[Sergio]

An oriental rug like this one


This one


They are 2 examples of Islamabad from Pakistan. This type of ierntal rug is very common in my country.
The Pakistani sellers say this rug is made of wool and silk,  where silk is the light part of the carpet. In my opinion it is a fraud! In my opinion the light part of the rug is cotton.
I have difficulty washing these rugs.  After washing, the light part is not soft and and the aesthetic result is not the best.
I usually wash these rugs with a woolsafe prespray (Prochem Prespray Gold) and rinse with an acid rinse.
Where is the error?

[Mike Gwilliam]

The error is where you said ‘’ierntal’’.

[Nobby]

Hello Sergio,
If the white fibres go hard after cleaning they are almost certainly viscose rayon which is risky to wet clean. Pile damage is likely (fibre going hard and distorted) and dye bleed into viscose from the other fibres is another risk due to differing rates of drying. As the viscose dries it could pull surrounding dyes into itself or vice versa.  Viscose rayon is often referred to a fake or faux silk, but silk it ain’t. Be careful with it.
Nobby

[John Kelly]

We have a product to restore the softness to Viscose fibres when they have been hardened by water. You just mist on and groom with a soft brush.
http://www.restormate.co.uk/epages/15094.sf/en_GB/?ObjectID=50049907

[Sergio]

Thanks Nobby and John!!

Does anyone know where to buy this brush in Europe?

http://www.jondon.com/velvet-brush.html

[Shaun_Ashmore]

I’m pretty sure Alltec do

[Shaun_Ashmore]

https://alltec.co.uk/product/velvet-carding-brush/

[Sergio]

https://alltec.co.uk/product/velvet-carding-brush/

Thank you Shaun

[CleanerCarpets]

Sergio - sign up to the Cleantalk forum - they have a specific forum for rugs and a guy on there who has a massive amount of experience of them, its amazing the information he will tell you about a certain rug normally just by seeing the images of it