Rugsville Antiquity Green Ivory Wool Carpet 6' x 9'

Antiquity as a design vocabulary leans on faded vegetable colour, soft drawings, and an open field that suggests a rug already aged on the day it leaves the loom. The look comes out of nineteenth-century village weaving and was reinterpreted by twentieth-century dealers for collectors who wanted that quiet quality without waiting for forty years of light to produce it. The Antiquity Green Ivory carpet in front of you continues that line.

Two to three weavers in India spent close to four months at the loom. The cartoon was an open antiquity-style floral, drawn loosely so the wool would show through the design, and the dye lot was kept narrow with low-saturation natural and natural-style chemistry. The pile was clipped low after weaving so the rug carries the worn-down quality of an older field rather than the deep plush of a new one.

The composition

An ivory ground carries soft green vine work and dropped olive accents, with the border picked out in close values rather than in contrast. The whole rug reads as if light has already worked on it for several decades, which is the antiquity brief. As the wool ages, the ivory will warm toward bone and the green will settle a shade darker, deepening the hand of the surface.

What you are buying

Genuine antique carpets in this register and condition surface at Christie's, Skinner, and Bonhams in the range of fifteen to thirty thousand US dollars when they appear. This is a contemporary weaving on the same loom, in the same fibre, finished to the same low pile and soft palette. The rug appreciates with use rather than depreciating, which is the durable basis of value in any serious hand-finished floor.

The piece in a room

6' x 9' (183 x 274 cm) holds a primary seating area or a six-seat dining set. The soft green and ivory palette pairs with limewashed cream walls, putty plaster, oak and walnut floors, brass and oxidised steel, and undyed linen upholstery. The rug works as a quiet ground rather than as a focal object.

Conservation

Vacuum weekly with suction only. Rotate end-to-end at the change of seasons. Blot spills with absorbent cotton, never rub. A wool conservator should wash the rug every five to seven years. The piece expects an eighty-year service life on this regimen.

Reference

• Medium: hand-knotted wool on cotton foundation
• Dimensions: 183 x 274 cm (6' x 9')
• Construction: Persian asymmetric knot
• Hands: 2-3 weavers, around 4 months
• Pile: 7 mm
• Origin: India

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