Leidel LEID-3 Wool Handmade Carpet

Carpet design as a serious decorative practice was codified across the long stretch of West and Central Asia between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries. The neutral palette in this piece is a contemporary reading of that codified library.

The piece took roughly 5 weeks at a single bench, two tufters carrying the field and a third hand finishing. Wool was loaded into the tufting gun one colour at a time and pushed through a stretched canvas in long passes that follow the cartoon transferred to the back of the frame. Latex and scrim were applied at the end to lock every loop in place. The final pass was a hand-shear by a single finisher, the pile carved down to relieve the figure above the field by two to three millimetres so the pattern reads at room scale rather than dissolving into noise. The shear marks are visible on close inspection and are the signature of hand finishing.

The composition

A saturated neutral field with figure work in tonal contrast, the kind of pairing that holds a room together without dominating it. The wool catches light along the cut pile and absorbs it across the carved relief, so the surface reads as two different materials depending on the angle.

The piece in a room

At size as listed the rug holds the central area of a living room or a primary bedroom. The neutral has enough weight to anchor a seating arrangement without flattening the rest of the palette. Position so the rug extends at least eighteen inches beyond the seating on three sides; the eye reads the negative-space frame as part of the composition.

Care

Vacuum once a week, suction only, no rotating brush. Blot any spill with a dry cloth and follow with a barely damp cloth if needed. The first month or two will produce some loose fibre from the freshly cut pile, which is expected and stops on its own. A specialist dry clean every three to four years keeps the surface fresh and lifts the dust the household vacuum cannot reach.

Reference

• Medium: hand-tufted New Zealand wool, natural latex bonded, cotton scrim backing
• Dimensions: size as listed
• Construction: hand-tufted, hand-carved finish
• Pile: 13 mm
• Hands: 2 tufters and 1 finisher, ~5 weeks
• Backing: cotton scrim over natural latex
• Origin: India

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