Rugsville Fine Tribal Kazak Ivory Wool Carpet 8'10" x 11'9"

An ivory-ground Kazak is the rarer cousin of the more familiar red Kazak, and the white field changes the entire reading of the design. Where a red ground absorbs the medallions and pulls them tight against itself, ivory pushes them forward and lets every angle of the drawing breathe. The motifs are the same Caucasian vocabulary of stepped medallions and archaic hooks, but the field colour repositions them as graphic objects rather than as a unified tribal pattern.

Four weavers shared the loom for roughly seven months to bring this 9' x 12' (274 x 366 cm) carpet off the beam. The wool is hand-spun highland fleece, with the irregularity in the yarn that the symmetric Turkish knot rewards and the smooth mill yarn does not. The ivory is undyed wool, washed in cold river water and aired before knotting so the natural creamy note carries through. Coloured passages were dyed in small copper batches from indigo, madder root, and walnut hull. The carpet is knotted in India by hands working the same Caucasian grammar that village looms have carried for two centuries.

The composition

An ivory ground carries linked geometric medallions in indigo, terracotta, and walnut brown, with a layered border that frames the field rather than crowding it. The contrast is high but not harsh; the undyed wool reads warmer than a bleached white and softens the geometry. As the carpet ages, the ivory will warm further into bone and the indigo will deepen, which is the colour shift collectors of vegetable-dyed work look for.

What you are buying

Antique ivory-ground Caucasian carpets of equivalent scale and drawing trade at international auction at $8,000 to $18,000 when they appear, and they appear rarely because the white field is harder to maintain over a century of use. This is a new weaving in the same Kazak idiom, on the same loom type, in the same hand-spun wool. The piece appreciates with use as the colour matures, and the structure is built for generational ownership.

The piece in a room

9' x 12' (274 x 366 cm) sits well under a full sofa configuration or a six-seat dining table. The ivory ground brightens a north-facing room and lifts darker walls, joinery, and upholstery; it suits walnut, oxblood leather, charcoal linen, and unlacquered brass. The geometry pairs well with both classical and mid-century furniture and is unusually forgiving of mixed pieces in one room.

Conservation

Rotate a half turn each spring and autumn. Vacuum weekly on suction, beater bar off. Address spills immediately with a clean dry cotton cloth, blotting rather than rubbing; the ivory ground is what makes early intervention worth doing. Hand-wash by a trained wool conservator every five years. Stored carefully, an ivory Kazak of this build runs eighty to a hundred years.

Reference

• Medium: hand-knotted wool on cotton foundation
• Dimensions: 274 x 366 cm (9' x 12')
• Construction: symmetric Turkish knot
• Hands: 4 weavers, ~7 months
• Pile: hand-spun highland wool, 10 mm
• Dye: vegetable, undyed ivory ground
• Origin: India

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