Rugsville Gabbeh Modern Brown Wool Carpet 2' x 3'

Persian asymmetric knotting is slower than the Turkish symmetric knot but allows finer detail at the same density. The weaver wraps yarn around a single warp and slips it under the next, leaving a single strand of pile. The technique is the reason classical Persian florals can carry the level of detail they do.

2 weavers shared the loom for approximately 4 months, tying thousands of Persian-asymmetric knots at approximately 120 knots per square inch against a vertical beam. The pile is New Zealand wool, hand-spun and prepared in small dye lots so that the colour carries the slight irregularity that gives a hand-knotted ground its life.

The composition

The field reads as brown brought up against a quieter ground. The Gabbeh drawing carries the irregular grace that only hand-spun yarn produces, with motifs settling at slightly different weights from row to row. The border is restrained where it could be busy, a single guard band rather than the layered frames that turn lesser carpets crowded. Over the next decade the saturated tones will mellow into a softer register and the lighter passages will warm. A vegetable-dyed carpet does not arrive complete. It arrives ready to begin.

What you are buying

At ₹7,999 the rug is an entry point to collecting hand-finished wool work. The fibre, the knot count, and the loom discipline match pieces sold at multiples of this price by Western dealers. Hand-knotted carpets do not depreciate. The pile compresses into a soft sheen, the dye deepens, and the rug is worth more in twenty years than it is today.

The piece in a room

At the size as listed, the rug holds its place as the focal element of a considered room. Pair with quiet upholstery and warm wood so the brown field reads as the work the rest of the composition is arranged around.

Conservation

Rotate a half turn each spring and autumn so light and traffic age the fibre evenly. Vacuum weekly with suction only and the beater bar disengaged. Blot spills with clean cotton, never rub. A trained wool conservator should hand-wash the rug every five to seven years. With this care the carpet runs eighty years and outlives its first owner.

Reference

• Medium: hand-knotted New Zealand wool on cotton foundation
• Dimensions: size as listed
• Construction: Persian asymmetric knot
• Knot density: ~120 KPSI
• Hands: 2 weavers, approximately 4 months
• Pile: 9-11 mm, hand-spun
• Dye: vegetable
• Origin: India

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