Rugsville Antique Persian Vegetable dyes Wool Carpet 9' x 12'

About 2.7 million hand-tied knots. Roughly six months of work. Three to four weavers leaning into a vertical beam in turn, tying knots by feel without a paper cartoon to read from. That is the labour anchor for an antique-Persian-style 9 x 12 in this register. The price you pay buys the labour, the long-staple wool, the plant dye, and the slow finish that is the only way a carpet of this character is built.

The pile is hand-spun New Zealand wool laid on cotton warp and tied in Persian asymmetric knots. Madder root, indigo, walnut hull, oak gall, and pomegranate rind were the dye plants, each matured in copper vessels for two to three weeks before the wool was lowered. After the rug came off the loom it was clipped, sun-dried for four days, and given a long mineral wash that pulled the saturation back into the soft tonal register of late-nineteenth-century Persian floral work.

The composition

A continuous floral field in cream, faded madder, soft pomegranate, and a deep indigo outline. The composition has no central anchor. The eye moves freely across the rug and finds incident at every scale. The border is a triple band held in tonal proximity to the field so it frames without competing. Faint horizontal abrash bands run through the field as the trace of small-batch dye lots, the fingerprint of plant-dye work that no synthetic finish reproduces.

What you are buying

Antique Persian carpets at this scale, palette, and condition carry estimates of thirty-five to seventy-five thousand US dollars at the major rug auctions when they appear. This is a new weaving in the same lineage, on the same loom, in the same fibre, to the same density. At one and a half lac it appreciates with use rather than depreciating.

The piece in a room

9' x 12' (274 x 366 cm) holds a ten-seat dining table or a deep sectional with the front legs of the seating landing on the wool. The soft palette welcomes chalk plaster, washed oak, brushed brass, and a single large work above the sofa. The rug calibrates to the architecture rather than dictating to it.

Conservation

Rotate the rug a half turn each spring and autumn so light and traffic age the field evenly. Vacuum weekly, beater bar off. Blot spills at once with clean cotton, never rub. Hand-wash by a trained wool conservator every six years. With this care the piece runs ninety years.

Reference

• Medium: hand-knotted New Zealand wool on cotton foundation
• Dimensions: 274 x 366 cm (9' x 12')
• Construction: Persian asymmetric knot
• Hands: 3-4 weavers, ~6 months
• Pile: hand-spun wool
• Dye: vegetable (madder, indigo, walnut, oak gall, pomegranate)
• Origin: India

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