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There are three main carpeting timelines: antique carpet, semi-antique and modern. Occasionally the date of manufacture is woven into antique carpets. A carpet has to be more than sixty years old to be considered antique. Semi-antique carpeting is 25-60 years old. Sometimes another timeline, old carpets, is used, and this classification denotes carpets between 5 and 25 years old.
The condition of antique style carpeting is a significant factor since it affects the beauty and worth of the carpet. The classification style your antique falls under will be one of the following: fine, average and worn.
If given the care it’s worthy of, your antique style carpet will repay you with decades of good service and, as an excellent handmade work of art, it will hold, if not increase, its value. If your carpets have been badly damaged, there are carpet restoration workshops that offer services varying from routine cleaning and the mending of fringes to general reconstruction.
Carpeting is like wine: the older the carpet, the more valuable.
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Only natural pigments were used for floor coverings from the most primitive times until the late nineteenth century. A number of old carpet colorants came from plants, for example madder, indigo, sumac, genista, and woad; others from mollusks and insects. Alum, a substance that fixes colors in the carpet fibers, was used to improve carpet dyes.
When buying antique carpeting, search for a trader who has aged carpets that you do not feel under pressure to purchase. Avoid short notice, hotel or in-store carpet auctions, going out of business carpet sales and 50% off sales. Remember, if the antique you’re looking at seems too good to be true, then it probably is.
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