A round carpet is a different problem from a rectangular one. The pattern has to resolve in every direction at once, with no long axis to organise the field and no border that can carry the eye home. The Persian workshops solved it by working from a true centre outward, letting the medallion do the work that a long composition would do over distance, and that is the logic that governs the antique-style design in front of you.

One senior weaver tied the entire piece on a custom round loom over roughly four and a half months. Working alone is the older protocol for round carpets because the radial tension a single hand maintains is more even than tension shared between weavers. The dyes were prepared from madder, indigo, vine ash, and pomegranate skin, each lot matured for two weeks before the wool was lowered. After cutting, the rug was sun-dried over twelve days so the fibres locked at their final tension.

The composition

A central medallion in soft rose and ochre, with a quiet vine carrying outward to a single guard band. The palette reads as if it has already lived a generation, with the highlights toned down and the field carrying a gentle, walked-in patina from the wash. There is no jarring contrast in the piece. Everything sits in the same range so the eye registers the medallion first and the lattice afterward.

What you are buying

Antique Persian rounds of this size and condition appear at auction perhaps twice a year and clear in the range of two and a half to five lakh equivalent. This is a new weaving in the same tradition, on a vertical round loom, in hand-spun vegetable-dyed wool. At seventy-three thousand against a list of nearly two lakh seventy thousand, the rug appreciates with use rather than depreciating.

The piece in a room

6' (183 cm) round suits an entry rotunda, the centre of a square library, or beneath a circular dining table for four. The medallion locates the table without having to be seen under it, which is the function the design was developed to perform. The piece sits well against terracotta, lime-washed plaster, and stone floors.

Conservation

Rotate a quarter turn each season so the wear pattern cycles evenly around the field. Vacuum weekly with suction only, beater bar off. Address spills immediately with a clean cotton cloth and cool water, blotting from the edge inward. Hand-wash by a conservator every five years. Stored rolled, never folded, with the pile facing inward.

Reference

• Medium: hand-knotted wool on cotton foundation
• Dimensions: 183 cm (6' round)
• Construction: Persian asymmetric knot
• Hands: 1 senior weaver, ~4.5 months
• Pile: 8 mm hand-spun wool
• Dye: vegetable (madder, indigo, vine ash, pomegranate)
• Origin: India

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