Rug buying in Rixensart
We buy oriental rugs in Rixensart (1330), 26 km from the workshop. Free valuation on site, payment the same day, collection included — cash up to €3,000, instant transfer above that.
- Postcode
- 1330 · 1331 · 1332
- From the workshop
- 26 km
- Residents
- 23,096
- Sector
- The Lasne valley, the line 161 axis and the lac de Genval
What the ground changes
Rug buying in Rixensart
Hand-knotted rugs bought in Brussels: valuation from photographs, free collection, immediate payment.
The building stock
53% of Rixensart's building stock consists of detached houses (2023 data) — the highest proportion recorded by the Maison de l'urbanisme du Brabant wallon, while the town is at the same time one of the densest in the province (1,315 inhabitants/km²).
It is in that building stock that the rugs we buy lie sleeping: interwar attics, formal drawing rooms, landing cupboards.
The rug market
The château de Rixensart has belonged to the de Merode family since 1715 and is still lived in by them; its wings are dated 1631, 1648 and 1660, the estate covers around 130 hectares and its gardens are based on a design by André Le Nôtre. It passed in 2018 to the Fondation Merode-Rixensart.
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.
Who lives here
Average income per resident: €25,335 (2021 assessment year), third in Walloon Brabant. The town is home to officials of international institutions and to managers of Brussels companies. Median price of a house in 2024: €395,000.
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 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
I have to clear a villa in the lac de Genval district after a death: what should I do with the rugs?
Many of the houses in the district around the lake date from the Belle Époque — the lake was filled in 1903-1904 — and often contain oriental rugs bought between 1900 and 1950, sometimes rolled up for decades. We come out on site for a free valuation, including for pieces that are dusty, faded or attacked by moths: condition does not rule out value. We buy for cash and take the rugs away the same day, which saves you storing them while the estate is being settled.
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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