Rug buying in Uccle
We buy oriental rugs in Uccle (1180), 6 km from the workshop. Free valuation on site, payment the same day, collection included — cash up to €3,000, instant transfer above that.
- 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 buying in Uccle
Hand-knotted rugs bought in Brussels: valuation from photographs, free collection, immediate payment.
The building stock
The building stock of Uccle is mostly twentieth-century: only 8% predates 1919, 40% dates from between the wars and close to 50% from after 1945. Semi-detached and detached houses are over-represented there. This is the realm of the 1920s and 1930s herringbone parquet and of the large reception rooms that call for rugs of some size.
It is in that building stock that the rugs we buy lie sleeping: interwar attics, formal drawing rooms, landing cupboards.
Damp and water
The Royal Observatory of Belgium settled on the Uccle plateau (the Groeselenberg hill) in 1890-1891, and the Uccle climatological park has served ever since as the reference for Belgian climatology. In other words: when people talk about the climate of Belgium, they are literally talking about the climate measured at Uccle.
A rug left in a damp cellar is not a worthless rug. Do not throw it away before showing it to us: we also buy as it is.
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.
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
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.
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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