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A finished edge turns leftover carpet into a rug
A cut piece of carpet has a raw edge, and a raw edge frays and unravels. Binding and serging are the two ways to finish it. Once the edge is finished, a remnant from your installation or a piece from the carpet store becomes an area rug, a hallway runner or a set of stair treads in exactly the size you need.
It is also how a worn rug gets a second life. Desert dust and grit are hard on rug edges, especially in entries and family rooms. When the edge frays, re-finishing it stops the damage.
What customers bring us
- Carpet left over after an installation
- Remnants chosen at a carpet store, which we can collect from the store
- Area rugs with frayed or worn edges
- Rugs that need cutting down to fit a different room
- Runners for long hallways and treads for wood stairs
- Mats and rugs for RVs, boats, offices and entries
- Round, angled or odd shapes, including cut-outs for floor vents
Want a designer border, a backing or a pieced design? That is custom rug fabrication.
Edge Finishes We Offer
Standard Binding
A durable binding tape is sewn around the edge. Clean, simple and a good fit for most rugs, runners and mats.
Serging
Yarn is wrapped around and around the edge for the look of a hand-finished rug, with a little more body and color. We match the yarn to the carpet as closely as we can.
Applied Fringe
Fringe can be added to the ends of a made-up rug for a traditional look. It is purely a style choice; some people love it and some do not.
Wide Binding
A fabric border that shows on the face of the rug, anywhere from about one inch to a foot wide, in canvas, leather, cork or a fabric you choose.
What to expect from binding and serging
How to measure
Decide the finished size you want and measure its length and width. For a runner, measure the hallway and leave floor showing on each side. For stairs, measure one tread and count them. Edge work is figured on the distance around the piece, so those measurements are what we need to quote.
Getting the carpet to us
Bring the carpet to our facility, or we can pick it up from the floor store where you bought it. When a fabric border is involved, the fabric is shipped to us directly.
Honest limits
Not every carpet suits every finish; some border styles can only be done on certain carpet types. A yarn match on an existing rug will be close rather than exact, because we are matching the yarn, not using the original. Adding fringe does not raise the value of a rug, and cutting the original fringe off a hand-made rug damages it; see rug repair and restoration for the better options.
Timing and price
Both depend on the size of the piece and the finish you choose. Call with your measurements and we will give you a quote and a completion date.
From our job files
Leftover carpet from a north Scottsdale theater room became a loose-lay rug for the bar area, serged on the sides and fringed on the ends: Fringe Application. More in our carpet binding guide.
