Newparta NPA-10 Wool Handmade Carpet

A hand-tufted rug carries the weight and warmth of a knotted piece without the price floor that knot density imposes. The trade is in longevity and in design freedom; the gain is in colour saturation and the pile depth that tufting allows. Where a knotted rug is bound by the geometry of the warp grid, a tufted piece is drawn freehand on the canvas back and reads more like a painting than a textile.

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

The geometry is restrained. A single motif repeats across the field at a measured interval, and the polychrome ground carries the rhythm without competing with it. The pile was carved in a second pass, which gives the surface a tactile quality that flat-cut tufting does not have.

The piece in a room

A medium living room with a three-seat sofa and a pair of chairs accepts the piece comfortably. The polychrome ground handles both linen upholstery and leather. A polychrome field anchors a room with otherwise restrained palette. Best with one strong piece of wall art and otherwise restrained surfaces; the rug carries enough visual weight that the room does not need a second graphic event.

Care

Vacuum weekly with the beater bar disengaged; suction alone is enough to lift household soil from the pile. Blot spills with a clean cotton cloth, never rub. Light shedding is normal for the first six weeks as loose fibres clear from the pile, and the body of the rug is unaffected by the process. A professional dry clean every three years preserves the polychrome saturation and lifts ground-in soil that domestic vacuuming cannot reach.

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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