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 Los Angeles Natural Rug Cleaning "Trade or Purchase Program"

Are you interested in replacing your rug instead of having it cleaned, Or interested in buying another rug? Ask us about our trade program. We carry thousands of rugs in our store and online; check out a sample of our five collections: Antiques, Ikats, Kilims, Navajos, and Oushaks below. If interested, please check our retail and designer site AaraRugs.com

Antiques

Ikats

Ikat, or ikkat, is a dyeing technique used to pattern textiles that employs resist dyeing on the yarns prior to dyeing and weaving the fabric. In ikat the resist is formed by binding individual yarns or bundles of yarns with a tight wrapping applied in the desired pattern. The yarns are then dyed.

Navajos

Navajo rugs are textiles produced by Navajo people of the Four Corners area of the United States. Navajo textiles are highly regarded and have been sought after as trade items for over 150 years. Commercial production of handwoven blankets and rugs has been an important element of the Navajo economy. As one expert expresses it, "Classic Navajo serapes at their finest equal the delicacy and sophistication of any pre-mechanical loom-woven textile in the world."

Oushaks

Oushak Rugs are Turkish rugs that use a particular family of designs, called by convention after the city of UÅŸak, Turkey – one of the larger towns in Western Anatolia, which was a major center of rug production from the early days of the Ottoman Empire, into the early 20th century

Kilims are flat tapestry-woven carpets or rugs produced from the Balkans to Pakistan. Kilims can be purely decorative. Kilims which have become extremely popular nowadays are produced by tightly interweaving the warp and weft strands of the weave to produce a flat surface with no pile. Kilim weaves are tapestry weaves, technically weft-faced plain weaves, that is, the horizontal weft strands are pulled tightly downward so that they hide the vertical warp strands

Kilims