Rugsville Classic Floral Vegetable dyes Wool Carpet 8' x 10'

Classical floral drawing in the Persian tradition is governed by a single rule: every element on the field must answer to the medallion at the centre, even when the medallion is dissolved into the pattern rather than drawn as a hard form. The floral repeat carried in this rug obeys that rule. The composition is built on madder, faded indigo, and an undyed cream ground, the working palette of village weavers for four hundred years before synthetic dye displaced it in the late nineteenth century.

Three weavers shared the loom in India for roughly six months. Around 1.7 million Persian-asymmetric knots were tied row by row against a vertical beam. The wool was drawn from a long-staple fleece washed and combed before spinning, and each dye bath was prepared from plant matter and matured in copper vats for two to three weeks before the skein was lowered. The cream ground is undyed wool washed once and laid down without modification.

The composition

A cream field carries an all-over floral repeat in soft madder and faded indigo, with the pattern thickening at the centre toward an implied medallion rather than resolving into a hard one. A single deep indigo guard band closes the border without crowding the field. The colour will keep moving for a decade. The cream warms into bone, the madder lightens into terracotta, and the indigo deepens slowly toward navy. The rug is built to age rather than to hold a single moment.

What you are buying

Period vegetable-dyed floral carpets in this scale and density trade at international auction between twenty and forty-five thousand dollars when honest examples appear. This is a new weaving in the same tradition, on the same loom geometry, in the same fibre and dye process. The rug appreciates with use rather than depreciating, which is true of no other object you set on a floor.

The piece in a room

8' x 10' (244 x 305 cm) sits naturally beneath the front edge of a sectional or under a six-to-eight seater dining table. The cream and madder palette works with walnut, oak, oxidised brass, and unbleached linen, and welcomes mid-tone painted walls rather than stark white. The floral drawing reveals its scale on approach and reads as a quiet ground at a distance.

Conservation

Rotate a half turn each spring and autumn so light and traffic age the wool evenly. Vacuum weekly with suction only, beater bar off. Blot any spill at once with a clean cotton cloth and cool water. A wool-trained conservator should hand-wash the rug every five years. The piece runs ninety years on a domestic floor with that care.

Reference

• Medium: hand-knotted wool on cotton foundation
• Dimensions: 244 x 305 cm (8' x 10')
• Construction: Persian asymmetric knot
• Hands: 3 weavers, ~6 months
• Pile: 10 mm wool
• Dye: vegetable (madder, indigo, walnut hull)
• Origin: India

Free shipping across India. Cash on delivery available. 7-day exchange. The rug arrives crated for safe storage and relocation.