Abramo Persian Traditional Floral Blue Hand Knotted Wool Carpet 63143

The floral repeat, refined over four centuries in the Persian and Mughal court workshops, holds together by rhythm rather than incident. The eye reads it as a single field. This piece is hand-knotted in wool in India.

A small team worked the pattern across several months, every knot tied by hand against a vertical loom. The wool was selected for staple length and lustre, the cotton warp tensioned to keep the field square as the pile grew row by row. After the last row was tied, the pile was sheared, the back was sized, and the rug was hand-washed and laid out to set in indirect sun.

The composition

A blue ground, a floral repeat in deeper tones, and a quietly drawn border. The rug is built to age. Saturation softens, contrast deepens, the field warms. A naturally dyed wool of this kind does not arrive complete; it arrives ready to start.

What you are buying

Comparable hand-knotted carpets in this tradition, woven in equivalent wool and at this density, sit in the international auction range when they appear in good condition. This is a new weaving in the same idiom, on the same kind of loom, at the same standard. The rug appreciates with use rather than depreciating. There is almost no other object you put on a floor with that property.

The piece in a room

Used at the size as listed, the piece works as a medium living area, primary bedroom, or formal sitting room. Ivory, lime-washed white, or a deep terracotta accent wall let the blue field settle as a considered ground. The drawing reads from a standing viewer, then resolves at chair-side. Furniture sits on the rug rather than around it.

Conservation

Rotate a half turn each spring and autumn so light and traffic age the rug evenly. Vacuum weekly with suction only, beater bar disengaged. Blot spills with a clean cotton cloth, never rub. A wool-trained conservator should hand-wash the piece every five to seven years. Cared for this way, the rug runs eighty to a hundred years and outlives its first owners.

Reference

• Medium: hand-knotted wool on cotton foundation
• Dimensions: size as listed
• Construction: Persian asymmetric knot
• Hands: a small team, several months
• Pile: hand-spun wool, sheared close
• Dye: colour-fast wool
• Origin: India

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