The place where I am learning to carriage drive, as well as being a pro driving yard also run a rug cleaning and repair business, they are the people who get the rugs once you have taken them into the tack shop to be sent away to be cleaned. They have rows of massive washing machines and get through washing over 70 rugs a day every day 7 days a week from everywhere from racing yards (they are in newmarket) to local tack shops.
I asked them today what sort of rugs that wear the best out of all the rugs that they clean. Their recommendation - Horsewear Ireland, their brands Rambo and Rhino especially. They said that they hardly ever have to repair stitching or buckles etc on them and unless they have been chewed or ripped on something, they wear exceptionally better than other makes and are made with better thread, cloth and filling than most others.
Just thought it might help someone.
I asked them today what sort of rugs that wear the best out of all the rugs that they clean. Their recommendation - Horsewear Ireland, their brands Rambo and Rhino especially. They said that they hardly ever have to repair stitching or buckles etc on them and unless they have been chewed or ripped on something, they wear exceptionally better than other makes and are made with better thread, cloth and filling than most others.
Just thought it might help someone.