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Winter weather can take its toll on your home.  Treading mud, slush or road salt into your house can turn into a nightmare, soiling your rugs and carpets.  Road salt may not be noticeable at first, but over time it gradually builds up and creates a stain that is already deep into your rug.

It can be helpful for you to have a door mat outside of the door to help people remove any dirt or snow from their shoes prior to entering the house.  This will help you to only have minimal dirt and slush is tracked into your house and onto your rug.   Also, vacuuming both the front and back of the rug regularly can help prevent major salt staining.  This should be done at a time where the rug is dry, because it is more likely to pick up any salt that is in the rug.

If you are already at a point where your rug is really dirty or has a bad stain, we suggest that you have it professionally cleaned.  Especially for a valuable or heavily soiled rug, cleaning it yourself may end up hurting the rug more than the weather already has.  Professional services, like the one offered at Peykar Rugs on Long Island, are safe and thorough. We can determine what kind of materials and dyes were used to make your rug in order to find the best method of cleaning for your rug.

20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80% Off. Where does it stop? How do you know if you are getting the best value today if there might be another “sale” tomorrow?

Here at Peykar, we have been thinking about this, and are here to help. First, we shop the world for the best quality, best style, and best value rugs available. Second, we directly import these rugs to keep the cost as low as possible. Third, we keep our mark up as low as we can, every day of the year. These steps help us guarantee you the best possible rug or carpet for your home, at the best price.  This does not mean your rug will be cheap, it means that you will get the most you can for your money.  Customers who shop at Peykar get the best quality rugs on Long Island within their price range.  This guarantee helps make our customers home’s look its best for many years, even generations.

Don’t take our word for it.  Come in and see for yourself!  Eliminate the stress of having to look for the biggest sale. Just come Peykar Rugs in Westbury, NY, where every day we have the best prices, backed up by our 30 day price guarantee.

Peykar has been selling some of the finest rugs and carpets on long Island at the lowest prices available for forty years.  We plan to continue providing our customers with the best deals available over the years to come.

Along with being a beautiful addition to any home, Needlepoint Rug’s are also fragile hand crafted pieces of art that need to be maintained throughout the years.  In order to preserve the quality and visual appeal of your needlepoint there are a few steps that should be taken.

It is recommended to use only the suction of the vacuum.  Do not use a beater brush when vacuuming these rugs, as this can cause damage. Once the front is done, turn the rug around and do the same to the back. For minor stains, spot cleaning can be done at home.  We recommend using mild soap, such as dish washing soap to spot clean.  Do not use any chemicals on the rug, as they might cause the colors to run.  If this does not work, or the stains are too big to manage it is important to have a professional clean it, to avoid damage or color bleeding.

The best way to keep your rug in the finest condition is to have it professionally cleaned every 3-5 years, dependent upon the wear and tear of its location.  At Peykar, we have an excellent cleaning service that is highly recommended by our customers.

If you are spot cleaning the needlepoint yourself, we recommend checking the fibers for colorfastness.  This will help prevent the colors from running.  Simply find a large area of color on the rug, and gently rub it with a white cloth that has cold water.  If you only have small areas of color, a cotton swab would also work.  If any of the color transfers onto the white cloth, do not wash the rug yourself.  Washing it will result in discoloration and fading.  If this does not cause fading, also pre-test any solutions that you plan on using to clean the rug in a hidden area to ensure that it will not also fade the colors.  This is important even just for spot removal.

Another important element of needlepoint care is having the correct padding under the rug.  A needlepoint, more than other rugs, needs a nice padding underneath it to keep it flat.  On top of preventing wrinkles, this also will prevent it from slipping across your floor.  Creases and other damage can occur without padding, whether the rug is on carpet, wood or other flooring.

If you follow these steps your needlepoint rug should last for generations!

