Rug Repair in Brussels

In the maisons de maître and the Art Nouveau townhouses, fine Persian pieces run the length of hallways and up stair flights, where a single runner carries the tread of a whole household and thins along one line; the residences tied to the European institutions press grit into the pile reception after reception. Every piece is rebuilt in its own thread — wool, silk or cotton — never buried under a patch, the same craft set out in our full restoration method, practised by hand since 1950.

Two jobs from this season show what rug repair in Brussels means at our bench. A 1930s Sarouk from a maison de maître in Uccle, worn to the warp along a first-floor landing, went home six weeks later with its pile knotted back in matching wool and the tread line gone for good. A Heriz from a household in the European quarter arrived threaded with moth galleries after a diplomat's posting had left it boxed for two years: we decontaminated it, rebuilt the weft, reknotted the lost patches, then carried the insurer's file from first photograph to final signature.