Hi Carl,
Can you spell: t e d i o u s ?
By the time you are done trying to tease loose wefts back into place and see that their thickness is no longer consistent and that there are broken bits everywhere, you'll begin to realize that the nursery rhyme about putting things back together again makes a good point.
Having done this twice now, with no plan for a third session, I would recommend setting your line of defense at the outer boundary of the red wefts and letting everything outside of the run its natural course.
My sense is that it is best to set a protective line of stitches in a competent section of the foundation. Otherwise the stitch loops can become highly variable in width, and when tensioned up, give a wrinkled appearance that was not in the original restoration plan. And if not tensioned up, then the open section is so long that stuff catches on it and the thread breaks and you're back to square one.
Plus, you will probably, vastly, underestimate the length of thread required to cross the rug.
If you have a sewing machine available consider using it for the protective stitching in the competent kilim region and use the rest of your availlable time to read, bake bread, or brew beer, or garden.
Regards
Chuck
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