Rugsville Sultanabad Rustic Vegetable dyes Wool Carpet 8' x 10'

Rustic Sultanabad is the working term for the village dialect of the larger Sultanabad tradition, a vocabulary built around weak madder, undyed cream wool, and a softly drawn vine repeat that lets the irregularities of the loom and the dye bath read as part of the composition rather than as flaw. The drawing carried in this rug sits firmly inside that village language, with a quiet medallion implied rather than fixed and a single guard band closing the border.

Three weavers shared the loom in India for roughly six months. Around 1.6 million Persian-asymmetric knots were tied by feel against a vertical beam, the wool drawn from a long-staple New Zealand fleece chosen because it lifts plant dye to the soft tones the rustic palette requires. Madder root, fermented indigo, oak gall, and walnut hull provided the entire colour vocabulary, with each bath matured in copper vats for two to three weeks before the skein was lowered.

The composition

A faded madder ground carries an all-over vine in cream and soft indigo, with the pattern thickening toward an implied centre. The drawing is loose and confident rather than tight and precise, which is the village dialect at its best. A single deep guard band closes the border without crowding the field. The colour will keep moving for a decade. The madder lightens into terracotta, the cream warms into bone, and the indigo deepens slowly toward navy in the deeper passes.

What you are buying

Rustic Sultanabad carpets with this scale and dye discipline trade at international auction between twenty and forty-five thousand dollars when honest examples appear. This is a new weaving in the same village tradition, in the same fibre, on the same loom geometry at the same density. The rug appreciates with use rather than depreciating, a property no other floor object carries.

The piece in a room

8' x 10' (244 x 305 cm) sits naturally beneath the front edge of a sectional or under a six-to-eight seater dining table. The faded madder palette pairs with walnut, oak, oxidised brass, and leather, and welcomes mid-tone painted walls. The looser village drawing reads beautifully in a room with imperfect plaster and exposed beams as well as in a more polished setting.

Conservation

Rotate a half turn every six months so light and traffic age the wool evenly. Vacuum weekly with suction alone, beater bar disengaged. Blot any spill at once with a clean cotton cloth and cool water. A wool-trained conservator should hand-wash the rug every five years. The piece runs ninety years on a domestic floor with that care.

Reference

• Medium: hand-knotted New Zealand wool on cotton foundation
• Dimensions: 244 x 305 cm (8' x 10')
• Construction: Persian asymmetric knot
• Hands: 3 weavers, ~6 months
• Pile: 10 mm wool
• Dye: vegetable (madder, indigo, oak gall, walnut hull)
• Origin: India

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