Pillows

Here at Main Street Oriental Rugs in Historic Ellicott City, we offer a variety of carpets, but also we offer some other products including pillows. These pillows are sometimes made from old carpets that can't be used anymore as a rug, so they're turned into great throw pillows. At our store we can make a pillow for you from your favorite rug that just got too run down to be used.

Year end sale

We are having our year end sale! Come by our store in Historic Ellicott City for fantastic deals! 10% off cleaning and 20% off repair.

Pillow Story

A customer came into the store with an old Dhuri carpet that had belonged to her grandmother.  The rug brought back many childhood memories of fun times at her grandmother’s house.  Unfortunately the rug suffered from one too many pet stains, cleaning was not successful, and repair was cost prohibitive and exceeded the value of the rug.  The customer was grateful for our attempts to save the rug and knew it was too far gone to save.  Imagine our surprise when a week later friends of the customer returned with the rug.  They had saved it from the trash and asked about what they could do to save the rug for their friend.  We suggested that we could salvage some parts of the rug and make a throw pillow at a reasonable cost.  Our rug repair experts made the pillow and it was given to our customer as a Christmas present by her friends.  Now she still has a piece of her Grandmother's rug to remind her of all her good memories.

History of Tibetan Rugs

Here at Main Street Oriental Rugs in Historic Ellicott City, we are very interested in the history of the rugs we bring into our store. Recently we've been looking into the history of Tibetan rugs and now we'll share what we've found. Tibetan rugs are usually made from local wool of Tibetan sheep and are hand spun into threads to be used for the rugs. The rugs were hand made for many of the aristocratic families in Tibet but also to monasteries where monks would use the rugs for comfort while performing religious service on large wooden platforms. Then, when Tibet became a tremulous country many of the families who owned the rug making facilities fled to India and the rug facilities went out of business. Though, recently, some Tibetan style rugs have begun to spring back up both in India and in Tibet. Here we have some examples of fine Tibetan rugs that we have here at Main Street Oriental Rugs in Historic Ellicott City.

Before and After Repair

One of our recent projects was of a Persian Shiraz rug that was all torn up around the edges. We at Main Street Oriental Rugs in Historic Ellicott City made sure to fix it up well. We repaired the binding and the fringe to make sure it doesn't unravel again. Here are some pictures of before and after. As you can see the before pictures are all torn up and ripped but the after pictures look brand new.

Rug Washing

Here at Main Street Oriental Rugs in Historic Ellicott City, we offer a variety of different rug cleaning services. We offer surface washing for the less dirty rugs, super wash for those rugs that have seen many muddy days, and super deluxe wash for those that have been through many many years of wear and tear. We also offer pet stain removal and deep pile cleaning for those special rugs that need specific treatment. When people come in with rugs they often have never been cleaned before but people really should clean theirs more often because that dust piles up after a while and an really ruin a carpet. We never use chemicals to clean our rugs to make sure your family is as safe as possible.

  

Persian Karaje

Here at Main Street Rugs in Historic Ellicott City, our store is covered in beautiful hanging rugs. This particular rug is a Persian Karaje. These rugs come from the City of Karaj where the culture there is filled with beautiful designs and colors. Some collectors like Joel Miller can really appreciate the beauty of rugs like these and has many of them hanging in his house. The colors in these kinds of rugs are mostly red and beige but can sometimes even go on to colors like black and beige.