hello this is rug lover mary and today i'm highlighting a chinese hooked rug as you can see it doesn't look that bad on the top which is good this is one of the few that's actually started out in a good condition but for ones that aren't in good condition on top either they fade through wear and sun damage or they get really really gray or stains and things like that as long as the back looks good one thing that you can do is this border that's along the back of the rug you can unstitch it because it's just held together by a little stitch and then you can flip it to the other side and sew it over there and then you can use the back of the rug as the top because it's usually brighter doesn't have a lot of stains on it so if you do have one of these hooked rugs and this is what it looks like from the top it's got these little loops through a canvas backing you can always reuse it as a new rug just flip this little seam over this has been rug lover mary showing you that you can give new life to the chinese hooked rug thank you