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Carpets are one of the most important things in a house that should be cleansed properly. As much as possible, Home owners should hire cleaners that specializes in carpet cleaning at least twice a year. If you want to maintain the original beauty of a carpet, it must be maintained before and after the general cleaning to ensure the preservation of beauty and health of the carpet. As you can see, carpets should be thoroughly vacuumed routinely. It is because of the fact that vacuuming carpets doesn't only remove soil and other dirt from the carpet to keep it looking nice, beautiful and neat but it also extends the durability or life of the carpet. While vacuuming, you should learn how to use the slow stroke technique. It is when you slide the vacuum slowly following horizontal strokes one line after another so that you can absorb the soil and dirt on the carpet very well. Also, it is advisable that you repeat the slow stroke technique at least one to three times in one vacuuming session.

In keeping a carpet in its healthiest state, it is very important that you weekly vacuum it or even daily in high traffic areas. This is very important especially to the high class brands like the Bigelow carpet. If you have problems dealing with different stains that you encounter in your carpet, it is advisable that you get at least some of the basic information about it and information on how to get rid of it. First of all, surface soil is a basic problem in dealing with carpets. Shoes and food crumbs bring and create dry soil that can stay on the surface of a carpet for a short time. The problem is when it is left unnoticed it will embed itself into the carpet fibers. The perfect examples of dirt that can be easily removed with the use of a vacuum are pieces of paper, threads, pet hairs and etc. If these kinds of surface soil aren't removed as soon as possible, the dirt and its oils will probably work its way down into the depths of the carpet allowing for a more complicated way of cleaning it off the carpet.

Another type of carpet problems is called the deep soil. Dry or Wet soil can sometimes sink down into carpet in a matter of seconds. Wet or dry dirt can be both removed through extensive vacuuming techniques; like running the vacuum over the soiled area thoroughly and in a manner of several rounds before moving to the next area. In vacuuming your carpets like the Bigelow Carpet, you should learn to be careful when you are in the area rug part. When the vacuum reaches the rug's fringes, you should tilt the vacuum up a little so that the fringes won't get caught up in the suction mechanics of the vacuum.

Though carpet cleaning can be done by professionals, regular vacuuming done by your own or someone in your house should be done effectively to maintain the carpet's durability and beauty. You should learn to love your carpets especially when it's a Bigelow Carpet.

One of the oldest known carpets was referred to as a fresco handloom which was discovered in 1953 in the land of Egypt. It dates from the 1480 B.C. In the year 1960, a rug woven in a Pazyryc was discovered in a Mongolian tomb which was frozen in hardy ice. The rug contains some weft and warp fibers and some knots called ghiordes which dates back to 480 B.C and is very similar of the present well valued and highly priced Persian rugs. For only as little as 200 years old in the United States of America (USA), carpet making is very young compared to other civilizations before. William Sprague of Philadelphia is credited to the first carpet mill in the year 1971 where he first opened a plant for carpet making. In the early 1800s various plants that focused on the production of woven carpet sprang up in the Middle Atlantic States and in New England. There is one plant that operated and manufactured carpets were in Little Falls, New Jersey until the year 1979 was the Beattie Manufacturing Company. A gentleman named Bigelow, Erastus or Erastus Bigelow reinvented and resurrected the industry of woven carpet in the year 1839. His brother, Horatio, built the company who produced all of it. The brothers named the company the “Clinton Company” after the DeWitt Clinton where they showed great fondness and admiration.

By the year 1850, their business was a success as their productions were tripled. The year 1845 was Erastus' year because he opened a second plant around Bigelow, Erastus' newly patented business that produced gingham, the generation's very popular fabric because of its brightly colored nature. The town where Erastus' plant stands changed its name to Clintonville because it grew tremendously because of the plant. Many people contributed to the company as eager and hardworking shop keepers and workers. After the plant was kept standing, rails were laid and Clintonville was a fruitful town. Erastus' hunger for innovation, advancement and development left him having 35 different and unique patents. In 1877, he introduced the very first broadloom carpet that we still know and prefer to use today. Erastus Bigelow is the father of the Bigelow Carpet.

In the year 1849, the development of the so called Jacquard Mechanism was introduced to the industry and the Clinton Company in Massachusetts started producing the so called “Brussels Carpet”. The powerful loom was then modified and revamped in a very low level to be able to produce the Wilton Carpet. After months of gaining mutual connection and trust with each other, the Hartford Company and the Clinton Company merged to form the Bigelow Company, or as what many people refer to as theBigelow Carpet.

The Bigelow Carpet or the Bigelow Company produced the world's finest carpets from the year 1849 up to year 1933. The company's carpets were largely favored by many socialites and were installed in highly prestigious places like the Whitehouse, St. Patrick's Cathedral and the very famous, Titanic.