Rugsville Antique Heriz Rust Blue Wool Hand Knotted Carpet 10' x 14'

Antique Heriz weavings are valued for a particular kind of restraint. The medallion is large but never crowds the field, the corner pieces echo it without competing, and the border carries a single repeating motif rather than the layered guards of a city carpet. This piece is woven in the antique Heriz idiom, with the proportions and the muted colour register that distinguishes nineteenth-century village work from the brighter twentieth-century revivals. The intent is not to imitate age but to weave inside the same discipline.

Three to four weavers shared the loom for around seven months on this 10' x 14' (305 x 427 cm) carpet. Wool was hand-spun and dyed in small batches before being tied knot by knot against a cotton warp. After the rug came off the loom it was washed and lightly sheared to bring the geometry forward and to soften the surface so the colour reads as settled rather than new.

The composition

A rust ground carrying a stepped indigo medallion, with ivory spandrels and a narrow border in deep blue. The rust is not a single value; it shifts gently from a brick tone in some passes to a softer terracotta in others, the natural consequence of vegetable-dyed wool. The indigo deepens at the medallion centre and lightens at its edges, where the dye took differently to the wool. The piece is engineered to look like it has lived in a room for two decades from the day it arrives.

What you are buying

Period antique Heriz carpets in this dimension, with intact pile and original sides, sell at Sotheby's, Christie's, and Rippon Boswell between $30,000 and $65,000 when they appear, which is rarely. The weaving in front of you sits in the same lineage, on the same loom type, in the same fibre, at a fraction of the auction comparable. A hand-knotted wool carpet of this density appreciates with use rather than depreciating. There is no other floor object with that property.

The piece in a room

10' x 14' is the canonical drawing-room scale. The rust and blue palette holds in rooms with cool plaster walls, dark joinery, and natural daylight. Pair with leather chairs, an oak or walnut dining table, brass lighting, and linen upholstery. The rug expects to be the organising element, not a layered accent.

Conservation

Rotate one half turn each spring and autumn. Vacuum weekly with the beater bar off. Blot spills with a clean cotton cloth, never rub. Address oil and wine within the hour. A wool-trained conservator should hand-wash the rug every six years. With this care the piece outlives its first owner.

Reference

• Medium: hand-knotted wool on cotton foundation
• Dimensions: 305 x 427 cm (10' x 14')
• Construction: Persian asymmetric knot
• Hands: 3-4 weavers, ~7 months
• Pile: hand-spun wool, low
• Dye: vegetable
• Origin: India

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