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Rug repair,
by hand since 1950.

Yes — a damaged rug can almost always be repaired: artisan rug repair rebuilds fringes, edges, holes, burns, worn pile and faded colors entirely by hand. At the Tapis Boeuf family atelier, founded in 1950, qualified restorer-weavers work thread by thread, knot by knot — every repair covered by a 10-year guarantee.

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  • ✦ Qualified restorer-weavers
  • ✦ 10-year guarantee
  • ✦ Loan rug while we work
  • ✦ 12 interest-free instalments

10-year guarantee

On every repair we make

Qualified artisans

Restorer-weavers

Payment

12 interest-free instalments

Transport

Free pickup & delivery

— The result speaks for itself

Rug repair —
where others see a rug beyond saving.

Drag the handle to compare the same rug, before and after our workshop.

1920 Kashan rug before repair — holes, torn border, worn areas
1920 Kashan rug after full restoration — borders rebuilt, areas rewoven in the original knot
Before repair After

Piece restored

Persian Tabriz · silk · four months of work

— Why Tapis Boeuf

Artisan rug restoration:
a craft few workshops still master.

Pillar 01

Qualified restorer-weavers

Our qualified restorer-weavers carry a craft handed down across four generations — over 75 years of expertise.

Pillar 02

10-year guarantee

All our restoration work is guaranteed for 10 years — a rare commitment we are proud to stand behind.

Pillar 03

National museums

The atelier is referenced by several national museums and specialist insurance companies.

Pillar 04

Loan rug

While the work is under way, we lend you a rug free of charge so your floor is never left bare.

— Our repair specialities

Every kind of damage, one artisan rug repair service.

A hand-knotted rug is built on a foundation — the hidden grid of warp and weft, the vertical and horizontal threads that form its skeleton — into which every knot of the pile (the soft surface you walk on) is tied. Whichever part has failed, our artisans rebuild it: from a small fringe to the rescue of a rug declared lost.

By type of damage

6 specialities

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Hole repair on a Persian rug — reweaving thread by thread with a needle

Repair 01

Holes & tears

Reweaving knot by knot on the original warp and weft.

Our reweaving method →
Repair of damaged fringes on an oriental rug — ancestral hand stitches

Repair 02

Fringes

The visible warp ends rebuilt by hand in the original materials.

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Restoration of a Persian rug border and selvedge — rebuilt point by point

Repair 03

Edges & selvedges

The reinforced outer edge rewrapped point by point.

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Rug eaten by moths — decontamination, rewefting and repiling

Repair 04

Moth damage

Decontamination, then weft and pile rebuilt where larvae fed.

Describe your damage →
Water-damaged rug — sanitising wash and structural repair

Repair 05

Water damage

Rapid response, sanitising wash, structural repair, insurance handled.

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Fire-burned rug — deodorising and reconstruction of charred areas

Repair 06

Fire & burns

Deodorising, charred zones rebuilt, colors revived.

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Hole repair on a Persian rug — reweaving thread by thread with a needle

Repair 01

Holes & tears

Reweaving knot by knot on the original warp and weft — the missing area made whole again.

Our reweaving method →
Repair of damaged fringes on an oriental rug — ancestral hand stitches

Repair 02

Fringes

Fringes — the visible warp ends — rebuilt by hand in the original materials, with ancestral stitches.

Explore fringe restoration →
Restoration of a Persian rug border and selvedge — rebuilt point by point

Repair 03

Edges & selvedges

The selvedge — the reinforced outer edge — rewrapped point by point to recover its original strength.

Request a diagnosis →
Rug eaten by moths — decontamination, rewefting and repiling

Repair 04

Moth damage

Decontamination, then rebuilding of weft and pile across the areas the larvae devoured.

Describe your damage →
Water-damaged rug — sanitising wash and structural repair

Repair 05

Water damage

Rapid response, sanitising wash, structural repair — and your insurance claim handled end to end.

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Fire-burned rug — deodorising and reconstruction of charred areas

Repair 06

Fire & burns

Deodorising, reconstruction of charred zones, colors revived with natural dyes.

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Exceptional pieces

Rare & antique rugs

Antique Yazd tree-of-life rug — a century-old exceptional piece

Exceptional pieces

Antique rugs

Over 100 years old? Museum-grade conservation, photographic documentation, heritage certificate.

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Persian silk rug under restoration — precious fibres repaired in natural silk

Signature weaves

Persian & oriental rugs

Tabriz, Qom, Kashan, silk on silk: ultra-delicate work, knot counts matched to the original weave.

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Tribal kilim under repair — flat-woven oriental rug rebuilt by hand

Weaves of the East

Oriental rugs & kilims

Turkish, Caucasian, Afghan and Turkmen rugs, flat-woven kilims: each tradition repaired with its own knot.

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Antique Yazd tree-of-life rug — a century-old exceptional piece

Exceptional pieces

Antique rugs

Over 100 years old? Museum-grade conservation, photographic documentation, heritage certificate.

