Newparta NPA-20 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.

Indian workshops produced the rug over 4 weeks. A team of two pushed wool yarn through the canvas one motif at a time, working from a chalk-marked back, while a third hand finished the binding and trimmed the pile to depth. The latex coat was applied in a single pour, allowed to cure for forty-eight hours, and laminated to a cotton backing that gives the rug its hand and weight.

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

Bedroom or sitting room scale. The polychrome field pairs with oak floors and warm walls, with brass and matte black hardware both. A polychrome field anchors a room with otherwise restrained palette. Underfoot it has the warmth and density of a deeper-pile rug; visually it has the geometry of a contemporary studio piece.

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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