Buying Advice··7 min
Rug Size for the Living Room: Which Format Suits Your Sofa
Most people choose too small. The three arrangements, guide sizes by sofa, and why floor should stay visible around the edges.
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The stories behind the knot.
Editorial insights into knotting craft, designer collaborations and the aesthetics of exclusive interiors — curated by NEGRA Carpet & Home in Zurich.
Buying Advice··6 min
Rug Under the Dining Table: Calculating the Right Size
The chair must stay on the rug when pushed back. Everything else follows from that — including the allowance nobody plans for.
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Rug Sizes: Standard Formats and When a Bespoke Size Makes Sense
Standard sizes come from the loom, not the floor plan. Which ones exist, when they suffice — and the four cases where they do not.
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Checking Knot Density Yourself — and What It Actually Tells You
The one quality figure you can verify without expertise. How to count it — and why it says little on its own.
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Rug Care at Home: What Helps and What Harms
Most damage seen in the workshop comes not from use but from well-meant help. What to do between professional washes — and what not to.
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What a Hand-Knotted Rug Costs — and Where the Price Comes From
A hand-knotted rug is paid for in working hours, not square metres. The arithmetic behind it makes price differences comprehensible.
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Rugs in the Bedroom: Placement and Format
In a bedroom it is not the look that decides but one moment: the first step in the morning. Everything else follows.
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Runners for Hallway and Stairs: Sizes, Laying, Grip
The hallway is the most walked-on and least planned surface in a home. What that means for size and material.
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Zoning Open-Plan Rooms with Rugs
One rug or several? And how much floor has to stay between them for the division to read as intention?
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Hand-Knotted, Hand-Tufted, Machine-Woven — the Difference
Back, fringes, smell: five checks that tell you in a minute which construction you are looking at.
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Wool in a Rug: Origin, Lanolin, Durability
The difference only shows after years — in lustre or in dullness. What causes it and how to spot it beforehand.
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Stains in a Rug: What Works on What
The first minute matters more than any product. Eleven kinds of stain — and when to stop trying.
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Rugs over Underfloor Heating: What Matters
Wool and underfloor heating get along. Two figures decide it — and the underlay weighs more than the rug.
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Room Acoustics: What a Rug Does for Sound
A room that echoes is tiring without your being able to say why. The floor is the largest surface — and usually the hardest.
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How to Recognise a Genuine Persian Rug
A place name denotes a pattern tradition, not necessarily where a rug was made. How to judge origin and construction yourself.
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Silk, Bamboo Silk, Viscose: the Difference
The term „bamboo silk" is a marketing name. What lies behind it and what each of the three fibres is good for.
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Plant or Synthetic Dyes — What It Means
The question is not plant versus synthetic but well versus badly dyed. How to check it yourself.
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Moths in a Rug: Spotting, Treating, Preventing
Fighting the flying insects lets the damage continue. How to spot an infestation and what to do now.
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Rug Underlays: Which One for Which Floor
It does more than stop slipping. What an underlay actually does and which type has no place on parquet.
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Having a Rug Valued: Process and Criteria
What counts for insurance is not the achievable price. Which value you need and how an appraisal works.
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You Have Inherited a Rug — What Now
The gap between „old rug" and „valuable piece" is not visible from the outside. The steps to take before you decide.
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Rugs and Colour Schemes: Floor, Wall, Light
You can derive a palette from a rug. You cannot derive a rug from a wall colour. Which is why it should come first.
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Round, Oval, Irregular: When a Special Shape Works
A special shape answers a room situation, not a taste. Which situations call for one — and which do not.
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The Eight Most Common Proportion Mistakes
Nearly all proportion mistakes share one root: the rug was chosen as an object, not as a surface.
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Natural versus Synthetic Fibres in Rugs
The question is asked as a matter of value and is a matter of purpose. For some rooms synthetic is the right choice, not the compromise.
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Pile, Pile Height, Structure: What Shapes the Handle
Handle is the property that impresses most in a showroom — and says least about durability.
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Warp, Weft, Edges: How a Knotted Rug Is Built
Nearly every kind of damage and every quality question only makes sense once you know what lies beneath the pile.
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How a Professional Rug Wash Works
A professional wash is not a bigger vacuum. It is the only way to get the sand out of the knot base.
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Storing Rugs Properly
Four steps before rolling decide what condition the rug comes back out in.
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Fringes and Edges: When a Repair Is Urgent
Fringes are not decoration but the ends of the warp threads. Damage there is damage to the structure — and it spreads.
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The Weaving Regions: Qom, Isfahan, Nain, Tabriz, Kerman
Region names are not statements of origin but of style. Knowing them tells you what you are looking at.
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Nomadic Rugs: Gabbeh, Kilim, Qashqai
What would be a flaw in a workshop piece is the hallmark here. Nomadic rugs are made without a drawing.
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Layering: Rugs on Top of Rugs
Layering is often used because one rug is too small. That is exactly when it shows.
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Rugs in Minimalist Rooms
The objection is that a knotted rug is too much for a pared-back room. Usually such a room lacks precisely what it brings.
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Checklist Before Buying a Rug
Work through this list and you avoid all eight proportion mistakes — and buy nothing you cannot assess.
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Certificates and Labels on Rugs: What They Prove
A label is a shortcut for trust. It only helps once you know which slice of the picture it checks.
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Pile Restoration: When a Repair Is Worth It
The question is never whether it can be done but whether it should be. Technically almost anything can be reknotted.
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Antique or New: What Determines a Rug's Value
An old rug in poor condition is an old rug in poor condition. Most expectations founder on that sentence.
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Signatures and Master Weavers: What a Cartouche Proves
A signature is the easiest thing to imitate and the hardest to verify. All the more reason to know what it says.
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Insuring Rugs: What Household Cover Provides
The question is not whether but at what value. And that is settled before the damage, not after.
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Combining Patterns Without It Tipping Over
Two patterns of similar scale compete; two clearly different ones complement. Scale decides, not quantity.
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Period and New Build: Different Demands
The two building types set almost opposite tasks — and the same rug does not solve both.
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Coordinating Rugs and Art
Rug and artwork compete for the same attention but not the same surface. One leads, the other carries.
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Custom Colours: How Colour Matching Actually Works
A custom colour is not a pick from a fan deck but a match between two materials that reflect light differently.
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Contract Rugs in Hotels: Requirements and Service Life
In contract work what matters is not how a rug looks on opening day but how it looks in year three.
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Fire Safety for Textile Floor Coverings: What Planners Need
The one property of a rug decided by neither taste nor client — and where supplier claims most often overreach.
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The Art of the Embossed Persian Rug: From Ali Khodadadi to Modern Masterpieces
How Master Ali Khodadadi transformed flat-woven carpets into three-dimensional masterpieces — and why the embossed technique still defines the most exclusive designer rugs today.
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Dressing Your Home in Designer Fashion: From Vivienne Westwood to Roger Oates
From Vivienne Westwood tartans to Roger Oates flatweaves — why the most powerful interiors borrow their language from haute couture.
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