Rug cleaning
in Fairfield.

Travis Air Force Base has anchored Fairfield’s economy since 1943, when the Army Air Corps built it as Fairfield-Suisun Army Air Base; it was renamed for Brigadier General Robert F. Travis in 1950 and remains the city’s largest employer. Military families rotate through on a few years’ posting, and the rugs we collect near the base tend to be well-traveled — packed and unpacked more than most, with edges and fringe that need reweaving before it shows. Inland, Cordelia began in 1853 as a whaling captain’s town called Bridgeport, renamed a few years later for his wife; its older homes and the newer subdivisions built up around them both sit in the hot, dry inland air Fairfield shares with the rest of Solano County, which pulls moisture out of wool and lanolin faster than coastal fog does in Oakland or Berkeley. Out past Rockville, where a stone chapel and an old cemetery mark one of the county’s oldest settlements, wool rugs pick up dust from the surrounding grasslands. And a few miles off, the Jelly Belly factory means plenty of Fairfield kitchens have small visitors and small spills. We collect from all of it — base housing, Cordelia hillsides, Rockville acreage — with the same twelve-step cold-water wash and enzymatic pre-treatment for pet and food stains.

Fairfield is about sixty-six miles from our Newark atelier, up I-80 across the Carquinez Bridge. That’s a longer trip than most of our routes, so pickups here are arranged one at a time rather than run on a fixed schedule — call or text and we’ll set a window and confirm it quickly. Our own crew does the collecting, washing and returning; we never hand a rug to a courier or contractor. Customer service answers 8am to 8pm, seven days, if your plans change.