Mayamo 44321 Wool Handmade Carpet

Hand-tufted construction took its current commercial form in the United States after the Second World War, when the tufting gun made it possible to produce dense pile rugs in weeks rather than the months a hand-knotted equivalent demands. Indian workshops adopted the technique in the 1970s and have refined it for half a century, marrying the speed of the new tooling to the colour vocabulary of the older Persian and Mughal carpet traditions.

Two tufters and a finisher worked the rug over 4 weeks in India. The wool was gun-tufted into a stretched cotton primary backing, then sealed at the reverse with natural latex and bonded to a cotton scrim. The pile was sheared by hand with long blades to bring the polychrome field to a uniform plane, and a final pass with shears carved the motif a few millimetres clear of the ground so the pattern reads in relief at room scale.

The composition

A single colour, used at full strength, is the most demanding choice in carpet design. polychrome this saturated takes the room's lighting and gives it back at a shifted temperature; the motif sits as a quiet relief rather than a competing event. Hand-spun wool holds the saturation in a way machine-spun yarn does not.

The piece in a room

The rug suits a primary bedroom under the foot of the bed and the bedside passage, a sitting room arranged around a low coffee table, or a study floor under a single armchair and reading lamp. A polychrome field anchors a room with otherwise restrained palette. Walnut and oak flooring both suit the polychrome register; lime-washed walls deepen the read.

Care

Weekly suction vacuuming. Spills lift with cotton and cool water if attended to within the first hour. Expect mild shedding for the first month of use as loose fibres work themselves out of the pile. A professional rug cleaning every three years keeps the polychrome register at its full saturation and refreshes the pile lay. Avoid soaking the rug; the latex backing prefers surface cleaning to deep wet work.

Reference

• Medium: hand-tufted wool, latex bonded, cotton scrim backing
• Dimensions: size as listed
• Pile: 12 mm
• Hands: 2 tufters and 1 finisher, about 4 weeks
• Wool weight: roughly 2.4 kg per square metre
• Origin: India

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