Rugsville Chevron Ivory Blue Wool Carpet 8' x 10'

The chevron is the oldest motif in textile. It appears on Greek geometric pottery in 800 BC, on Berber weavings older than that, and inside Bauhaus colour studies in the 1920s. What survives across three thousand years is the way a simple zigzag organises the eye without claiming the eye's attention.

The pile is hand-knotted wool on a cotton foundation. 3 weavers shared the loom across 4-6 months, working at roughly 100 knots per square inch. That gives a finished count of around 1.2 million hand-tied knots. The dyes were prepared in small batches and the wool was lowered into them before being washed in clean water and sun-dried over several days. Every step is done by hand because the result depends on it.

The composition

The zigzag carries across the field at a uniform pitch. The colour blocks alternate in a rhythm that reads as music rather than as graphic. The whole arrangement is meant to recede the way a wallpaper recedes inside a well-composed room. The dominant tones run to ivory, blue.

What you are buying

This is an honest entry into hand-knotted collecting. Wool, cotton foundation, hand-tied knots, finished by hand. The price reflects the smaller scale of the piece rather than any compromise in the weaving. Used and conserved, it holds and grows in value the way every hand-tied carpet does.

The piece in a room

8' x 10' (244 x 305 cm) anchors a generous sitting area or a dining room under an eight-seater table. The field carries weight at room scale without losing its detail. Holds against both cool whites and the warmer browns of older interiors.

Conservation

Rotate end to end every six months so light and traffic age the surface evenly. Vacuum weekly with the beater bar disengaged, suction only. Blot any spill with a clean cotton cloth, working from the outside in, and never rub the pile. A hand wash by a wool-trained conservator every five years keeps the dye bright and the foundation flexible. With this routine the rug runs three generations.

Reference

• Medium: hand-knotted wool on cotton foundation
• Dimensions: 8' x 10' (244 x 305 cm)
• Construction: hand-tied asymmetric knot
• Knot density: ~100 KPSI
• Total knot count: ~1.2 million
• Hands: 3 weavers, 4-6 months
• Pile: 10 mm, hand-spun wool
• Dye: vegetable and low-impact mineral
• Origin: India

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