Discover antique restoration →
Persian silk rug under restoration — precious fibres repaired in natural silk

Signature weaves

Persian & oriental rugs

Tabriz, Qom, Kashan, silk on silk: ultra-delicate work, knot counts matched to the original weave.

Explore Persian rug repair →
Tribal kilim under repair — flat-woven oriental rug rebuilt by hand

Weaves of the East

Oriental rugs & kilims

Turkish, Caucasian, Afghan and Turkmen rugs, flat-woven kilims: each tradition repaired with its own knot.

Explore oriental rug repair →

Unusual damage, a hopeless case, a one-of-a-kind piece? Every rug deserves its diagnosis.

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They entrusted us with their rugs

4.9 / 5 · 148 Google reviews

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

Michel ZinalVisited March 2026

★★★★★

Beautifully careful work repairing the fringes of my wool-and-silk Persian rug. The result is flawless, with genuine respect for the materials and the craft. I recommend them without hesitation!

Zina DandellisVisited May 2026

★★★★★

The weave of my rug has been perfectly restored. I am delighted with the service — my rug looks brand new!

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.

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!

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

— The workshop at work

The gestures of rug restoration,
handed down since 1950.

Watch our artisans mid-restoration — needle reweaving, fringe reconstruction, repiling, plant-dyed color work.

  • ✦ Reweaving thread by thread
  • ✦ Natural plant dyes
  • ✦ Combing of the pile

Restoring an Iranian Tabriz · Workshop in Sartrouville, 20 minutes from central Paris

— Ancestral techniques

Rug restoration techniques:
reweaving, repiling, rewefting.

Each technique has its own name, its own tool, its own patience. Some take years to learn.

Technique I

Reweaving

Rebuilding a vanished area knot by knot, in the original material and color. The finest gesture in the atelier.

Technique II

Repiling

Renewing worn pile: new matching wools knotted onto the original foundation with the ancestral stitch.

Technique III

Rewefting

Rebuilding the rug's horizontal structure — the weft — where moths or age have eaten it away.

Technique IV

Natural dyeing

Reviving faded shades with natural dyes (indigo, madder, cochineal), and correcting color run — dye that has bled into neighbouring areas.

Technique V

Combing the pile

Levelling the fibres with a hand brush after repiling: the restored zone becomes perfectly invisible.

Technique VI

Back lining

Leather or cotton strips hand-sewn to the back of the rug to reinforce fragile zones and edges.

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— An ancestral craft

Color restoration
with natural dyes.

Bringing sun-faded tones back to life, one fibre at a time.

Color restoration at the workshop: pigments applied by brush, fibre after fibre
The atelier · pigments applied by brush

Our pigment library · natural & mineral

Madder

Root · red

Cochineal

Insect · carmine

Indigo

Plant · blue

Weld

Plant · yellow

Walnut

Husk · brown

Saffron

Flower · orange

Ochre

Mineral · earth

Charcoal

Mineral · black

Madder

Root · red

Cochineal

Insect · carmine

Indigo

Plant · blue

Weld

Plant · yellow

Walnut

Husk · brown

Saffron

Flower · orange

Ochre

Mineral · earth

Charcoal

Mineral · black

Madder

Root · red

Cochineal

Insect · carmine

Indigo

Plant · blue

Weld

Plant · yellow

Walnut

Husk · brown

Saffron

Flower · orange

Ochre

Mineral · earth

Charcoal

Mineral · black

Time fades

Colors you thought were lost.

Sunlight, air, repeated washing, daily wear — over the decades, even the noblest dyes go quiet. Reds lose their depth, blues drift towards grey, yellows turn pale. Your rug keeps its shape and its drawing, but not the glow of its first year.

Antique rugs, especially those that have faced the light for generations, often reach us with this silent patina — beautiful in its way, yet calling for a respectful revival.

Our answer

Making the pigments, one by one.

Our workshop prepares its own natural plant and mineral pigments — madder, cochineal, indigo, weld, walnut, saffron, ochre, charcoal — in the tradition of the Oriental dye masters, across four generations.

Each shade is composed to measure so it melts exactly into the rug's original palette. The pigment is applied with a needle, strand by strand, into the heart of the fibre — never on the surface. The revival stays invisible; the work comes back to life.

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“A rug is not only a drawing — it is a palette that has travelled through time.
We revive it without ever repainting it.”

— The Tapis Boeuf atelier

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— Our process

Our rug restoration process
in seven steps.

  1. Step 01

    Contact & free diagnosis

    Free diagnosis from photos or at the workshop. A precise assessment of the damage and of what can be saved.

  2. Step 02

    Detailed quote within 48 hours

    Itemised pricing, gesture by gesture, with estimated duration and options. No obligation — and 12 interest-free instalments available.

  3. Step 03

    Pickup & loan rug

    Free pickup and delivery, fully insured. If you wish, we lend you a rug for the duration of the work.

