One of the great things about our Oriental Rug Blog has been the tremendous response we’ve gotten from readers. It’s clear that people have many questions about Oriental rugs and we’re happy to do our best to answer them.
We get loads of emails asking questions about specific rugs. Richard has dutifully sent out dozens (hundreds?) of detailed responses to these questions, which is great. But wouldn’t it be better if we could all benefit from his expertise?
We hope this will be possible with the new Ask the Rug Experts section of our blog. Here’s how it will work:
If you have a question about a rug you own, go ahead and email us at expert@internetrugs.com with the subject “ask the experts”. Be sure to include at least one photo of the rug. We’ll post your question along with our answer on the blog.

hELLO THERE!
I FOUND A RUG “FACES” A FACE FOR EVERY OCCASION 100% WEAVTON POLYOLEFIN ,SUPERIOR FIBRE, ORIENTAL WEAVERS,FROM EGYPT. I AM TRYING TO FND OT MORE ABOUT MY FIND.
MANY THANKS, BECKY
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SORRY I DID NOT SENDA PICTURE, I WILL.
Hi, I inquired about a rug I saw on the Internet, and was told it has a “stabilized split” in the center medallion (which does not show up in the photographs). What would cause a rug to “split”–does this mean it has dry rot? What could have been done to “stabilize” it, short of reweaving? Thanks-