Please help with 2 rugs.

Both of these are 8' x 11. I have very little experience or knowledge when it come to rugs so any help would be appreciated. I don't think these are antique but I don't know if they were purchased 5 years ago or 60 years ago. Is there a way to tell? Are these machine woven? How do you tell if they are? How do you determine the value on these? Would you call these Oriental style rugs, Asian style? Thank you.

Rug #1 has a damaged corner and some of the red color has bled












Rug #2 No bleeding but it does have a few small spots where the rug is thinner from rubbing or maybe a pet chewing?

 

They look machine made, some time in the last 30 years probably. I don't know enough to say more.

 

Thank you for looking.

 

What evelyb said. Clues, which your photos illustrate excellently:

• Serged edges
• Applied fringe
• VERY flat, smooth back esp compared to hand-tufted
• Synthetic fiber (very unusual IME to find a handmade rug made of synthetics)

 

Thank you for the detailed explanation. I'm learning a lot from this board. Now to research pricing. I don't have a clue about that either. The last time I bought an area rug (similar to rug #1 above) it was from a salvage store called Building 19 and it was only $50 and larger than these.

 

...Building 19...


Like area 51?

 

Kind of. I'm imagining a Big Lots style place, or more regionally an Ocean State Job Lot.

 

Ocean State Job Lot is like Bloomingdale's compared to Building 19 as far as how it looks inside. Building 19 was a little scary but worth it for the deals they had. They had better quality than Ocean State most of the time. Unfortunately, they just went out of business. They said they couldn't compete with competitive bids for salvage from internet sellers.

 

Oh well. We had a place called Amazing and later Dave's Deals that ran into the same thing. They had some junk and some great stuff, but the big guys forced them out of business.