  4. Step 04

    Preliminary wash

    A gentle hand wash reveals the rug's true condition. Every zone to be restored is mapped and photographed.

  5. Step 05

    Restoration by hand

    Reweaving, repiling, rewefting, dyeing — whatever the piece requires. Regular photo reports keep you informed.

  6. Step 06

    Inspection & finishing

    Combing of the pile, inspection under magnification, final proofing. The rug leaves the workshop only when perfect.

  7. Step 07

    Delivery & 10-year guarantee

    Delivery to your door, a restoration certificate in hand, and a 10-year guarantee on all work carried out.

— Our commitment

Rug repairs
guaranteed 10 years.

Every repair that leaves our workshop is guaranteed for 10 years. It is our promise on our artisans' work — and our certainty that each gesture was done by the rules of the craft.

Should a restored zone ever fail within those ten years, we take it back and put it right, free of charge.

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Guarantee

10

years

On all our
restoration work

— Gallery

Our rug repairs,
before and after.

1920 Kashan rug before repair — large holes in the medallion, warp exposed
1920 Kashan rug after repair — holes rewoven with a needle
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Kashan · 1920

Hole repair

1890 Tabriz rug before repair — fringes torn to shreds, threads hanging loose
1890 Tabriz rug after — fringes rebuilt in the original materials
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Tabriz · 1890

Fringe rebuild

Silk Qom rug before repair — wide area worn down to the warp, weft to rebuild
Silk Qom rug after — weft rebuilt in natural silk
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Qom · silk

Rewefting

1930 Heriz rug before repair — several areas devoured by moths, foundation exposed
1930 Heriz rug after — moth damage fully repaired
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Heriz · 1930

Moth damage repair

1880 Isfahan rug before repair — wide charred area at the centre after a fire
1880 Isfahan rug after — rescued and rebuilt after the fire
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Isfahan · 1880

Fire rescue

1910 Bukhara rug before — frayed selvedges and fringes torn away
1910 Bukhara rug after — selvedges and fringes restored
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Bukhara · 1910

Edges & fringes

— Beyond repair

Beyond rug repair:
cleaning and ongoing care.

Precious fibre

Silk rug care

Silk demands its own protocol — pH-neutral baths, no brushing, drying flat away from light.

Read about silk rug care →

— Frequently asked questions

Frequently asked questions
about rug repair.

What does your rug repair service include?
Rug repair at Tapis Boeuf includes reweaving missing areas knot by knot, rebuilding fringes and selvedges, repiling moth-eaten wool, correcting color run and reviving faded shades with natural pigments. Every repair is carried out by hand in our Sartrouville workshop, and each rug leaves the atelier with a 10-year guarantee on all work.

My rug is badly damaged — can it really be saved?
Yes — in 95% of cases a badly damaged rug can be saved. We have rescued rugs written off by other workshops — pieces devoured by moths, burned in fires, soaked in floods. Only a proper diagnosis can tell for certain, and ours is free.

How much does rug repair cost?
The cost of rug repair depends on the nature and extent of the damage, the material and the intricacy of the design — every job is priced individually. We quote precisely after a free diagnosis, and offer payment in 12 interest-free instalments for major restorations.

How long does a rug restoration take?
A rug restoration takes from a few weeks to several months, depending on complexity. A full reweaving can take up to six months for a large piece. We lend you a rug free of charge while yours is in the workshop, if you wish.

Will the repaired area be visible?
No — a properly restored area should be invisible. Reweaving thread by thread in matching materials, repiling with hand-dyed wool, combing the finished pile: every technique is designed to make the restored zone disappear into the original weave, so even a trained eye struggles to find it.

Do you repair rugs outside France?
Yes — we repair rugs from France, Monaco, Switzerland, Belgium and Luxembourg. Every piece travels by insured transport to our workshop in Sartrouville, 20 minutes from central Paris. We provide free pickup and delivery throughout France, and door-to-door collection is arranged for international clients.

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— Where we operate

Rug repair across France,
Monaco, Switzerland, Belgium.

Our coverage

From our family workshop in Sartrouville, 20 minutes from central Paris, we restore rugs from all of France (Paris, Lyon, Marseille, Strasbourg, Bordeaux, Nice, Lille…) as well as Monaco, Switzerland, Belgium and Luxembourg.

Parisians can turn to our dedicated rug repair service in Paris. Beyond our borders, the same insured couriers collect from apartments in Monaco, lakeside homes in Geneva and town houses in Brussels. Your rug is photographed, insured and tracked from pickup to delivery.

Pickup and delivery
free throughout France.

Specialist art courier · rug insured

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Italy

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Spain

Saint-Malo

Strasbourg

Lyon

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Bordeaux

Countries French cities

— Entrust us with your rug

Your quote,
free and without obligation.

Send a few photos and receive a precise rug repair quote within 48 hours · Free pickup and delivery · 10-year guarantee

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throughout France.

Monaco · Switzerland · Belgium · Luxembourg

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