Where the real cleaning takes place
Your rug leaves a restored mid-century living room off Wilton Drive or a canal-side den on the Middle River, gets washed properly in our plant, and comes home the way the weaver meant it to look. Free pickup and delivery across the Island City and all of Broward — you never fold it into the car.
We pick the rug up, look it over, and set the price before any work starts.
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The case for a real rug plant
We hear it in Wilton Manors homes all the time. The terrazzo and tile floors already have a service booked, and the good rug anchoring the room seems like it could tag along on the same visit.
Yet a wall-to-wall carpet and a hand-knotted rug are opposites in how they should be handled. Carpet is stretched and fixed to the floor, built to be scrubbed where it lies. A fine rug is a loose textile — wool or silk pile knotted onto a cotton foundation, colored with dyes that were never meant to sit under a hot extraction wand.
Clean a good rug where it lies and three quiet problems begin: the fine grit stays trapped in the foundation, the dyes can creep, and the rug dries slowly against the slab. In an Island City wrapped by the Middle River, that lingering dampness is precisely how browning and a sour smell start.
A rug that grounds an entire room has earned a real bath, not a quick pass.
So we do it the older, patient way in our own plant: measured, tested, dusted, washed with a natural pH shampoo, and speed-dried in a controlled room. Wool, silk, antique, Navajo, shag — the whole process is spelled out here.
And when a rug honestly doesn’t need the plant — a newer synthetic that’s fine to freshen at home — we’ll say so and spare you the pickup.
Wool, silk & everything hand-knotted
Different fibers and dyes ask for different handling — the very reason testing comes first. Each rug here moves through one identical in-plant sequence: measured, pH and dye checked, deep-dusted, washed, then speed-dried.
A hand-knotted Oriental is a textile, not carpet. It deserves a full bath in the plant — not a hot wand hauled across it on your Florida room floor.
See the process →Vegetable-dyed antique Persians can run in water. We towel-test each one for dye stability in a hidden corner and ease off the wash for the pieces that ask for it.
How we test →Wool is a protein fiber, and the harsh alkaline mixes used on carpet leave it dull and brittle. Our shampoo stays inside the pH range wool can safely take.
See the wash →Delicate silks get gentler tools and a lighter hand through the wash, then the same controlled speed-dry that keeps their sheen bright and their colors sharp.
See the process →Washing an antique leans closer to conservation than cleaning. If a full wash would do more harm than good, we tell you that before you spend a dollar.
Restoration too →Navajo and flatwoven rugs are dye-tested before a drop of water reaches them, then washed and dried quickly so those bold, banded colors stay exactly in place.
See the process →Dusting matters most on shag — grit sinks to the base of that long pile, and it has to be drawn out completely before the rug ever meets water.
Why dusting first →One-of-a-kind and custom-cut rugs are washed to match how they were built — and once yours is clean we can cut a protective pad to fit it exactly.
Ask about yours →Collected, cleaned, returned
We measure the rug, note wear, spots and any repair needs, then run pH and dye-stability tests. You get the exact price before anything else moves forward.
Pounds of dry grit hide below the pile — and life near the river and the parks tracks in plenty. We beat and vacuum it all out before the wash begins.
A full submersion wash with natural pH shampoo, keyed to the fiber and its dyes. Easy on tender wool and silk, unrelenting on ground-in soil and grime.
Into our temperature and humidity managed drying room. Fast, even drying is what keeps one color from creeping into the next during our humid months.
Pile brushed, fringe combed, one final look — then home it goes. Pickup and delivery stays free right across Broward County.
Pricing, the honest way
Because the fiber and the way a rug is built, not its square footage, decide the work — two rugs of the same size can still call for completely different care.
A machine-made 8×10 in decent shape is a plain wash. The same size hand-knotted rug with unstable dyes, years of packed-in grit and a pet accident in one corner is a whole different job.
What actually sets the price: measured size, fiber and construction, dye stability, soil level, pet contamination, and whether the fringe or edges need a repair.
So we look first, then price — a single time, before anything begins.
That look-over costs nothing, and the figure we write down when the rug goes onto the truck in Coral Estates or off Wilton Drive is the figure you settle — set once, at your door, never coupon-padded, never guessed over the phone, and never sprung on you at delivery.
Done by hand, in-house
Anything we spot at inspection gets a straight recommendation: fix it, leave it, or — if the repair would run more than the rug is worth — skip it. Every repair is done by hand, by us, and never sent out. See the repair work →
The Island City’s rug plant since 2006
When you call, you reach the people who will actually handle your rug — before, during and after the work. Nothing is subcontracted, and nothing is trucked off to a wholesaler you’ll never meet.
Much of what we do comes from Wilton Manors households we’ve looked after for years, and the neighbors they send our way.
No surprises
We measure, examine and run the pH and dye tests up front. You have the exact price in hand before any work starts.
Your rug is handled in-house from the first step to the last — never subcontracted, never shipped out of the area.
Most rugs return in roughly a week. If repairs add days, you learn it at the inspection — never at delivery.
Free pickup and delivery reaches every corner of Broward County. We call the moment your rug is ready and set a time that suits your day.
Our bench, our work
Straight answers
We come to you — there is nothing to bring in. Free pickup and delivery runs across the whole Island City, from Coral Estates and Wilton Manors East to the Middle River waterfront and the townhomes off Wilton Drive, plus neighboring Fort Lauderdale and Oakland Park. We collect the rug at your door and return it once the work is done.
A hand-knotted rug is a free-standing textile, not carpet bonded to the slab. Cleaned in place under a hot wand, grit stays packed in the foundation, the dyes can travel, and the rug dries slowly against your terrazzo. In our river-town humidity that slow drying is how browning and a musty edge take hold. It belongs flat in a wash pit.
We test before we wash — every time. Each rug gets a pre-inspection with a pH reading and a dye-stability check in a hidden corner, because some older vegetable-dyed pieces will bleed if they meet water carelessly. If yours reads as a bleed risk, we change the method and show you what we found before anything gets wet.
We price after the inspection, never before. Measured size, fiber, construction, dye stability, how deep the soil sits, any pet contamination and any repairs all change what a rug needs, so a phone figure would only mislead you. When we collect the rug we examine it and give you the exact price before a single step of cleaning begins.
Usually, yes. Urine dries into alkaline salts buried in the foundation, and blotting the surface never reaches them, so we submerge and flush the entire rug to rinse them away. Old or repeated accidents can resist, and we give you an honest read at the inspection about what result is realistic before you commit to the work. Read more on pet odor removal.
Yes, and every repair is worked by hand at our own bench, never shipped out. That includes fringe repair and replacement, side and edge overcasting, hole repair and reweaving, moth damage, dry rot, resizing and full restoration. If a repair would cost more than the rug is worth, we tell you plainly instead of selling you the work.
Most rugs come home in roughly a week. The wash is followed by controlled speed-drying in a room where temperature and humidity are managed, and that careful drying is exactly what keeps the colors from migrating, so we never rush it. Rugs that also need hand repairs take a little longer, and you get an honest timeline up front.
Free pre-inspection, zero pressure
Share a few details and we’ll set up a free pickup — then tell you honestly what your rug actually needs.
From dusting to drying, in our plant.