The antique rug wash across Greenwich, CT.
The antique rug wash is a slow, hand-controlled bath calibrated to the age, dye chemistry, and foundation of an antique piece. Three intensities — heavy, medium, light — chosen by the master artisan rug by rug. The Cohen family has performed the antique wash for Greenwich estate collections for more than a decade. Antique Persians, Aubussons, Chinese silks. Complimentary pickup throughout Greenwich, Cos Cob, Old Greenwich, Riverside, and the backcountry.
The antique wash, calibrated to your rug.
The antique wash is not the same as a wool wash, and the difference matters. Antique vegetable dyes can bleed at the wrong water temperature. Antique foundations weaken under aggressive agitation. The pile of an antique Aubusson reads as a single tonal field; over-wash flattens it. The master artisan inspects, dye-tests, and chooses one of three intensities rug by rug — heavy for sound late-19th and 20th-century wool, medium for most fine antique Persians, light for antique silk and dye-fragile pieces.
Greenwich collections see the wash on a rotation. Estate houses in the backcountry book the wash for the season's rugs after closing-up. Belle Haven townhouses send antique Persians annually. Interior designers commission the wash before a piece returns to a freshly-finished room. Each one comes back with its dyes intact, its foundation sound, and the field reading the way it should.
- Antique Persian wash · medium intensity
- Aubusson wash · light intensity
- Antique silk wash · light intensity
- Heavy traffic antique wool · heavy intensity
- Estate piece with surface oxidation
- Vegetable-dyed antiques needing dye-test
How we wash your antique rug, by hand.
Three intensities, chosen rug by rug. Hand-controlled bath, slow flat drying, returned to your Greenwich home.
Master artisan selects intensity.
After pickup from your Greenwich address, the master artisan inspects the rug by hand, dye-tests by section, and selects the wash intensity — heavy, medium, or light — calibrated to its age, fiber, dye chemistry, and foundation condition.
Hand-controlled bath.
The rug goes into a slow, hand-controlled bath in our dedicated wash bay. Cooler water, gentler soap, longer contact time for fragile antiques. Each rug is worked by hand — never on a rotary machine, never on a conveyor.
Slow flat drying + finish.
Dried flat on padded slatted frames in a humidity-controlled room, never hung, never tumbled. Pile is groomed by hand and the rug is returned to your Greenwich home wrapped, with the dyes intact and the foundation sound.
Greenwich, CT
Letters from across the Northeast.
A few of the rugs we've cared for — and the families who trusted us with them.
“They returned an heirloom Tabriz — the colors look exactly as my grandmother described them.”
“A 1920s Heriz I thought was beyond saving came back better than the day my parents bought it.”
“Our clients trust us with eight-figure homes. Horizon is the only atelier I send their rugs to.”
Questions, honestly answered.
What clients ask us before they hand over a rug — and how we answer.
How is wash intensity chosen for an antique rug?
How long does the antique wash take after a Greenwich pickup?
Our antique rug has not been washed in twenty years — is heavy intensity needed?
Do you pick up antique rugs for the wash in Greenwich, CT?
Do you cover the backcountry and the antique-filled homes along Round Hill Road?
How is the antique wash priced for Greenwich rugs?
How is wash intensity chosen for an antique rug?
How long does the antique wash take after a Greenwich pickup?
Do you pick up antique rugs for the wash in Greenwich, CT?
Do you cover the backcountry and the antique-filled homes along Round Hill Road?
Our antique rug has not been washed in twenty years — is heavy intensity needed?
How is the antique wash priced for Greenwich rugs?
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Bring us your Greenwich antique.
Tell us about the piece — antique Persian, Aubusson, Chinese silk, the late-19th-century wool needing a heavy-intensity bath. We arrange complimentary pickup throughout Greenwich, Cos Cob, Old Greenwich, Riverside, Belle Haven, and the backcountry. Washed by hand in our Greenwich atelier.
By hand · By the Cohen family · By appointment