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To: Michael Sphar who wrote (36060)	8/24/1999 3:21:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 71178

That's similar advice to what I've read in From Rugs to Riches, by Caroline Bosley, a very good book which I recommend highly. She does advise testing the rug to see if it's color fast, spit on a handkerchief (saliva is mildly alkaline) and rub the pile in a place where it won't be noticed. If color shows up on the handkerchief, it's not color fast, and needs to be dry-cleaned by a cleaner who specializes in oriental rugs. She says use diluted Woolite. She recommends drying the rug on the lawn, freshly mown, to allow circulation. Professional rug cleaners use wooden slats to elevate the rug. She doesn't say to drive over it, and I wouldn't. Think of it as a very large wool sweater, torsion while wet will stretch it. Or you could do as the Scandinavians do, wait until you have a heavy fall of fresh, powdery snow, put the rug in the garage so it gets cold overnight, and the next day lay the rug face down in the fresh snow, and then gently beat the back (she says with twigs) to loosen the dirt. Leave it to "settle" 15 minutes, pick it up and shake energetically, and then take it back in, and spread it flat to dry. Whatever you do, air dry the top, then turn it over and air dry the bottom.

To: Michael Sphar who wrote (36060)	8/25/1999 3:44:00 AM
From: ZinMaster	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

> Besides that if they ever need cleaning, if you > really get ambitious you can have your husband drag > em out to the driveway and just hose em down and scrub > in a bucket of woolite with a push broom then hose to > rinse. I never treated my Japanese girlfriend that way, even when she was a bad girl. > Drive over em a couple of times just to squeegy out some > of the water afterwards. Let em dry in the sun before you > drag em back in. May take a couple of days. Cleaner than > new, no camel dung. You are a very cruel person, Michael Sphar.