Rugsville Etched Leaf Brown Modern Wool Carpet 9' x 12'

The drawing here grew out of the conversation contemporary studios in India have been holding with mid-century European abstraction for the last two decades. The carpet is read as a composition, not as a pattern. Field, mark, edge, ground.

The piece was hand-tufted in India by a team of 3 tufters and one finisher over 7 weeks. New Zealand wool was pushed through a stretched cotton canvas one row at a time with a tufting tool, then sealed at the back with natural latex and a cotton scrim that lets the rug lie flat without slipping. The last pass was carving by hand with long shears to relieve the pattern above the field by one or two millimetres. That carving is the difference between a tufted rug that reads as a piece of design and one that reads as a flat surface with paint on it. The piece reads at 9' x 12' (274 x 366 cm) in brown, finished in India.

The composition

Asymmetric blocks of brown cross the field with the densities tightening at the centre and opening toward the edges, so the rug reads as a single considered composition rather than as a repeating motif. The colour is layered in two passes of dye rather than one, which gives the field the slight depth that single-bath colour never carries.

The piece in a room

9' x 12' (274 x 366 cm) is the canonical drawing-room scale. The rug expects a full sectional or a ten-seat dining table set above it, not as flooring under the furniture but as the work the room is arranged around. Mid-tone walls hold the brown saturation longer than white walls do. Direct sunlight for an hour or two a day helps the wool keep its dye depth rather than washing it out, the way it does with painted surfaces.

Care

Vacuum on suction only for the first month, then with the beater bar off thereafter. Light shedding settles in four to six weeks. Spot-clean spills with cold water and mild detergent, blotting outward from the centre. Professional dry-cleaning every two to three years keeps the pile bright.

Reference

• Medium: hand-tufted highland wool, latex bonded, cotton scrim
• Dimensions: 274 x 366 cm (9' x 12')
• Pile: 12 mm
• Hands: 4 tufters and 1 finisher, ~7 weeks
• Origin: India

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