Hi- When cleaning oriental fringes, what is a way to prep them for cleaning-Would you put a drop cloth ubder the fringe or cotton towels to protect the floor, and then spray them and hand brush them? When finished how would one go about rinsing the fringes-with a small extractor? Any bit of info would be greatly appreciated.

I would suggest cotton towels or pads. Use an encapsulating cleaner such as Releasit Encap DS so you don't have to worry about rinsing.

Could you just use encap punch on the whole rug and fringe?-after testing for colorfast of course

Don't know why not.

The only thing is - with encap you cant really use a cotton pad-and if you are not going to use the challenger and have to use the stair tool, then what would you recommend for the pad??

Not really true. Encap Punch is intended to be extracted by one medium or another. A cotton pad is a medium of extraction.