valuation from photographs, free collection, immediate payment.
Who lives here
It is the only municipality with language facilities bordering both the Brussels Region and the Walloon Region. About 64% of the population is French-speaking, while the administrative language is Dutch.
That profile rings us to sell more often than elsewhere: people move away, they inherit, they change their lives, and the rug does not follow.
The building stock
The municipality covers 2,277 hectares, of which 55.03% is undeveloped land. Its urbanisation came in three waves: Brussels people settling there at the start of the twentieth century, an active policy of parcelling out land between the wars explicitly aimed at the Brussels bourgeoisie, then large-scale housing estates on farmland after 1945.
It is in that building stock that the rugs we buy lie sleeping: interwar attics, reception rooms, landing cupboards.
The rug market
The median price of a house in Rhode-Saint-Genèse is above €567,000, and the villas in the most closed-off districts go beyond €2 million. These very large plots, behind high walls and gates, are largely passed on within a closed circuit among well-off families. Average price per m²: €3,325, ahead of Waterloo (€3,043) and Braine-l'Alleud (€2,604).
That is the circuit through which a rug changes hands here. We are the direct alternative to it: no waiting, no commission, payment the same day.
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.
Frequently asked questions
Frequently asked questions
Rhode-Saint-Genèse is in Flanders: can I be served in French?
Yes. Rhode-Saint-Genèse (Sint-Genesius-Rode) is a Flemish municipality with language facilities, where about 64% of the residents are French-speaking. We work equally in French, in Dutch or in English, and both the quote and the invoice can be drawn up in the language of your choice. For the collection, we come into properties with a gate and a private drive: you only need to tell us the code or which bell to ring.
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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