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The Persian Carpet

Oriental Rug Cleaning, Carpet Sales and Installation, Appraisals - Antiques/Jewelry/Items,

About us

The Persian Carpet is a full service Oriental Rug dealer offering fantastic selection of antique and contemporary handmade rugs. It all began in 1962 when Doug bought a small oriental rug for $15.00 during his first research trip to Iran. Over the next 16 years Doug returned to Iran 18 times, quite often purchasing rugs for friends in his spare time. The Persian Carpet was born in 1976, inhabiting a rental corner of an antique store. Since then, The Persian Carpet has grown into a leading regional retail store and a national wholesale, known for the quality and beauty of our merchandise. Our inventory has expanded to include all types of handmade oriental carpets and textiles with a wide variety of styles and designs from Iran, India, Pakistan, Turkey and China. The collection offers antique and new oriental rugs and features an amazing array of transitional and contemporary designs. The Lays began designing , producing and importing their own proprietary rug lines in the early 1990s. Today, The Persian Carpet offers a specialty line of British Arts and Crafts and American Prairie Style carpets that are sold worldwide. A new division of the business, Southwest Looms, produces two lines of carpets inspired by the American southwest. The Dreamcatcher Collection offers realistic reproductions of Navajo rugs and the Pendleton Collection features handknotted pile carpets using Pendleton@ Indian blanket designs. Nelda and Doug's daughter, Cynthia, and her husband Bruce McLaren joined the business in 2002 with the responsibilities for marketing and servicing our wholesale accounts. Additional DBA - Persian Carpet Inc.

Business highlights

48 years of trusted experience

Services we offer

Design assistance, approvals, cleaning, moth proofing, repair, restoration & appraisals.


Accepted payment methods

American Express
Check
Discover
Financing Available
MasterCard
Visa

Photos of past projects

Reviews

4.820 Reviews
Number of StarsImage of DistributionNumber of Ratings
5
95%
4
0%
3
0%
2
0%
1
5%


Rating CategoryRating out of 5
quality
4.8
value
4.6
professionalism
4.8
responsiveness
4.7
punctuality
4.8
Showing 1-20 of 20 reviews

L S.
05/2019
5.0
carpet installation, jewelry appraisal, oriental rug cleaning
  + 1 more
The staff at the Persian Carpet is fantastic! They are incredibly knowledgeable (PhD's!), friendly, helpful, have high integrity, and go the extra mile. Their store is THE place to go for a great selection of beautiful, high quality wool and silk rugs from all over the world. I enjoyed doing business with them on several occasions (purchasing rugs, rug cleaning, rug appraisal), and highly recommend them.
Description of Work: Purchased a high quality wool rug

Rating CategoryRating out of 5
quality
5.0
value
5.0
professionalism
5.0
responsiveness
5.0
punctuality
5.0

Yes, I recommend this pro

Robert V.
07/2017
5.0
oriental rug cleaning
  + -1 more
I had some work. The dog decided to barf on the one good rug in the house. I said, Okay. It's called snack and steal the cat food on the floor. I did send it off to Persian Carpet and they cleaned the rug, I couldn't even tell you where the spot was. So, they did such a wonderful job with it. So, it worked out very nice for us. They deal in all kinds of oriental rugs. It was an oriental wool rug. They worked out really nice. They also would let you take home a rug and try them out or several rugs, try them out and bring them back. If you want to keep one, that's one thing and buy it. But you get to try it out in the house instead of buying it and saying this is not gonna work. I did that one time when we first moved into the house and thought I was going to use exact opposite color of what I ended up with. When you put dark, dark rug down on the floor you could see absolutely everything, every spec of dust. So, I went to the lighter color carpet instead. Wonderful professional. I always will use them.
Description of Work: They cleaned the rug.

Rating CategoryRating out of 5
quality
5.0
value
5.0
professionalism
5.0
responsiveness
5.0
punctuality
5.0

Yes, I recommend this pro

Steven W.
03/2017
5.0
oriental rug cleaning
  + -1 more
Rugs look great.
Description of Work: One medium and one small oriental carpets cleaned.

Rating CategoryRating out of 5
quality
5.0
value
5.0
professionalism
5.0
responsiveness
5.0
punctuality
5.0

Yes, I recommend this pro
$250

Fred H.
10/2015
5.0
oriental rug cleaning
  + -1 more
They are extremely knowledgeable and professional. They did an excellent job and are very responsive and easy to communicate with. We will definitely use them again.
Description of Work: Cleaning an antique oriental rug

Rating CategoryRating out of 5
quality
5.0
value
5.0
professionalism
5.0
responsiveness
5.0
punctuality
5.0

Yes, I recommend this pro
$250

Donna M.
03/2015
5.0
carpet installation, oriental rug cleaning
  + 0 more
Great - did a very good job.
Description of Work: cleaned runners and cut a runner that was too long and finished the end of the runner I was used.

