Rugsville Charity Geometric Brown Persian Carpet 5'3" x 7'9"

The classical Persian medallion is one of the oldest organising structures on a carpet. A central rosette, ground field, corner spandrels, multi-band border. The graph in this rug was redrawn from a seventeenth-century reference and adapted to current production. The brown palette is true to the historical vocabulary.

The composition reads at architectural scale rather than at the head-down, fingertip scale of a hand-tied carpet. The result is a rug that carries the visual signature of a Persian medallion design without the maintenance regime of one.

The studio worked the cartoon in chalk and ink at half scale before approving it for the loom. The proportions were tested against a sample run and corrected three times before commitment to production. The discipline behind a loom-finished rug sits in the front-end design work rather than in the weaving itself.

This is the Charity variant of the studio's seasonal release, sized to the working scale this format addresses.

The fibre

Heat-set polypropylene. The yarn is engineered so the colour is locked in by temperature rather than by surface dye, which is why the saturation does not fade under direct sunlight the way pigment printing fades. The fibre resists staining at the molecular level: spilled drinks, oil, and coffee lift with a damp cloth before they set. The pile stays flat under furniture and does not shed.

The composition

The field reads as brown from across the room and resolves into multiple lots of the same family on approach. The lots were prepared in matured baths over several weeks. The dye sat in the wool long enough to settle into the fibre rather than the surface, which is why the colour matures over time rather than fading. The borders are kept narrow so the eye is not pulled to the edges; the design holds in the field where it belongs. Under raking light the pattern lifts a fraction above the ground; under flat overhead light it settles into a single plane. Both readings are intended.

The piece in a room

5' × 8' (152 × 244 cm) is the canonical scale for a small living area, a primary bedroom, or under a four-seat dining table. The brown composition holds the room without claiming it. Mid-tone walls let the field settle; bright walls push it forward.

Care

Weekly vacuum, spot clean as needed with a damp cloth and mild detergent. The pile recovers from compression with light brushing. The colour is heat locked at the fibre level and does not fade under interior light or under the periodic exposure to sunlight that an inland Indian climate brings.

Reference

• Medium: heat-set polypropylene, jacquard-woven
• Dimensions: 152 × 244 cm (5' × 8')
• Pile: 10-12 mm
• Origin: Turkey

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