Rugsville Floral Persian Tan & Ivory Wool&Slilk Carpet 9' x 12'

A floral cartoon on a tan and ivory ground asks the eye to read the drawing as garden and the ground as light. The Persian tradition of the open-field floral grew out of the seventeenth-century court workshops at Isfahan and Kerman, where the weavers were instructed to leave the cartoon legible rather than packed, so the design language could be appreciated as drawing rather than as accumulated incident. This piece carries that open-field discipline into a modern domestic scale, with the warm ground throwing every curve of vine and lotus forward.

Three weavers shared the loom for six months. The pile blends New Zealand wool with mulberry silk, the silk used to lift the floral motifs above the matte wool ground so the drawing catches light from above and reads cleanly even at evening light levels. Tan and ivory wool was kettle-dyed in close registration so the ground reads as one tonally modulated field rather than two separate colour blocks. Knots are Persian asymmetric tied by feel against the loom beam.

The composition

A warm tan field that lightens through the centre toward bone ivory, with curving vine work in soft rust, indigo, faded ochre, and silver. The silk catches on the lotus crowns and the palmette tops and shifts as you cross the room. The border carries the same vine vocabulary in a single guard band so the field reads as a continuous garden seen through one window rather than as a framed picture. Tan grounds settle into themselves over the first decade as the wool oxidises and warms.

What you are buying

A 9' x 12' (274 x 366 cm) Persian-tradition floral in wool and silk with a workshop-level cartoon and three weaver-months of labour reaches $10,000 to $20,000 in the New York and Mayfair trade by the time gallery margin is added. The piece you are looking at is the same construction, the same fibre, and the same cartoon discipline, priced at the workshop margin direct from India. A wool and silk floral appreciates with use as the silk burnishes through the first decade.

The piece in a room

9' x 12' (274 x 366 cm) is the dining and primary lounge scale. The tan and ivory palette pairs well with chalk, oat, or warm white walls, and with rooms that already carry pale linen or natural-fibre upholstery. The rug holds light beautifully under a tall window. Pairs with oak, walnut, brass, and any single antique piece used as a focal element.

Conservation

Half-turn the carpet twice a year so light and traffic age the field evenly. Vacuum weekly with the beater bar off, suction only. Blot any spill with a clean cotton cloth, no rubbing, particularly on the silk highlights. Specialist wool hand wash every five to seven years preserves the silk and removes the embedded dust that breaks down wool fibre. With that care the rug runs seventy to a hundred years.

Reference

• Medium: hand-knotted New Zealand 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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