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A Comprehensive Guide to Oriental and Specialty Rug Cleaning

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Manufacturer: Oriental Rug Cleaning Company, Inc.

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The first book of its kind with over 900 color photographs, maps and drawings that illustrate how to identify, inspect, and clean rugs mst commonly encountered in rug cleaning plants. Drawing upon their years of cleaning, teaching, and appraising skills as well as knowledge of the most respected and successful oriental rug cleaning plans in the country, the authors combined research with firsthand knowledge in developing the most comprehensive guide in the rug cleaning industry. In an article by Dr. Steven Spivak, textiles technical expert with ASCR International and the ASCR Foundation, praises the value of this publication: Writing worth reading can be a life changing event. For a serious, substantial new book, these opening words apply not only to reader and book buyer, but as well to the authors. It applies exactly to the recent arrival of A Comprehenisve Guide to Oriental & Specialty Rug Cleaning by Amirkhan and Groseclose. This splendid, lavishly illustrated and comprehensive new rug book and cleaning guide will change the way many flooring retailers, professional cleaners, rug aficionados and our greater ASCR community will think and learn about oriental, area and specialty rugs. At 400 pages with over 900 hundred illustrations and photographs, most in full color, plus easy to understand diagrams, maps and explanatory drawings, this is one special book huzzah! It took the authors, highly respected oriental rug and rug cleaning experts, teachers, lecturers and authors, about four years of painstaking effort to bring this new rug cleaning compendium to us. It s worth the effort and demands serious attention. The rug cleaning guide contains eighteen chapters plus a glossary of terms, recommended references and a detailed index. The book is divided into several logical sections beginning with rug materials fibers and dyes; then construction and features of the many variations of machine-made rugs, plus specialty and area rugs. A major portion on hand-knotted rugs with their classification, construction, design features and means of identification. Thereafter follows the chemistry of rug cleaning, pre-inspection for problems and successful cleaning, and detailed rug cleaning methods with numerous cleaning alternatives clearly given. Rug spotting and spot removal, cleaning related problems and practical solutions comprise a major aspect of the book. A list of rug and rug cleaning resources, a mini-buyer s guide if you like, is useful to anyone in the textile furnishings and cleaning business, or thinking of diversifying further into rug cleaning. A meaningful quote begins their introduction and prelude to rug history. It s descriptive of rug marketing and retailing as well as cleaning and rug collecting. To rug neophytes as well as to experts and rug cleaners, the following describes that special love and affection many have for oriental and specialty rugs. The authors analogize rugs to Winston Churchill s portentous view of the late Soviet Union as: 'a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma, [since this] also describes the world of oriental rugs.' Therein shows a rug s mystique and inner beauty, plus the affection from those whose business it is to import, sell, swap, collect, decorate with and/or clean and repair rugs. There are many cleaning manuals, guides, smaller or insubstantial 'books' and the like in our industry. But seldom does such a labor of love, an enormous expense in authors time, effort and cost to produce, appear for us to take notice. The Amirkhan and Groseclose Oriental & specialty Rug Cleaning book is one of those - 'first among equals' in the rug cleaning business.


PRODUCT DESCRIPTIONS:

Binding: Spiral-bound
EAN: 9780977616305
ISBN: 0977616304
Label: Oriental Rug Cleaning Company, Inc.
Manufacturer: Oriental Rug Cleaning Company, Inc.
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 394
Publication Date: 2006-02-01
Publisher: Oriental Rug Cleaning Company, Inc.
Studio: Oriental Rug Cleaning Company, Inc.


CUSTOMER REVIEWS:

Worth the price -
I was also mildly shocked by the price of this book - but great rugs come at challenging prices - and if you need to maintain that priceless rug in your living room and make sure that it is in mint condition for many years -- that will have paid the price of this book. I am a rug enthusiast, and this book is a must own for me.

Finally! A Rug Cleaner's Referance Book! -
Don't be dissuaded by the purchase price! If this book saves you from ruining even one oriental rug, it will more than pay for itself.
While most oriental rug books devote a paragraph, or (if you're lucky) a chapter to rug care, this book is devoted to the topic. It distills several generations' knowledge of oriental & specialty rug cleaning information, pitfalls, tips & tricks into a handy reference guide that every rug cleaner must have in their library. Quite simply, this is a "one-stop" source of rug cleaning information that would otherwise take tens of thousands of dollars AND decades of trial & error to learn. The photos are outstanding, as is the "flow chart" to assist one in the daunting process of learning rug identification.
There is no other book even remotely close to this one. OUTSTANDING!!

Nathan Koets, CRS
Master Oriental Rug Cleaner

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