Leidel LEID-2 Wool Handmade Carpet

The visual vocabulary in this piece carries the trace of a dozen generations of workshop refinement, the neutral ground holding a pattern that earlier centuries would have read as familiar even if they would not have recognised the colour.

The piece took roughly 5 weeks at a single bench, two tufters carrying the field and a third hand finishing. Wool was pushed through a stretched cotton primary canvas one row at a time with a hand-held tufting gun, the colour separations followed off a paper cartoon pinned behind the frame. Once the field was complete, the back was sealed with natural latex and laminated to a cotton scrim that locks the tuft loops in place. The carving step took a finisher about a week with hand shears, cutting the pattern into a low relief that pulls a millimetre or two of shadow into every motif edge. The piece behaves differently in lamp light than in north light.

The composition

The neutral field works as a quiet ground for a pattern that reveals itself on approach. Furniture sits on the rug without competing for attention. The colour is built up from two passes of dye on the same wool rather than a single dipped bath, which is why the saturation reads as depth rather than as flat surface.

The piece in a room

size as listed anchors a primary bedroom, a medium living room, or a sitting area in a larger flat. The neutral pairs cleanly with walnut, oak, teak, and warm stone floors and answers both white and mid-tone walls. Position the front legs of seating onto the field and leave a frame of bare floor around the perimeter so the rug reads as a defined object rather than as wall-to-wall coverage.

Care

Weekly vacuuming with suction only. Spot clean with cool water and a white cloth; do not use detergents that contain optical brighteners on wool. The pile sheds for roughly six weeks from new, then settles. Schedule a professional clean every three years to extend the working life of the latex bond.

Reference

• Medium: hand-tufted New Zealand wool, natural latex bonded, cotton scrim backing
• Dimensions: size as listed
• Construction: hand-tufted, hand-carved finish
• Pile: 15 mm
• Hands: 2 tufters and 1 finisher, ~5 weeks
• Backing: cotton scrim over natural latex
• Origin: India

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