Essential Rug Repair Course
A hands on course learning everyday rug repairs that are used daily in a rug cleaning plant.
Learn Everyday Rug Repairs
Course Details
Course: Essential Rug Repairs
Course Duration: 2 Days
Location: Arcadia Rug Spa, Cheshire
Date: Summer 2024: TBC
Trainer: Sian West from Arcadia Rug Spa
Who Is This Course For?
This course is for anyone who is wishing to add rug repair and restoration to their existing business. This is a great addition to any carpet or rug related business.
Rug cleaners, this will give you more confidence when cleaning rugs. Rug sellers will be able to make repairs and alterations ready to sell 2nd hand rugs.
What Will You Learn?
Our rug repair course will be very hands on, over the 2 days you will complete your very own rug sample with all the repair methods that we will teach.
Rug repairing is tedious so make sure you also bring plenty of patience and enthusiasm with you. Everything else will be supplied for you.
After a brief talk, going through the main areas of the course manual and looking at some rug samples, we will discuss the most common conditions and repairs that you’ll come across with all types of rugs, then we’ll jump straight in with the repairs.
These are:
- Fringe Damage
- Side Cord Damage
- Securing
- Hand Binding
- Machine Binding
- Machine Fringing
- Fringe Tying off (Dogereh)
- Backing Delamination
- Replacing Edging bands
- Retufting tufted rugs
- Sheepskin Seam restitching
- Sheepskin rips, holes repairs
- Sheepskin Hide softening
During the course we will also discuss:
- Equipment
- Tools
- Wools
- Yarns
- Structures
- Knots
- Rug ID
- Inspections
- Customers Expections vs Reality
- Yarn Colour Matching
- Yarn Sizing
- Rug Repair Kits
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Access To Great Benefits
Essential Rug Repair Kits
We’ve put together the perfect essential rug repair kit, which includes authenic iranian hand made tools (scissors, 3 in 1 weaving tool, pliers), stitch snips, needles, latch-hook, beeswax bar, waxed thread, needle threader, awl, cotton yarns, starter set of wool yarns in common colours.
Purchase with the course or on the course and get a great discount!
Exclusive Repair Videos
When you’ve completed the course you will get exclusive access to our repair videos that have indepth explainations and follow along tutorials to remind you how to get going with your repairs that you learnt on the course.
These will be available to you in the dedicated facebook group or via invite only on Youtube.
Post Course Help & Support
We will be there for you throughout your journey, We completely understand how some repairs may seem daunting at first and you just don’t know where to start.
You can get in touch with us via the dedicated facebook group or email us anytime and we’ll walk you through it and give you help and guidance while you gain your confidence.
Why Choose Our Rug Repair Course?
So what makes our course different? Well we are a full time rug cleaning and restoration company and Sian works full time in the business. She is repairing rugs on a daily basis all year round, and she’s been doing this for the last 8 years.
We strongly believe that the best way to learn is to be hands on and not reading a manual or watching someone else do the work, you will repeat the repairs multiple times during the 2 days, committing the repairs to muscle memory.
You’ll also take home your own rug sample that you worked on during the course, this will be a good reminder, you can continue to practice on futher and you can also use it as a repair sample to show your customers.
About Sian the course Teacher
Sian has always had a passion for Art and Textiles and studied both at A level. She has been in the floor cleaning industry for over 16 years and has been restoring and repairing rugs at Arcadia Rug Spa for the past 8 years.
Sian completed the Woolsafe Rug cleaning techinicain course with Ruth Travis in 2016, completed Julie Roberts colour restoration course in 2018 and Gabriel’s colour restoration course in 2023.
Although Sian is mainly self taught in rug restoration, she has spent time with a number of experts over the years, spent countless hours studying books and videos and in her early years bought 2nd hand rugs that she took apart and put back together again. Now she has a vast back catalogue of rug repairs and restoration and is repairing rugs on a daily basis.
