Fort Worth's Oriental & Persian Rug Cleaning Expert.
Our Experience
Fort Worth's Camp Bowie Boulevard has been home to locally owned businesses since the 1920s. Some of the originals are still open. C.T. Rugs belongs to that same tradition. Tom, the owner, learned rug care in Persia. He brought that knowledge to Fort Worth, set up shop on Curzon Avenue just off Camp Bowie, and has been hand-washing Persian, oriental, and hand-knotted rugs ever since. Over 30 years in one city, one neighborhood, one specialty. Fort Worth homeowners across the west side trust him with rugs that have been in their families for decades.
A Neighborhood Built to Last. A Business That Matches It.
Camp Bowie Boulevard has been a working corridor since the 1890s. Blue Bonnet Bakery, Roy Pope Grocery, and Kincaid's all opened their doors on the boulevard between the 1920s and 1940s and still operate today. Cbdistrict That is not an accident. This stretch of Fort Worth attracts businesses that are good at something specific and stick around.
The boulevard's historic Thurber bricks have been there since the beginning, and locals have fought to keep them. The street links the city's west side to downtown and carries with it more than a century of neighborhood identity. Fort Worth Magazine
Today the Camp Bowie District spans nine miles from University Avenue to Loop 820 and is home to more than 800 businesses. Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce It covers distinct zones: The Bricks near the Cultural District, Ridglea Village further west, and Camp Bowie West beyond that. Tom's shop sits in the middle of all of it, a few blocks from world-class museums and the kinds of homes that hold world-class rugs.
C.T. Rugs fits this neighborhood exactly. It is not a
franchise. It is not a volume operation. It is one expert who has spent 30 years learning how to clean rugs correctly.
Why the Cultural District Produces Serious Rug Owners
Fort Worth's Cultural District grew out of the infrastructure of the WWI Camp Bowie training ground and today radiates from the intersection where West 7th Street crosses University Drive and becomes Camp Bowie Boulevard. FTWtoday Several of the world's finest museums anchor the area. The Kimbell Art Museum, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, and the Amon Carter Museum are all within walking distance of each other.
Homeowners who live near that concentration of art and architecture take the things in their homes seriously. The rugs in Rivercrest, Westover Hills, and the older estates along the west side are not impulse purchases. Many are antiques. Many were bought abroad or passed down. They deserve more than a carpet cleaner with a hot water extraction machine.
Tom knows the difference. He has been cleaning rugs for the people who live in these neighborhoods for over three decades.
Oriental Rugs Are Not Carpet. They Should Not Be Cleaned Like Carpet.
This is where most Fort Worth rug owners make a costly mistake.
A standard carpet cleaning company will clean a Persian rug the same way they clean wall-to-wall carpet. Hot water extraction, high pressure, fast turnaround. It works fine on synthetic carpet. On a hand-knotted wool or silk rug with natural dyes, it can bleed colors, flatten pile, and shorten the life of a piece that was built to last a century.
Oriental and Persian rugs are hand-knotted textiles. The foundation, the pile, and the dye chemistry all behave differently than machine-made carpet. A Kashan wool rug from Iran and a Pakistani tribal rug require different water temperatures, different pH levels, and different drying methods. Getting that wrong does not just leave a rug looking dull. It can cause permanent dye loss and fiber damage.
Tom tests every rug before washing. He identifies the fiber content, checks dye stability, and picks the cleaning method for that specific piece. That is not a marketing claim. It is the basic standard of professional hand-wash rug care, and most carpet cleaners simply do not operate that way.
Services
- Oriental & Persian Rug Cleaning: Full hand-wash service for Persian, Turkish, Afghan, Pakistani, and tribal rugs. Tom inspects, tests, washes, and flat-dries every piece. The process takes longer than steam cleaning. It does not damage rugs that steam cleaning would.
- High-End Rug Cleaning: Silk rugs, antique pieces, and investment-grade pieces from Kashan, Tabriz, Isfahan, and Qum require a careful hand. Tom has cleaned them for over 30 years. He tells you upfront what the rug can and cannot recover from.
- Custom Rug Repair & Restoration: Fringe reattachment, side cord repair, re-weaving, and patching. Tom matches fiber type and color as closely as the original allows. Done well, a repair disappears into the rug.
- Stain & Odor Removal: Pet accidents are the most common call Tom gets. Urine behaves differently in wool than in silk, and differently again in older rugs with natural dyes. He identifies fiber and dye type first, then treats accordingly. Most cases improve significantly.
- Rug Sales: C.T. Rugs carries a wide selection of Persian, Indo-Persian, Pakistani, Chinese, Navajo, silk, flat-woven Kilim, hand-knotted, antique, needlepoint, and animal hide rugs. Tom knows what he is selling because he knows how to care for all of it.
Serving Fort Worth's Historic Neighborhoods
C.T. Rugs serves customers across Fort Worth and the greater DFW area. Homeowners in the following neighborhoods bring rugs to Tom, or he picks them up directly:
Historic Southside (76104) — One of the oldest neighborhoods in Fort Worth, with Craftsman bungalows and cottages built in the early 1900s. Homes here often have hardwood floors and older rugs to match. The neighborhood sits just southeast of downtown, near Evans and Rosedale Avenues.
Fairmount (76104) — Part of the Fairmount-Southside National Historic District, this neighborhood includes homes built between 1883 and 1907. These houses contain some of the most significant residential architecture in the Southwest. The rugs inside tend to match the homes.
Rivercrest & Westover Hills (76107) — Fort Worth's established west-side neighborhoods, with older estates and formal living spaces. Many customers here have antique Persian pieces in main rooms and entryways.
Cultural District & West 7th (76107, 76104) — A mix of longtime Fort Worth residents and newer homeowners, with higher-traffic rugs in open-floor-plan homes.
Keller, Southlake & Colleyville (76248, 76092) — Newer builds with large area rugs that see heavy daily use. Tom picks up and delivers.