Rugsville Floral Persian Black Wool&Slilk Carpet 9' x 12'

The Persian floral cartoon is the oldest design vocabulary in carpet making, and it earned its place by allowing the weaver to use every tool in the studio. Curving vines, palmettes, lotus rosettes, and arabesques that fold into and out of one another. A black ground is the rarest version because it asks the most of the cartoon. The drawing has nowhere to hide. Every line has to register against deep black, and the hand of the weaver is visible in every curve. This piece carries the floral language forward into a contemporary domestic scale.

Three weavers worked the loom for six months. The pile is wool blended with mulberry silk, the silk reserved for the lotus crowns and the inner vine where it lifts the line off the black ground and gives the floral the depth that makes a Persian carpet read as drawing rather than as ornament. Knots are Persian asymmetric, tied row by row against the beam at a density that supports the fineness of the cartoon.

The composition

A deep black ground. Curving vine in pomegranate, faded ochre, soft sage, and ivory, with the silk highlights concentrated on the lotus heads and the palmette crowns. The border is restrained, a single guard band of palmette and rosette in the same vocabulary so the eye reads the field as a continuous garden rather than a framed pattern. The black will warm slightly over the years as the wool relaxes and the silk burnishes.

What you are buying

Contemporary hand-knotted Persian floral carpets at 9' x 12' (274 x 366 cm) in wool and silk on a black ground sit at $9,000 to $18,000 in the New York and London trade. This is a workshop weaving to the same construction, the same fibre choice, and the same drawing standard, sold direct. The rug appreciates with use as the silk passes from raw lustre into its mature burnish, which takes about a decade.

The piece in a room

9' x 12' (274 x 366 cm) is the canonical living room and dining scale. The black ground anchors a bright space without darkening it, the way a black piano grounds a music room without absorbing the light. Mid-tone walls in clay, plaster, or warm grey hold the saturation. Pairs well with brass, walnut, leather in oxblood or cognac, and any single strong work of figurative art.

Conservation

Rotate the carpet a half turn each spring and autumn. Suction-only vacuuming weekly, beater bar disengaged. Blot spills with clean cotton, never rub the silk passages. Specialist hand wash every five to seven years preserves the silk lustre and the integrity of the wool. The piece serves seventy to a hundred years on that routine.

Reference

• Medium: hand-knotted wool with mulberry silk highlights, cotton foundation
• Dimensions: 274 x 366 cm (9' x 12')
• Construction: Persian asymmetric knot
• Hands: 3 weavers, 6 months
• Pile: 10 mm
• Origin: India

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