Entirely by hand, since 1950.
You can have your rug cleaned in Paris by Tapis Boeuf, a family atelier founded in 1950 whose four generations wash the capital's finest rugs by hand. Our rug cleaning Paris service includes free pickup and delivery across every arrondissement, and each rug is washed flat at our workshop in Sartrouville, 20 minutes from central Paris. Wool from €50/m², silk from €89/m².
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4 generations
Craftsmanship since 1950
— Rug cleaning in Paris
Few cities hold as many fine rugs as Paris. Hand-knotted oriental rugs brought home from postings abroad, Persian pieces passed down through families, silks from the antique dealers of the Left Bank, kilims in Marais lofts. City dust, the dry heat of Haussmann apartments and daily footsteps dull them all. Since 1950, Tapis Boeuf — a family atelier now in its fourth generation — has washed these rugs entirely by hand, collecting each piece at your door within 48 hours, from the embassies of the 7th to the international households of the 16th and Neuilly-sur-Seine.
Whatever arrives at the atelier meets the same workshop protocol, part of our complete artisan rug cleaning service: a thorough dust beating to shake the grit packed at the foot of the knots, a dye-bleed test run on every colour, then a flat wash in clear, pH-neutral water — no solvent, no machine — followed by an unhurried dry over 72 to 96 hours. Where an industrial drum — the ordinary carpet-cleaning route — bruises wool and fixes stains, the hand keeps fibre, dye and value intact. Wool opens at €50 per m², silk at €89 per m²; stains and repairs are named in a free quote.
Silk or wool, a Persian heirloom off avenue Foch or a contemporary designer rug from a Left-Bank gallery: each is handled to the measure of its own fragility, with over 75 years of expertise steadying every gesture.
« A fine rug is not simply washed — it is cared for. »
— Why Tapis Boeuf
A rug lifted from a Haussmann salon d'apparat in the 8th never meets a machine under our roof. It is coaxed free of grit, bathed flat in pH-neutral water, rinsed until the water runs clear and dried at its own pace — the same sequence a family atelier founded in 1950 has passed from father to son across four generations. That is the rug cleaning Paris standard we have never once let slip, whether the piece arrives from an ambassador's residence or a fourth-floor pied-à-terre.
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Clear water, plant-based soaps and a soft natural-bristle brush — that is the whole toolkit. No solvent, no rotating drum. The wool of an inherited Passy Persian keeps its spring, and the wash stays honest season after season.
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Vegetable soaps, dyes re-fixed the way our grandfather fixed them and a non-toxic moth guard: forgiving on a silk that carries a century of patina, and safe on the floor of a family flat where children and a cat share the same room.
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Photographed and logged the instant it lifts off your parquet ancien, insured from landing to landing, and returned with a written condition report in hand. Nothing is left to chance, and every rug cleaning Paris commission is guaranteed in writing.
— Inside the workshop
Three unhurried minutes filmed at our workshop in Sartrouville, 20 minutes from central Paris — the bench where these same movements have passed from father to son since 1950.
Family workshop · 20 minutes from central Paris
— Your rug
What a sturdy wool shrugs off, a fine silk will punish you for. Tell us which fibre lies across your parquet and we will name the wash it truly asks for. Every rug cleaning Paris commission opens with a reading of the fibre itself, before a drop of water is drawn.
By material
4 specialities · fibres
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Precious fibre
Isfahan and Qom silks: up to 1,000 knots per dm², washed flat in pure water, from €89/m².
Our silk method →
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Natural fibre
Sarouk and Kirman wools: dense pile washed by hand, colours revived, from €50/m².
Our wool method →
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Hand-knotted heritage
Persian, Turkish, Caucasian and Afghan pieces: dyes tested one by one, washed colour by colour — our speciality since 1950.
Our oriental method →
IV.
Collection pieces
Tabriz and Kashan heirlooms, often over a century old: patina preserved, museum-grade dusting, gentle work from the reverse.
Our antique method →
I · Fibre
Precious fibre
Our method →
II · Fibre
Natural fibre
Our method →
III · Heritage
Hand-knotted heritage
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IV · Heritage
Collection pieces
Our method →Click a material to see our method
Fine silks — an Isfahan, or a Hereke carried home from a Left-Bank antiquaire — lie flat and are washed by hand in pH-neutral water only once every dye has been tested; a heavy hand robs them of their sheen in seconds. From €89 per m². Our full method for silk →
Wool, the fibre beneath most Paris drawing rooms, takes a deep clean gladly: grit beaten from the knots, a bath in clear water, then 72 to 96 h of flat drying that draws the embedded boulevard dust up and out. From €50 per m². Our full method for wool →
Rugs knotted by hand in Persia, Anatolia, the Caucasus or Afghanistan carry vegetable dyes a machine would bleed into one another; we prove each shade first, then wash it colour after separate colour. Our full method for oriental rugs →
Inherited rugs and finds knocked down at Drouot or the Puces call for a measured wash: read from the reverse, their patina left wholly intact, never near a drum. Collection pieces are quoted one at a time. Our full method for antiques →
Hand-knotted oriental rugs have been our first craft since 1950. Diplomats beside the embassies of the 7th and 8th, dealers off the rue de Bretagne in the Marais and old Passy families bring us the same treasures — Sarouk, Bidjar, Heriz, Tabriz — every one washed flat, by hand, colour by separate colour once the dye-bleed test is passed. For Persian rug cleaning, Paris owners of a Nain, a Qom or an Isfahan follow a protocol dedicated to Persian rugs.
