Yes — oriental rugs can be repaired, almost always invisibly: our oriental rug repair atelier rebuilds Turkish, Caucasian, Turkmen and Afghan rugs, as well as kilims (rugs woven flat, with no knotted pile), until the damage disappears into the weave. At Tapis Boeuf, a family atelier founded in 1950, each piece is mended with the knot, the wool and the dyes of its own weaving tradition. 10-year guarantee.
Guaranteed 10 years
On every repair
Master hands
Weavers, dyers, binders
Easy payment
Up to 12 instalments, 0% interest
Door to door
Pickup & return, free of charge
— Judge for yourself
No pile to hide behind: on a kilim, every mended weft shows on both faces. Slide to judge the work yourself.
Restored at the bench
Tribal Anatolian kilim · flat-woven · slits, wefts and ends rebuilt
— What sets the atelier apart
Reason 01
Turkish and Caucasian rugs are tied with the Ghiordes knot (a symmetrical knot wrapped around two warp threads — the lengthwise threads of the rug). We reproduce the knot your rug was born with, never a generic stitch.
Reason 02
From a silk Hereke to a nomad kilim, every repair is guaranteed for 10 years — the atelier’s signature commitment.
Reason 03
National museums and specialist insurers entrust the atelier with Anatolian, Caucasian and Central Asian weavings.
Reason 04
Your floor never stays bare: we lend you a rug free of charge for as long as yours is at the bench.
Reviews translated from French.
Alain DemaillyVisited May 2026
Our Hereke rug has been given a new lease of life. Colours brightened, edges restored, fringes rebuilt — truly professional work. Alain and Josy
Martine PujolVisited April 2026
A thoroughly professional company: deadlines kept, and a magnificent clean and repair of our thick-pile Tunisian rug. Colours revived, fringes remade, everything mended — a rug returned as new. Thank you!
Jean-Claude BourgoinVisited May 2026
We have just taken delivery of our rug after restoration. We are very pleased with the work carried out and with the way we were looked after. Bravo — a company to recommend.
Geneviève DupontVisited April 2026
Our rug has just come home and it looks like new. Thank you for the work — a very capable team, with a true expert at its head. We are completely satisfied. Geneviève and Bernard
— Filmed at the bench
Watch the gestures behind every repair — reknotting, selvedge wrapping, weft work and vegetal dye baths, filmed at the bench.
An Iranian Tabriz on the bench, filmed in our Sartrouville atelier
— The right gesture for each weave
A Kazak is not mended like a Bokhara, and a kilim is not mended like a knotted rug. Six techniques, chosen piece by piece.
Gesture 01
A hole is rebuilt from nothing: new warp and weft (the crosswise threads) recreate the foundation (the hidden grid that carries every knot) — the heart of our rug reweaving service.
Gesture 02
Worn or moth-eaten pile (the velvet surface of a knotted rug) is reknotted in hand-dyed wool — symmetrical or asymmetrical, to match the original exactly.
Gesture 03
A kilim carries its pattern in the weft itself. We close opened slits (the small gaps where two colours meet), reweave broken passages and rebuild the flat ends.
Gesture 04
Selvedges (the reinforced woven side edges) are rewrapped cord by cord, in wool or goat hair, following the edge style of each region.
Gesture 05
Fringes are the exposed ends of the warp. We reknot, braid or web them to the original finish — the craft of our rug fringe repair bench.
Gesture 06
Bleached or faded zones are retouched with madder, indigo and walnut husk, matched shade by shade to each region’s palette. Never a synthetic overdye.
— One name, many origins
Anatolia, the Caucasus, Turkestan and the Afghan plains,
repaired the way they were woven.
The traditions
The word “oriental” shelters very different rugs: finely knotted Turkish Hereke and honey-toned Oushak; bold, geometric Caucasian Kazak and Shirvan; deep-red Afghan Bokhara and Khal Mohammadi; Turkmen tribal weavings with their repeating guls (octagonal tribal medallions).
Each school dictates its own repair — knot, wool, edge finish, palette. Reading those signatures is the first act of sound oriental rug repair, and the standard behind every rug repair service in our workshop. For Persian rugs specifically, see our dedicated Persian rug repair page.
The structures
A knotted rug wears a velvet of clipped knots; a kilim is flat-woven, its pattern built directly by the coloured weft, leaving narrow slits where two colours meet. Two structures, two crafts.
That difference decides everything at the bench: Turkish rug repair means reknotting at the original density, while kilim repair is tapestry work — weft rewoven on both faces, with no pile to hide behind. We practise both under one roof, with natural vegetal dyes composed in the workshop.
“An oriental rug remembers where it was woven.
Our repairs answer in the same language —
knot for knot, weft for weft.”
— Atelier Tapis Boeuf
Show us your rug — the assessment is free →— How it unfolds
Stage 01
Send photos of the damage or bring the rug in. We identify origin, structure and knot, and tell you honestly what the piece needs.
Stage 02
Costed line by line, without obligation; up to 12 instalments, interest-free, on larger work.
Stage 03
Free pickup and delivery across France and neighbouring countries, with a courtesy rug lent on request.
Stage 04
Before the bench, the bath: the gentle hand wash of our oriental rug cleaning service reveals the true state of foundation and dyes.
Stage 05
Reknotting, kilim weft work, selvedge and fringe rebuilding — each gesture in the tradition of the rug’s own region, with photo updates.
Stage 06
Pile clipped level, wefts beaten home, colours checked in daylight and under magnification. The repair must vanish.
Stage 07
Returned to your door with its repair certificate — every repair signed and guaranteed for 10 years.
— Our signature
Hereke or Kazak, Bokhara or kilim: every repair is guaranteed for 10 years, backed by over 75 years of expertise at the same family bench.
Should a repaired area ever give way, the rug returns to the workshop and we make it good, at no cost to you.
Guarantee
10
years
on every repair
we sign
— Before you ask
One question left? The workshop picks up:
— Your rug, our bench
48-hour reply · Collection included · Guaranteed 10 years
Contact us
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+33 (0)6 17 59 32 54Workshop
+33 (0)9 50 91 88 85Address
38 rue de l'Îlot
78500 Sartrouville, France
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