About The Instructor

Ruth Travis holds a degree in Textiles from the University of Tennessee. She is an internationally known author and trainer. She began her career in the industry by founding a diversified carpet and fabric cleaning business, Interior Care, in Chattanooga, Tennessee in 1988. She began selling rugs in 1995 with the founding of her rug sales outlet, the Rug Exchange. RL Seminars, Inc. was founded by Ruth in 1998.

RL Seminars was the first to expand its two-day Rug Cleaning Technician (RCT) course to three days in 2006. The three-day course included far more hands-on training and multiple demonstrations designed to provide students with actual hands-on cleaning and rug identification from start to finish. The RCT course not only includes identifying exotic fibers and rugs, but it also includes demonstrations of multiple cleaning and drying systems for rugs.

Since 1988, Ruth has written dozens of articles for industry trade magazines. She has served as President of the Society of Cleaning and Restoration Technicians for five terms. She has served as Vice President, President and Marketing Chair of the IICRC and was instrumental in creating or revising many of its current 22 certification categories. She currently is an IICRC-approved instructor for Color Repair Technician, Rug Cleaning Technician and Senior Carpet Inspector Certification Categories. She has participated in writing the IICRC S300 Standard and Reference Guide for Professional Upholstery Cleaning for the industry in 2000, and in the revisions of IICRC S100 Standard and Reference Guide for Professional Carpet Cleaning in 2002 and 2008.

Ruth has served the industry on many boards and studies. She currently serves as Director of the Society of Cleaning and Restoration Technicians (SCRT).

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