Piera Traditional Floral Blue Wool Handmade Persian Carpet 63504

The floral repeat, refined over four centuries in the Persian and Mughal court workshops, holds together by rhythm rather than incident. The eye reads it as a single field. This piece is hand-knotted in wool in India.

A small team shared the loom for several months. The pile is hand-spun wool, knotted by feel against a vertical beam on a cotton foundation. The dye palette was prepared in small batches before the wool was lowered into the vats, the way every long-lived carpet has been finished for two hundred years. The cartoon was followed loosely; small hand-driven irregularities in the field are the signature of a piece woven without a power-driven aid.

The composition

Blue carries the field, with a floral repeat layered over it in tones a few shades darker. The eye moves across the rug rather than landing in one place. There is no single focal incident, which is what lets the piece sit comfortably under the rest of the furniture in a working room.

What you are buying

The price is held by the workshop pricing this piece as new production rather than as a collector lot. The construction, the wool, the knot density, and the drawing are all auction grade. The piece appreciates with use; ten years in, it reads like a softened antique rather than a new rug.

The piece in a room

In the size as listed the rug anchors a medium living area, primary bedroom, or formal sitting room. The blue palette holds against ivory, lime-washed white, or a deep terracotta accent wall, and the piece pairs cleanly with walnut, oak, linen upholstery, leather without competing for the room.

Conservation

A hand-knotted carpet wants slow, careful maintenance. Rotate twice a year, vacuum without a beater bar, keep the underside dry, and have a wool conservator wash the rug every five to seven years. The pile compacts into the foundation with use; this is preservation, not wear.

Reference

• Medium: hand-knotted wool on cotton foundation
• Dimensions: size as listed
• Construction: Persian asymmetric knot
• Hands: a small team, several months
• Pile: hand-spun wool, sheared close
• Dye: colour-fast wool
• Origin: India

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