Rug Pad Care

Vacuum the pad when you rotate or clean the rug, and spot clean with water and a mild detergent. Do not saturate it or machine wash it, and let it dry fully before the rug goes back down.

• Luxury rug care

A densified felt pad in residential use commonly outlasts the rug above it and can be re-used across rug changes. Fiber-and-rubber composites, by contrast, typically break down within a few years.

• Materials and sustainability

Replace it when it has permanently compressed under heavy furniture, when it has been water damaged, or when it no longer matches the rug it sits under. A pad that is too small is worse than no pad at the edges.

• Rug pad care

Yes. The pad moves with the rug. If the new room requires a smaller footprint, remove perforation strips rather than buying a new pad.

• Perforation technology

Roll it, never fold it, and store it dry and off a concrete floor. Folding sets creases into felt that take a long time to relax out.

• Installation guides

Rotate the rug seasonally to even out sun fade and traffic wear. The pad can stay put, and rotating the rug on a full-size pad does not expose an unsupported edge.

• Luxury rug care

Lift the rug and the pad, dry the floor completely, and dry the pad flat before reassembling. Felt holds water, and leaving a wet pad on a wood floor is how a spill becomes a floor repair.

• Floors and protection FAQs

It improves it. A rug on a firm felt pad resists being pulled and rippled by a beater bar, so the vacuum works the pile instead of dragging the rug.

• Luxury rug care

A dense felt pad, latex-free, cut to the rug's exact dimensions. Antique Persian rugs fail first at the unsupported edge and under furniture load, so full coverage matters more than thickness. Avoid anything with a tacky backing, which can transfer to an aged foundation and cannot be reversed.

• Rug pads for fine rugs
• Luxury rug care

Felt, cut to size. A hand-knotted wool rug needs its foundation supported evenly across the whole footprint, and it needs to breathe. Densified felt does both. Order at the rug's larger measurement, since handmade rugs rarely measure the same at both ends.

• Rug pads for fine rugs
• Measuring an out-of-square rug

Yes, in two ways. An undersized pad leaves the perimeter unsupported, so every footstep flexes the foundation against a hard floor — that is where old rugs give out. And a latex or rubber backing can degrade and transfer onto an aged foundation, which is not reversible.

• Protecting hand-knotted and antique rugs