How We Avoid Our Rugs Curling.

Rugs are quickly becoming the exciting final touches to many commercial and leisure projects. They bring a clear separation between the floor and the furniture, they bring areas together which otherwise would feel separated with an added element of colour and pattern to spaces. The softness that comes with adding a rug to the floor allows the users to feel more at ease. When a rug is laid, the project comes together! There is a sense of; et voila!

However, fast forward a few months to when the new space is being used, with potentially a high level of traffic and the at first beautiful rugs are beginning to look tatty around the edges, not to mention the safety concern of having an uneven floor finish and a possible movable product as a trip hazard! When Lauren Totzke decided to work with Indias largest rug manufacturer, Obeetee, to source some of the most beautiful rugs we have ever seen, sorting this problem of curling edges was of upmost importance!

consider the corners

Rugs can be a trip hazard! They should be finished in the correct way to complement your project.

To avoid the edges of the rugs curling up and having people fall over themselves we look into the detail and construction of the backing. Some rugs are simply one piece such as a jute or a home style rug which you might have in your bedroom so maybe thinner and without a weighty backing. This is fine for the purpose of home however, putting a rug like this into a public space is asking for trouble! We use a backing fabric which is 75% recycled pre-consumer cotton and 25% recycled post-consumer polyester. It is combined to create a strong material and is glued together with a synthetic latex (acrylic copolymer) for strength, stability and added weight. Not only do we use this purposeful backing but it is finished as you would expect around the sides to continue the aesthetic to your rug for as long as you use it for! You would not see a Totzke Obeetee rug fraying at the sides!

Obeetee produce a backing on our rugs which are more similar to that produced with the construction of a commercial carpet, with this we have the security of knowing that even after years of being laid on the floor of your office or hotel, they will look as neat and tidy as they did when they were first put down.