Rating CategoryRating out of 5
quality
5.0
value
5.0
professionalism
5.0
responsiveness
5.0
punctuality
5.0

Yes, I recommend this pro
$350

Kenneth B.
11/2014
5.0
oriental rug cleaning
  + -1 more
They know what they are doing.
Description of Work: We did use The Persian Carpet. One large and two small Persian carpets needed to be cleaned. The large one needed extensive repairs too.

Rating CategoryRating out of 5
quality
5.0
value
4.0
professionalism
5.0
responsiveness
5.0
punctuality
5.0

Yes, I recommend this pro
$829

Marta C.
10/2014
5.0
carpet installation, oriental rug cleaning
  + 0 more
All of the rugs turned out well. The two smaller rugs look like new. The round rug looks great but they were not able to completely get out the red wine stain I had showed them. They had told me that it would be difficult to get it out fully and they were correct. I would say that approximately 85% of the wine stain is gone and it isn't very noticeable. They also suggested what I should do immediately after a spill occurs in the future. They estimated that it would be 2 plus weeks before the carpets were done and they called approximately two weeks after the drop off. I was pleased with the result and would use them again.
Description of Work: I took three oriental rugs to be cleaned. Two were machine made smaller rugs and one was an 8' round Pakistani rug. The two smaller rugs were dirty due to normal wear. The round oriental rug was a higher quality rug and had several stains as well as normal dirt to be removed. I asked for them to be cleaned. They were not the least expensive option for the cleaning process but after review of the website and talking with the service provider I decided to go with them.

Rating CategoryRating out of 5
quality
5.0
value
4.0
professionalism
5.0
responsiveness
4.0
punctuality
5.0

Yes, I recommend this pro
$245

marilyn m N.
05/2014
5.0
carpet installation, oriental rug cleaning
  + 0 more
good
Description of Work: cleaned and repaired numerous rugs

Rating CategoryRating out of 5
quality
5.0
value
5.0
professionalism
5.0
responsiveness
4.0
punctuality
4.0

Yes, I recommend this pro
$300

Nancye B.
04/2014
5.0
carpet installation, oriental rug cleaning
  + 0 more
It went nicely. I would use them again.
Description of Work: I used The Persian Carpet. They cleaned an oriental rug in our living room. I also had a new mat.

Rating CategoryRating out of 5
quality
5.0
value
4.0
professionalism
5.0
responsiveness
5.0
punctuality
5.0

Yes, I recommend this pro
$300

Rebecca S.
04/2014
5.0
carpet installation
  + -1 more
They were excellent.
Description of Work: The Persian Carpet did carpet installation.

Rating CategoryRating out of 5
quality
5.0
professionalism
5.0
responsiveness
5.0
punctuality
5.0

Yes, I recommend this pro

marilyn m N.
07/2013
5.0
carpet installation, oriental rug cleaning, carpet cleaners
  + 1 more
These people know their carpets and quality of rugs. They do an excellent job of cleaning and do not do more than is appropriate which is important in dealing with oriental rugs.
Description of Work: cleaned rugs and provided related services.

Rating CategoryRating out of 5
quality
5.0
value
5.0
professionalism
5.0
responsiveness
4.0
punctuality
5.0

Yes, I recommend this pro
$60

Response from The Persian Carpet
Thank you for your review.

Anita C.
07/2013
1.0
oriental rug cleaning
  + -1 more
Terrible service - first, their communication was terrible. I had to call repeatedly to find out when my rug would be ready to pick up and more than once the person answering the phone would be unable to find any record of my rug even being there. When I finally got the carpet home, it smelled horribly, like a wet dog, unbearable. To their credit, they offered to clean it again at no charge. That took a month, and again, no effort on their part to ever contact me and multiple calls from me to find out when it would be done. Unfortunately, even after a second cleaning it still smelled terrible. I couldn't have it in the house. I didn't want to bother with the Persian Carpet again and took it to another place we had used in the past to clean the same rug, and in one visit they had it smelling like new again. I should emphasize that it didn't smell bad before it went in for cleaning the first time, just had routine wear from use.
Description of Work: wool area rug cleaning

Rating CategoryRating out of 5
quality
2.0
value
3.0
professionalism
2.0
responsiveness
2.0
punctuality
2.0

$200

Response from The Persian Carpet
We are very disappointed that this client was dissatisfied with the experience at our company. We take pride in our customer service and when someone is unhappy we really want to know about it. We clean dozens of rugs every week and we make every effort to treat each rug with personal attention. We are sorry that this client did not feel they were served in this way. We will be refunding her money in full at this time and extend our apologies!

Kathie L.
06/2013
5.0
carpet installation
  + -1 more
When I took the rug in to be cleaned it had a spot on it. They were unsure if the spot would come out but said that they would try. When I went to pick the rug up we un-rolled it and the spot had not come completely out. They took the rug back and re-cleaned it (at no expense to me) and were able to remove the stain.
Description of Work: Cleaning of a kilim area rug

Rating CategoryRating out of 5
quality
5.0
value
5.0
professionalism
5.0
responsiveness
5.0
punctuality
5.0

Yes, I recommend this pro
$250

Response from The Persian Carpet
Thank you for your review.

