A floral field rug is built on quiet repetition. The motif is small and the field carries it across the entire ground without break, which is what gives the rug its meditative quality. Persian and Mughal court weavings used the device to suggest the paradisical garden; the modern transitional uses it for visual calm.

Two weavers at the tufting frame for five to six weeks, and a finisher behind them. The wool was hand-spun and dyed in small batches before it ever reached the canvas. Tufting builds the rug face down on a stretched frame; the back is sealed in latex with a cotton scrim, and the surface is sheared by hand at the end to bring the pile down to a uniform plane. The composition is then washed to settle the dye and lift the wool's natural sheen.

The composition

Built on beige and green. The field is held open enough that the eye moves across it rather than landing in any single place. The slight irregularities in dye saturation are not flaws; they are the signature of wool batched in small lots and dyed in copper vats by hand. Photographic accuracy was never the goal. The colour the rug carries in person is warmer, softer, and longer-lived than any image of it can suggest. The geometry is sized for the room rather than for the photograph; the rug rewards a close look as much as a standing one.

The piece in a room

At 4' x 6' the rug works as a small considered statement on the floor, beside a bed, beneath an entry console, or in front of a low cabinet. The piece is read at close range and the geometry rewards the proximity. Pairs naturally with brass and walnut, with stone, with dark concrete; sits comfortably on engineered timber and on lime-finished plaster floors alike.

Care

Vacuum weekly with no rotary brush; the beater action will pull tufts loose from the latex bond and the piece will lose body before its time. Blot spills with a clean dry cloth followed by a slightly damp one. Initial shedding for the first month or two is normal. Professional dry-cleaning at two-year intervals preserves the surface.

Reference

• Medium: hand-tufted wool, latex bonded with cotton scrim
• Dimensions: 4' x 6' (122 x 183 cm)
• Construction: hand-tufted through stretched canvas, sheared finish
• Hands: 2 tufters and a finisher, five to six weeks
• Pile: 12 mm, hand-spun wool
• Origin: India

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