For independent rug showrooms
List the pieces that have not moved in three years. Every rug is inspected, fiber tested and certified by people who have been doing it for forty years, before any buyer takes delivery.
No monthly fee. No listing fee. Founding dealer terms on application.
Why this is not another design marketplace
The design marketplaces take a substantial cut, some of them require a membership before you have sold anything, and not one of them puts a hand on the rug. Nobody there checks whether the silk is silk. Our commission sits below theirs, there is no monthly fee and no listing fee, and every piece is physically inspected before a buyer takes delivery.
No membership, no monthly charge, no listing fee. You are not paying for the privilege of having inventory sit on a website.
Burn test, microscopy, knot count, foundation, dye stability, tape measurement, condition map. That is the part no marketplace does, and it is the reason cautious buyers come back to the category.
Commission depends on your volume and your average piece value, so we quote it against your actual floor rather than publishing a number that is wrong for almost everybody. Request terms.
How it works
If you can photograph a rug and get it on a truck, you can use this.
Guided capture walks your salesperson through front, back, fringe, edge, folded corner and pile. The listing will not submit if an angle is missing.
Funds are captured and held by our payments processor. Nobody has the money yet, not the buyer, not you, not us.
Either you ship it to our Myrtle Beach hub, or for oversize and high value pieces our inspector comes to your floor instead.
Burn test and microscopy, knot count, foundation, dye stability, tape measurement, condition map. Two to four business days.
Payout releases on inspection sign off. You are not waiting on the buyer's mood or on a monthly settlement cycle.
Washed if the buyer wants it washed, then out with a numbered certificate and a permanent record page for the rug.
Shipping, stated plainly
We do not quote your freight and we do not book it, because rates depend on your carrier account, your zone and your packed dimensions on the day. Any number we published would be wrong. What we publish instead is how to pack a rug properly and what the carrier limits actually are.
You measure the finished package, weigh it, pick the service and insure it. You know your own carrier rates better than any estimate we could publish.
Carrier limits, the folding technique, an eight step packing sequence and a calculator that tells you whether a specific rug ships parcel or freight.
Certify in Place means the rug is verified on your floor and ships once, straight to the buyer. There is no inbound package to work out at all.
| Leg | Who arranges and pays | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Inbound, you to the hub | You | Your carrier, your account, your insurance. We publish the packing guidance and will give a second opinion on any specific piece before you book. |
| Certify in Place | Nobody ships anything | There is no inbound leg. The rug stays on your floor until it is sold. |
| Outbound, hub to buyer | Buyer | We book it and pass the actual cost through with no markup, calculated at the time of shipping. |
| Failed inspection, misrepresented | You | If a rug is not what the listing said, return shipping is yours. This is the clause that keeps the seal meaningful. |
| Failed inspection, our error | Us | If we got it wrong or we damaged it, we pay to send it home and we make you whole. |
| Buyer returns, rug matched the record | Buyer | Three day window after delivery. |
| Buyer returns, rug did not match | Us | Our record was wrong, so our cost. |
| Listing expires unsold | Your choice | Ship it home, relist it at a revised price, or roll it into The Rug Cellar. |
For oversize and high value
For anything that cannot ship parcel, and anything of high value, our inspector travels to your showroom with the bench kit. Microscope, calipers, tape, burn test. The rug is verified on your floor and ships exactly once, straight to the buyer.
A per visit fee plus a charge per additional rug inspected in the same visit, which falls away entirely above a threshold. Quoted with your dealer terms, and included on your first batch as a founding dealer.
The whole inbound shipment. No packing, no measuring, no weighing, no insuring, no freight booking, and no risk of moving a room size antique twice.
The same numbered certificate and permanent record page. A buyer cannot tell the difference, because there is none.
The standard
A stranger will not send five figures for a rug based on your word and six photographs, and they should not have to. Machine made goods sold as hand knotted, and synthetic sold as silk, are common enough that cautious buyers avoid the category entirely. Verification is the only thing that brings them back.
Front, full back, fringe, selvedge, folded corner and pile macro. The back and the edges are where construction is proven.
Fiber, knot count, foundation, dye stability, measurement and condition mapping. Then washed and rolled if requested.
Not a sample, not a spot check. Every certified piece is handled by a person before a buyer takes delivery.
Certified pieces
Real inventory, real photography, real prices. Open any piece to see the full record, the certificate and how it packs.
Founding dealers
Founding dealers get preferential commission, an included on site inspection visit for the first batch, photography of that batch, and a storage allowance on anything that does not sell in the first cycle. The specifics depend on your volume, your sizes and your average piece value, so they are quoted in writing rather than published.