In April of 1996, the estate of the famous Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was put up for auction at Sotheby’s.  Our owner, Robert Hakimi, attended this auction, with his eye on a beautiful mid 19^th century Victorian needlepoint rug.  The rug is 8’ x 7’1 and is designed with roses and hibiscus and four eagles on the corners of the border.  This rug was famous for being located in Jackie’s favorite room of the white house during her husband’s presidency, the Yellow Oval Room, which was located on the second floor.

(The Original Sotheby’s listing)

Despite being labeled as $6,000-8,000 in the auction catalogue, like the other items offered during this auction, the sentimental value of the possessions of Jackie and JFK was underestimated.  The rug was considered to have had a frenzy of bidding of bidding at the auction.  The final purchase price of this rug was $43,125, over double what Robert had expected to pay for this white house original.  Robert made an agreement with his uncles to split the price of the rug.  The rug was then reproduced and sold in honor of Jackie.  Paul Peykar was quoted saying that the high price paid for the original was well worth it “to preserve a piece of such historical importance”.

The Pazyryk Rug is the oldest rug ever to be discovered.  In 1949, the Russian Professor Sergei Rudenko found this rug while excavating burial mounds belonging to the Scythian people in Sothern Siberia.  The architect found five frozen grave sites, with the contents preserved in solid ice, resulting in them being in almost perfect condition when they were extracted.  It is believed that the tomb had been robbed shortly after being closed, resulting in its seal being broken, allowing moisture to leak in and freeze.  This raid can be directly attributed to this rug being protected from decay.  This lucky discovery completely changed the way the history of rug making was perceived.  Until then, the oldest rugs that had been discovered were made of lesser quality weaving and material, where as this rug was made using advanced techniques and materials.  As the oldest surviving example of a complete rug so far, this rug created the perceptions of just what weavers were capable of all the way back to 400 B.C.

This rug was made by a group of people called the Scythians, who from the 9^th Century BC expanded across Eastern Europe from Asia, and to the Mediterranean and Egypt.  They were an ethnically diverse group of people who spoke an Iranian based language and had traces of the Mongol race.  They were known for their skills with domesticating horses and becoming great horsemen and archers.  These tribal people were known for their fearlessness, and their advantage in war caused by this and their excellent horsemanship.  Their horses were known for being decorated with rugs instead of saddles.  The large grave sites where the Pazyryk rug was found was said to be where their great warriors and tribal chiefs were buried.  These Scythian heroes were buried with decorated horses, weapons, gold artifacts, food and other textiles.  The quality and condition of this rug has resulted in the assumption that the rug was created purely for burial purposes.  The rug would have never actually been used in everyday life.

For a long time, it was thought that early rugs and carpets were fairly primitive in both construction and design.  To find a rug that was over 2500 years old that was so sophisticated changed this view entirely.  This rug was constructed using the traditional Turkish knotting system, which until then had been linked to beginning only 2000 years ago, 500 later than this rug was created.  This sophistication informs us that a higher level of design and construction was not only already existent, but had to have already been passed on by numerous generations to reach that level of detail and execution.  This is similar to the sophistication of the dye technology used for the yarn.  This fabric was dyed using colors from local insects and plants to create a refined pallet.  Until discovering this rug, it was not believed that this level of dye technology was possible for ancient people.

The rug is 5’11” x 6’6” in size, making it almost square, and has a soft wool feeling.  It is finely knotted, with approximately 200 to 270 symmetrical knots per square inch.  The rug has a deep red color in its center, and has five borders.  Overall, the rug has four colors: red, yellow, green and blue.  The center field has a pattern that has been interpreted as repeating quatrefoils, which is a design that is common in the stonework of Assyrian Palaces.  This pattern has been also related to symbolism that represents the sun.  The primary, and widest, border contains horsemen, which are suggested to represent power, nobility and valor.  Each horse has a saddlecloth that resembles the actual Pazaryk rug.  The secondary inner border features a series of grazing elk, which is thought to represent longevity and wisdom.  The final outside border is made up of winged griffins.  These animals are part eagle and part lion, and are known to be guardians, unclear as to if it is mean for in life or after life.