Diamond Radiant Grey Handmade Wool Carpet 3' x 5'

The hand-tufted process belongs to the workshop tradition that translates a studio drawing into wool at full architectural scale. A canvas is stretched on a frame, the cartoon is transferred to it, and the colour is laid down strand by strand with a tufting gun. The pattern in front of you was made in that discipline.

The rug was hand-tufted in India over three weeks by 1 tufter and a finisher. Wool was pushed through a stretched cotton canvas one row at a time with a tufting gun, sealed at the back with natural latex and a cotton scrim, and then trimmed by hand with long shears. The relief cut between figure and field is what makes the pattern read at room scale rather than dissolving into noise. The cartoon was drawn at full size before any wool was loaded, and the colour was selected from yarn skeins matched against the original studio drawing under daylight.

The composition

Grey carries the field. The drawing reads clearly because the contrast between motif and ground was cut into the pile by hand after tufting. The wool sheds slightly for the first weeks of use, which is normal and stops once loose fibres have worked themselves out. The dye sits in the fibre rather than on it, which means the surface will settle into the long, soft register that wool always reaches with use rather than fading the way printed surfaces fade.

The piece in a room

3' × 5' (91 × 152 cm). The format anchors a primary bedroom, with the bed centred over the rug and the side tables sitting on the field rather than off it. The drawing extends past the foot of the bed by enough to register as a complete composition. The grey field works against walnut and oak floors, with linen and leather upholstery, and with both painted and limewashed walls.

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, after which the body of the rug stays dense and stable. Professional dry clean every two to three years to restore the lift of the wool.

Reference

• Medium: hand-tufted wool, latex bonded, cotton scrim
• Dimensions: 3' × 5' (91 × 152 cm)
• Hands: 1 tufter and 1 finisher, ~three weeks
• Pile: 12 to 14 mm
• Origin: India

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