Rug Tools

Four reference tools, each built from primary sources that are linked on the page. They work without an account and keep nothing you type.

Rug size planner

Your room, your margin, your furniture: which common sizes fit, and which federal flammability standard each size falls under.

Rug label checker

Which of the two federal rug flammability standards applies, the exact FF 2-70 warning wording, and what the fiber label must and need not say.

Fiber care table

Wool, silk, cotton, jute, viscose and synthetics: pests, light, damp and cleaning, every cell cited to a conservation or regulatory source.

Weaving regions field guide

Knot type, materials and a named, dated example in The Met's collection for each tradition, plus a knot-density converter.

How these were made: see our editorial policy.

How we work

An independent reference site, written with AI assistance from published sources (how). No shop, no sponsored placements, no ranked “best of” lists anyone paid to appear in.

01 — Independent

We sell nothing

No shop, no inventory, no affiliate rankings. Display advertising funds the site, it is labelled where it appears, and advertisers see no guide before it runs.

02 — Fibre-specific

Every method names its fibre

No cleaning or repair instruction is published without stating the fibre and construction it is safe for, and where it is unsafe. Damage from cleaning a rug is usually permanent, so a general-purpose tip is worse than none.

03 — Candid limits

We say when we don’t know

Age, origin and value cannot be settled from a photograph. Where that wall is reached, the guide says so and points at what an in-person appraisal would settle.

About what you read here. Everything on Rug Academy is general information. Articles are drafted with AI assistance from published sources, and the ones marked as checked have had every figure compared with the source they cite (see our editorial policy). We say when the evidence is unclear, but we can be wrong, things change, and no article can know your particular situation. Please do your own research and make your own judgement rather than treating anything here as the final word. Prices, products and specifications around rugs and their care change constantly, and what suits one person will not suit another. Check current details yourself, and where a decision involves real money, safety or something you cannot undo, it is worth confirming with a professional rug cleaner or restorer before you act.