Grillo Oriental Rug Cleaning

We maintain a full service Oriental rug repair, restoration, and conservation department with hundreds of colors of wool and all the findings necessary to revitalize your Oriental rugs. Our weavers are skilled at re-fringing, restoring edges, reweaving of holes and tears, re-knotting of wool to moth damaged areas.

The Grillo staff is comprised of trained, dedicated professionals. Most have been employed with Grillo for over ten years, and the foreman of the cleaning facility has been with the company for 25 years. Our trained professionals offer the highest quality cleaning services in New England. Grillo Oriental Rug Gallery and Care is a unique hybrid of Oriental rug knowledge and expertise, and hands-on cleaning experience. All cleaning and restoration work is done in Grillo's own facility, that is equipped and engineered especially for Oriental rug care.

Our Maintenance Care cleaning service provides thorough deep-fiber, dust and grit removal and employs a wet wash process using surfactants long proven safe on wool and Oriental rug dyes. After rinsing, rugs pass through our rubber coated squeeze rollers removing the excess water, an essential step in safe drying. As a final step, rugs are hand groomed and dried in our engineered dry-room. Learn more about our cleaning processes and why they are better for your treasured oriental rugs and carpets.

This is our general cleaning category for rugs in stable condition that have been reasonably well maintained. For antique, very finely woven, silk highlighted or fragile rugs, also those that are heavily soiled or with significant stains. A specialized discipline for Oriental rugs with high art value that are not in functional use. Oriental rug owners look to Oriental rug dealers as a source of authority for the cleaning of their rugs. These dealers seldom have Oriental rug cleaning expertise or a facility to do so, subcontracting their clients' rugs to others where the rugs are not under their care or control.

Art pieces that are no longer in functional use require a discipline somewhat different from our other cleaning methodologies. We utilize deionized water and a process that safeguards their fragile nature and prevents any polymeric structural impact. Our clients have included The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, various historical societies and individual collectors. Learn more about our processes and why they are better for your treasured oriental rugs and carpets.

Rugs and carpets that are heavily soiled, are pet stained or have strong pet odors, or have other significant stains also benefit from this service. This is not a single process, but any number of more time consuming specialty processes to meet the needs of Oriental rugs that require more than regular maintenance to make them look their best. When we "hand clean" a rug, we use soft, hand-held brushes, never rotary scrubbing machines that can damage fragile rugs. All these rugs are hand rinsed on our washing floor utilizing large volumes of water.

For a general information of both types go to Google where you will find pictures and more information. You may see small moths flitting about especially in spring and summer. Those moths that are attracted to light are not destructive to rug and textiles etc. It is the ones who fly quickly away from the light or crawl around on the floor which do damage. Detection of moth activity can be difficult as they tend to live under furniture or in dark places not frequented by the homeowner. Oftentimes it is only when a rug is taken up for cleaning that evidence is found.