Rugsville Agra Red Ivory Wool Carpet 9' x 12'

The Agra workshops of Mughal India developed the floral medallion carpet as a sovereign idiom in the seventeenth century, weaving rugs for palace floors that combined Persian drawing with the softer Indian colour sense. The classical Agra is built around a single deep-red ground, an ivory medallion, and dense floral work that pulls the eye inward without ever crowding the field. The pattern in front of you descends directly from that workshop tradition.

Three weavers shared the loom for roughly five and a half months. Hand-spun wool was tied in the Persian asymmetric knot against a cotton foundation, building toward a knot count of around 2.6 million across the field. The dyes were prepared from madder root for the red, oak gall for the ivory wash, and walnut hull for the soft browns of the floral work. Each dye lot was matured in copper vats for two to three weeks before the wool was lowered.

The composition

A pendant-medallion in carved ivory floats over a saturated red ground crowded with palmette, leaf, and curling vine. The corners carry quarter-medallions that complete the geometry when the eye walks the rug. The border runs three layers deep in walnut, cream, and indigo, the way the original Mughal court rugs framed their fields. Over a decade the red will warm into garnet and the ivory will soften into bone.

What you are buying

Antique Indo-Persian Agras with 1880-1920 attribution and intact ground sell at Christie's, Bonhams, and Skinner in the range of $15,000 to $40,000 when condition is auction-grade. This is a new weaving in the same lineage, on the same loom, to the same density, in the same fibre. The rug appreciates with use rather than depreciating, which is the entire reason this category survived four centuries of replacement by cheaper alternatives.

The piece in a room

9' x 12' (274 x 366 cm) is the canonical drawing-room scale for an Agra. The rug expects to be the visual centre of a formal seating group, an eight-to-ten-seat dining table, or a primary library. Place it on dark walnut or oak floors, against ivory walls, with brass and lacquered wood furniture above. The red ground will absorb evening lamp light and return it as a warm depth across the room.

Conservation

Rotate a half turn each spring and autumn so wear and light age the rug evenly. Vacuum weekly with suction only. Blot spills with cool water and a clean cotton cloth, working inward from the spill edge. Plan a hand wash by a wool-trained conservator at year five and again at year ten. With this discipline the rug runs ninety years and beyond.

Reference

• Medium: hand-knotted wool on cotton foundation
• Dimensions: 274 x 366 cm (9' x 12')
• Construction: Persian asymmetric knot
• Total knot count: ~2.6 million
• Hands: 3 weavers, ~5.5 months
• Pile: 10 mm hand-spun wool
• Dye: vegetable (madder, oak gall, walnut)
• Origin: India

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