Rug restoration in Uccle
We collect the rugs to be restored in Uccle (1180) 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
- 1180
- From the workshop
- 6 km
- Residents
- 87,548
- Sector
- South of Brussels, between the Dieweg and the edge of the Forêt de Soignes
What the ground changes
Rug restoration in Uccle
We repair from the structure towards the surface: warp and weft, then pile, then colour.
The rug market
Uccle is a marketplace in its own right. The Hôtel de Ventes Vanderkindere stands at chaussée d'Alsemberg 685-687, one of the large Brussels salerooms, open Monday to Friday for valuations; and the Brocante de Fort Jaco brings together around 500 second-hand dealers on the last Sunday of August each year on the chaussée de Waterloo, between avenue Alphonse XIII and avenue Van Bever. Many Uccle rugs pass through one or the other — or through a direct sale to a buyer, when the seller wants neither the delay nor the commission.
A piece that has value deserves to be restored before it is sold — but not in any old way: a clumsy restoration loses more than it brings in.
Collection
Since 1 May 2023 Uccle has applied revised rules: the former red zones have been converted into orange zones, judged better suited to an outer-belt municipality, and around half of the parking spaces in Uccle remain unregulated. It is the most comfortable municipality in the Brussels Region for a collection — but also the most stretched out: 22.9 km², or 14% of the regional territory, the second largest area in the Region after the City of Brussels, with close to a fifth of the accessible green space in Brussels.
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
12% of Uccle residents are French nationals and 33% of the population is foreign (2022); 19% of residents are 65 or over, against a regional average of 13%. The European School Brussels I has its main site in Uccle. An elderly, home-owning population on one side, international families on the other: the two profiles that generate the most estates and the most rug buying.
It is households like these that keep a rug for thirty years and bring it to us when the weft starts 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.
I have inherited a house in Uccle with several old rugs: is it better to go through a saleroom or to sell directly?
Uccle has the particularity of housing the Hôtel de Ventes Vanderkindere, chaussée d'Alsemberg, which makes the question very concrete here. A public sale can push a rare piece higher, but it means a wait of several weeks, a commission and no guarantee of the final price. Selling directly gives you a valuation on the spot and cash payment the same day, including for the entire contents of a house. We travel free of charge throughout the town to value, and we tell you frankly when a piece is better off in the saleroom.
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