Rug cleaning
in Sonoma.

Sonoma’s oldest rugs live closest to the Sonoma Plaza, the largest town square in California, laid out in 1835 around the adobe walls of Mission San Francisco Solano — the last mission built in Alta California and the only one raised after Mexican independence. Houses on The Eastside, a walkable grid of streets just off the square, run from nineteenth-century cottages to early-1900s bungalows, and the rugs that come out of them are often family pieces that have never left the house. Move out toward Lovall Valley and the Carriger Road corridor, where working vineyards and small ranches sit on larger parcels, and rug sizes grow with them: nine-by-twelves and larger, often set over reclaimed wood or tile rather than original fir. Fryer Creek, a newer creekside pocket on the valley floor, holds rugs bought with the house rather than inherited, and shows more everyday soil than sun fade or dry rot. Sonoma’s warm, dry summers push into the mid-eighties with heat that pulls moisture out of old wool, so fringe and edge binding often need rehydrating before any wash begins. We treat every rug — mission-adjacent antique or new vineyard-house piece — with the same twelve-step cold-water immersion, testing dye before agitation and preserving the lanolin in older wool. That collection is treated as its own trip rather than a quick stop nearby, and the crew that washes the rug is the same one that brings it home.

Sonoma falls outside the range where we run frequent routes, so pickups are set up individually rather than tacked onto an existing stop. Call or text with a request, and we’ll find a window that works before confirming it with you. Our own team handles the drive to Newark for the full cold-water wash and any repair, then brings the rug home once it’s finished. There’s no fee for pickup or delivery anywhere in Sonoma.