Delhi Modish DLD-54 Wool Handmade Carpet

The studio drawing for this piece was redone three times before it went to the loom. Each version softened a corner, opened a margin, eased the relationship between figure and ground. What looks effortless on the floor took the longer journey to get there. The drawing is what separates a tufted carpet that carries a room from a tufted carpet that fills it.

A pair of tufters worked this rug for three weeks in India, a finisher took it through the shearing and binding stage. Wool over cotton canvas, latex-bonded, scrim-backed in the conventional way for tufted carpets. The binding tape on the perimeter was applied last, by hand, so the edges sit flat against the floor without curling.

The composition

The palette holds natural earth tones, with the over-dyed wool carrying a faint shift at certain angles the way a glaze sits over a pigment in oil paint. The geometry is open enough to live with patterned upholstery and graphic enough to carry a quieter room on its own. The pile is sheared at a single height across the field, so the eye reads the colour rather than the construction.

The piece in a room

The size as listed works inside its room cleanly without claiming a wall. The rug rewards a balanced furniture plan and steps back when a single architectural detail wants to lead. At any scale the construction holds the same character: the wool sits with the same hand, the dye carries the same depth, and the surface ages the same way over years of use. Holds its own next to a strong art piece without competing with it. The natural earth tones field can carry a single dominant work on the wall above without flattening either the rug or the picture.

Care

Vacuum weekly with the beater bar disengaged. Every tufted rug loses fibre to a beater bar regardless of price. Blot spills with a clean cotton cloth, never rub. Expect light shedding for the first six weeks of use as loose fibres work themselves out of the pile; the body of the rug is unaffected. Professional dry clean every three years to keep the pile lifted and the colour fresh.

Reference

• Medium: hand-tufted wool, latex bonded, cotton scrim back
• Dimensions: size as listed
• Pile: 12 mm wool
• Origin: India

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