Everything about our oriental rug cleaning →Rug not listed? Our rug cleaning Paris service also cares for Moroccan, Chinese and kilim pieces.
Ask for a personalised quote →— Targeted service
A mishap in a Paris apartment seldom chooses its moment: a glass of red knocked over at a dinner in the 7th, coffee, ink, a puppy's accident, a smear of grease. Stain removal sits inside every rug cleaning Paris commission — each mark lifted by hand, on a protocol read from the fibre and its dye outward.
Stains we treat
The sooner you call,
the more completely the stain disappears.
Advice from the workshop
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Treated piece
Persian rug · red wine stain · treated within 24 h
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— Our method
The same six-step protocol governs every piece, from a Marais kilim to an avenue Foch silk: we call at your door within 48 h, work the rug by hand through six stages at the atelier, then carry it back up to the very same landing. This is the rug cleaning Paris method laid out in full — unchanged since 1950.
Step 01
On the beating grid, patient passes shake loose the fine street grit that Haussmann windows let settle deep in the knots — never pulling on a single fibre.
Step 02
Spread flat on the wash floor, the rug takes a pH-neutral bath by hand, the vegetable soap picked to suit its fibre — a silk pile, a wool field, or a cotton foundation beneath.
Step 03
One clear-water rinse gives way to the next until the very last of the soap is carried off — no residue left to dull the field or grey the ivories.
Step 04
The piece dries flat under a steady temperature for 72 to 96 h, the timing set by its thickness: nothing rushed, so the weave neither shrinks nor takes on a watermark.
Step 05
The old vegetable dyes wake again — madder, indigo, gall nut — so a Sarouk red regains its depth and the blue of a Tabriz picks up every half-tone it had lost.
Step 06
Pile combed straight, fringes re-tensioned, a moth guard worked in where the piece needs it — then the rug rides back to any arrondissement, or out to Neuilly and the leafy western suburbs.
— House formulations
Radiators on full through a Haussmann winter, the dust of the boulevards, a cat curled on the sofa — on request, three formulations blended on our own bench meet each threat in turn. Any one of them slips into a rug cleaning Paris commission with no extra charge for transport.
A fully natural bench blend of plants and essential oils. It sees off dust mites and the moths that thrive in warm Paris flats, leaving fibre and dye untouched and the room safe for children and pets.
An invisible barrier for delicate fibres: a glass of Bordeaux tipped at dinner, coffee or grease beads on the surface instead of sinking in, while colour and suppleness stay exactly as they were.
A clear filter that slows the fading and yellowing caused by the flood of daylight through tall Haussmann windows and glazed doors. Indispensable on silk and antique wool; it lasts 3 to 5 years.
— From the workshop log
Case I · 7th arrondissement
A diplomatic household near the rue de Varenne called the morning after a reception: red wine across a finely knotted silk Qom. Collected within 48 hours; every dye tested, the stain treated from both sides, the piece washed flat. Four weeks later it was back under the dining table, the ivory field unmarked.
Case II · Neuilly-sur-Seine
A family in Neuilly-sur-Seine, preparing a move to London, entrusted us with a 19th-century Tabriz never professionally washed. Beating released decades of fine grey dust; the wash revived madder reds no one in the family had ever seen. An anti-moth treatment and a condition report completed the commission.
— The results speak
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Kashan · silk
Silk revived · Île Saint-Louis apartment (4th)
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Tabriz · wool
Colours revived · plaine Monceau apartment (17th)
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Qom · pure silk
Exceptional piece · avenue Foch collection (16th)
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Tribal kilim
Wine stain removed · reception in the Marais (3rd)
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Heriz · wool
Wash + moth treatment · Saint-Germain-des-Prés (6th)
— They trusted us with their rugs
★★★★★ 4.9 / 5 · 148 Google reviews
Impeccable from start to finish. They collected our two rugs in the 16th and returned them looking new.
True craftsmen. Our antique Heriz came back with colours we had never seen — and collection really was free.
I hesitated to send a very delicate silk Isfahan. It was handled with remarkable care, insured and photographed at every step.
— Frequently asked questions
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— Areas we serve
Our coverage
We call at home in every arrondissement — the international households of the 16th, the embassies of the 7th and 8th, the antique dealers around Drouot, the lofts of the Marais, Saint-Germain-des-Prés — and out across the western suburbs: Neuilly-sur-Seine, Boulogne-Billancourt, Levallois and Vincennes. Whatever the address, rug cleaning Paris pickups run to one and the same timetable.
Each rug cleaning Paris pickup rides with a courier trained to handle works of art: your rug is photographed, insured and tracked from one door to the other. Clients who prefer English are looked after in English from the first call to the final delivery.
Free pickup and delivery,
anywhere in France.
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Family atelier · since 1950
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— Our other services in Paris
Fringes, edges, holes, reweaving, colour restoration.
Learn more → HeritageConservation-grade repair, knot by knot, patina preserved.
Learn more → TapestryAubusson, Flanders and Gobelins pieces, museum-grade care.
Learn more →— Entrust us with your rug
Answer within 48 h · Free pickup and delivery · Guaranteed work
Reach 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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Free quote and free collection
anywhere in France.
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