Not a rug but a suzani embroidery.
This was about 7 years ago; I had a bunch of olefin rugs in for cleaning so I let my helper wash them did a good job too. Anyway he finishes the last rug and keeps going and grabs the suzani off a table nearby (wasn’t on the wash pile) bleed the colors out then comes and asks me for help.
I was able to improve it but not to my or the owners liking. It was a 6-800 textile and not too hard to find the owner though it was worth in the 1,200.00 range so I said let’s make it an even 1,500.00 I still do work for this person, their business and other family members. Between personal and their business I probably did 30K worth of work for them last year a good return on my 1,500 investment.
The employee didn't last!