Rugsville Antique Heriz Rust Blue Wool Carpet 8' x 10'

By the late nineteenth century the village workshops of north-western Persia were producing the Heriz carpets that filled European drawing rooms for two generations. The antique-style drawing carried in this rug, with its rust ground and floating blue medallion, is a direct descendant of those early village pieces. The colour pairing of oxidised madder and fermented indigo is one of the oldest in Persian weaving, and it survives because the two pigments age in opposite directions and lock the composition in balance.

The loom was shared in India by three weavers over roughly five months. Around 1.6 million symmetric knots were tied by feel, the wool drawn from highland fleece washed and combed to a long staple before spinning. The dye process used madder root for the rust, fermented indigo for the blue, walnut hull for the brown, and weak iron mordant to set the palette without darkening the wool.

The composition

A rust field anchors a soft blue medallion at the centre, with corner spandrels that echo the medallion in faded ivory. The vine drawing is angular rather than curvilinear, the village dialect rather than the court script. The rust will mellow over a decade into terracotta, the blue will deepen, and the ivory will warm. The rug is built to age rather than to hold a single moment, and it gathers character with each year on the floor.

What you are buying

Genuine antique Heriz carpets with rust grounds and comparable scale trade at international auction between twenty-five and sixty thousand dollars when condition is honest. This is a new weaving in the same village tradition, on the same loom geometry, in the same fibre at the same density. The rug appreciates with use rather than depreciating, a property no other floor object holds.

The piece in a room

8' x 10' (244 x 305 cm) is the working scale of a primary living area, set beneath the front edge of a sofa run with the rust ground reading as a warm anchor for walnut, leather, and oxidised brass. The blue medallion gathers the eye from across a room without dominating the wall art above it.

Conservation

Rotate a half turn every six months. Vacuum weekly with suction only, beater bar off. Blot any spill at once with a clean cotton cloth and water, never rub or use detergent. A wool-trained conservator should hand-wash the rug every five years. Under that regime the piece runs ninety to a hundred and ten years.

Reference

• Medium: hand-knotted wool on cotton foundation
• Dimensions: 244 x 305 cm (8' x 10')
• Construction: symmetric Turkish knot
• Hands: 3 weavers, ~5 months
• Pile: 9 mm highland wool
• Dye: vegetable (madder, indigo, walnut)
• Origin: India

Free shipping anywhere in India. Cash on delivery available. 7-day exchange. The piece arrives crated for storage and relocation.