Small Handmade Hooked wool rug sitting on another larger hooked wool rug from the same customer, at customer's house..
Hookrug01 shows before cleaning, about to clean by bonnet system.
Larger rug also cleaned the same at the same time.
Hookrug02 shows clean bonnet sitting on rug that has been sprayed with Bi-O-Kleen products Bonnet Cleaner/Carpet Shampoo.
Hookrug 03 shows left half cleaned, right half still soiled.
Note the difference in colors, especially the white part.
Nichols 001 shows my own 3 x 5 Chinese wool rug made about 1926, given to me by Mrs. Nichols in 1960. About to wash it for the first time in 10 years.
It normally sits at the foot of my bed in the Master Bedroom.
Nichols 002 shows washing the back first, face down. Another rug- a small bath rug to be washed at the same time. bath rug is nylon plush.
Nichols 003 is a closeup of the back after washing.
Nichols 004 is the face after washing.
Nichols 005 is the rug, hanging after washing.
Wrugs 01 to 06 Another day. Shows how I move a washed, heavy rug from one pole with a pulley to lift it to another pole without a set of pulleys.
Wrugs 08 shows that I leave the largest rugs to the last, putting the smaller rugs up on the poles first.
Wrugs 09 shows lifting a round green rug. I lift one end up halfway, then the other end fully up, then the first end fully up.
Wrugs 010 shows 4 rugs washed this day, all hung in my "Rug Plant" (single car garage.)
