Moroccan kilim restoration - before pictures





I've always enjoyed repairing and restoring Moroccan kilims and rugs.  Their earthy colors and textures are indeed quite beautiful and evoke images of their desert landscape origins.  My most recent Moroccan kilim restoration was on a piece that had a whole range of problems - from worn and torn selvages (selvedges), to tears, unraveling, compromised fringes, and missing warps and wefts.  The pictures above and below focus on just one of the many problem areas this Moroccan kilim had - as you can see, the selvage was torn and the kilim needed reweaving.  In my next post, I'll share how I repaired this problem by reweaving the compromised warps and wefts and securing the selvage. --www.traditionalrugrepair.com