It is one of the most common questions we hear from clients who bring us a cashmere rug for the first time. Is all this shedding normal? And does it ever stop? The honest answers are yes — and mostly. Cashmere shedding is normal and does taper significantly over the first six to twelve months of regular use. But cashmere never fully stops shedding the way a tightly hand-knotted wool rug does. Understanding why tells you everything about how to care for one properly — and when to be concerned. Here’s the full picture, from why cashmere sheds to what construction determines how much, to how professional rug cleaning in Boulder actually helps.

The rug is perfect. The color is right. The design is exactly what you wanted. The only problem is the size. Too long for the hallway. Too wide for the dining room. Too big after a move. At Expert Rug Cleaning in Boulder, we resize handmade rugs, Persian rugs, modern area rugs, handloom rugs, and hand-tufted rugs. Professional precision cutting and edge finishing that makes your rug fit exactly — preserving the design, protecting the structure, and producing a result that looks like it was made to those dimensions. Here's everything you need to know about professional rug resizing in Boulder.

There is more misinformation about wool moth treatment than almost any other topic in the rug care world. People ask us about mothballs, cedar, lavender, freezing, pesticide sprays. Here is what we tell them: there is no single solution that eliminates wool moths completely and permanently. Anyone who tells you otherwise is not being straight with you. Our walk-in freezer is set at 10 degrees Fahrenheit — it kills live moths and larvae and prevents eggs from hatching. But it does not kill the eggs. No commercial freezer does, regardless of how long the rug is frozen. What actually works is a multi-step professional process: mechanical cleaning, freezing, and aggressive wet washing — combined with the maintenance habits that prevent moths from establishing in the first place. Here's the full honest picture.

Every week someone calls us after it already happened. They had a Persian rug worth $3,000. They called their carpet cleaner — the same company that does their wall-to-wall every year. The carpet cleaner came, cleaned the rug in place, and left. Now the red has bled into the cream field. The pile feels harsh and matted. There's a musty smell that wasn't there before. We see this every week in Boulder. And every time it was entirely preventable. Rug cleaning and carpet cleaning are not the same thing. They are not variations of the same process. They are fundamentally different disciplines — different chemistry, different equipment, different technique — and applying one to the job of the other produces results that range from disappointing to catastrophic. Here's exactly why.

Your rug was fine. Then it got wet — from a spill, a steam cleaning, a pet accident, or just a humid Boulder week. And now there's a smell that wasn't there before. Musty, earthy, slightly sour. Here's the honest answer: the wet didn't create the smell. It revealed it. Everything that has been accumulating in the foundation of your rug — uric acid crystals from past pet accidents, bacteria feeding on organic debris, dust mite waste, potentially mold — was sitting dormant in dry conditions. The moisture reactivated all of it simultaneously. Drying it out returns everything to dormancy. The smell diminishes. Then the next humid day it comes back. Because the source was never removed. Here's the full science — and why professional rug cleaning in Boulder is the only thing that actually fixes it.