Kyle W.
07/2012
5.0
carpet installation
  + -1 more
excellent experience overall- let us take some runners home to try out
Description of Work: I had two carpets cleaned and was very pleased with the service. Alberto in particular was very professional and gave very good advice as to how to go about the cleaning process for a large chinese rug. They are also always very knowledgable and helpful.

Rating CategoryRating out of 5
quality
5.0
value
5.0
professionalism
5.0
responsiveness
5.0
punctuality
5.0

Yes, I recommend this pro
$500

NANCY M.
01/2012
5.0
carpet installation
  + -1 more
They were thorough and on schedule.
Description of Work: The Persian Carpet cleaned and restored an antique oriental rug for me and they did an excellent job.

Rating CategoryRating out of 5
quality
5.0
value
5.0
professionalism
5.0
responsiveness
5.0
punctuality
5.0

Yes, I recommend this pro
$500

NANCY U.
01/2012
5.0
oriental rug cleaning
  + -1 more
Overall, the experience was good. Everything was acceptable.
Description of Work: They cleaned a wool oriental rug for us.

Rating CategoryRating out of 5
quality
5.0
professionalism
5.0
responsiveness
5.0
punctuality
5.0

Yes, I recommend this pro

Response from The Persian Carpet
Thank you for your review!

LACEY W.
01/2012
5.0
oriental rug cleaning
  + -1 more
We use them regularly. We're perfectly satisfied with them.
Description of Work: We have a lot of old, valuable rugs. They clean these and take care of any necessary repairs, when needed. They're honest about fixing things that need to be fixed or don't need to be fixed, keeping the value of the rug in mind.

Rating CategoryRating out of 5
quality
5.0
value
5.0
professionalism
5.0
responsiveness
5.0
punctuality
5.0

Yes, I recommend this pro

Response from The Persian Carpet
Thank you for your review!

Karen L.
01/2012
5.0
oriental rug cleaning, carpet installation
  + 0 more
They have some really pretty arts and crafts rugs that you can't really find anywhere else. Their prices are a bit higher than others, but I think you get value for what you pay for.
Description of Work: We bought rugs from them in the past, and it's been a good experience. We had them also clean several rugs.

Rating CategoryRating out of 5
quality
5.0
professionalism
5.0
responsiveness
5.0
punctuality
5.0

Yes, I recommend this pro

Response from The Persian Carpet
Thank you for your review. We design and produce the line of Arts & Crafts rugs ourselves. Hope you are enjoying yours!

NORMAN K.
01/2012
5.0
carpet installation
  + -1 more
They were pleasant to work with, listened to what we were looking for, showed us a large selection, and gave us a good price. It was a positive experience overall.
Description of Work: We purchased a rug from them several years ago.

Rating CategoryRating out of 5
quality
5.0
value
5.0
professionalism
5.0

Yes, I recommend this pro

Response from The Persian Carpet
Thank you for your review!

Robert N.
01/2012
5.0
oriental rug cleaning
  + -1 more
The experience was good overall. Their price was reasonable for the work that they did. They were very helpful and the rugs were finished when they said they would be. I'd use their services again!
Description of Work: They cleaned a couple of rugs.

Rating CategoryRating out of 5
quality
5.0
value
3.0
professionalism
5.0
responsiveness
5.0
punctuality
5.0

Yes, I recommend this pro

Response from The Persian Carpet
We're glad you were satisfied with our cleaning service. We use the best methods available to dust and wash handmade rugs. We handle every rug by hand.

    Contact information

    5634 Durham Chapel Hill Blvd, Durham, NC 27707

    www.persiancarpet.com

    Service hours

    Monday:
    10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
    Tuesday:
    10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
    Wednesday:
    10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
    Thursday:
    10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
    Friday:
    10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
    Saturday:
    10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

    Licensing

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    Service Categories

    Oriental Rug Cleaning,
    Carpet Sales and Installation,
    Appraisals - Antiques/Jewelry/Items,
    Carpet Cleaning,
    Interior Design and Decorating

    FAQ

    The Persian Carpet is currently rated 4.8 overall out of 5.

    Monday: 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM

    Tuesday: 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM

    Wednesday: 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM

    Thursday: 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM

    Friday: 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM

    Saturday: 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

    The Persian Carpet accepts the following forms of payment: American Express,Check,Discover,Financing Available,MasterCard,Visa
    No, The Persian Carpet does not offer free project estimates.
    No, The Persian Carpet does not offer eco-friendly accreditations.
    No, The Persian Carpet does not offer a senior discount.
    No, The Persian Carpet does not offer emergency services.
    No, The Persian Carpet does not offer warranties.
    The Persian Carpet offers the following services: Design assistance, approvals, cleaning, moth proofing, repair, restoration & appraisals.

    Contact information

    5634 Durham Chapel Hill Blvd, Durham, NC 27707

    www.persiancarpet.com

    Service hours

    Monday:
    10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
    Tuesday:
    10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
    Wednesday:
    10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
    Thursday:
    10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
    Friday:
    10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
    Saturday:
    10:00 AM - 5:00 PM