Rugsville Gabbeh Stripes Rust Gold Wool Carpet 4' x 6'

The Gabbeh tradition came out of the nomadic flocks of southwestern Iran, where shepherd weavers worked away from the workshop with no cartoon and no pattern book. The pile sat thick and the geometry stayed loose because the loom was portable and the wool was their own. The piece in front of you carries that lineage forward, with the same conviction that less drawing on the back of the loom produces more presence on the floor.

The pile is hand-knotted wool on a cotton foundation. 2 weavers shared the loom across 2-3 months, working at roughly 80 knots per square inch. That gives a finished count of around 276 thousand hand-tied knots. The dyes were prepared in small batches and the wool was lowered into them before being washed in clean water and sun-dried over several days. Every step is done by hand because the result depends on it.

The composition

The field is open, the geometry sits where it falls, and the colour shifts with the wool from one knot to the next. That irregularity is structural to the form. A flat field on a Gabbeh would be a contradiction. The dominant tones run to rust, gold.

What you are buying

An accessible point of entry into a hand-knotted carpet of real workshop discipline. The construction is the same as on the larger pieces in the same lineage; the price reflects only the smaller area of pile. The rug is meant to be used and conserved rather than displayed and protected.

The piece in a room

4' x 6' (122 x 183 cm) is the working scale for a flat-living dining area or a primary bedroom with the rug under the lower two-thirds of the bed. The composition fills the eye without overwhelming the room. The rust tones sit well against lime-washed plaster, raw oak, and warm metal.

Conservation

Treat the rug as the long-lived object it is. Suction-only vacuuming, weekly. Twice-yearly rotation to balance light and footfall. A wool-trained hand wash every five years. Spills blotted, never rubbed. With that routine the piece appreciates rather than depreciates, the way every well-kept hand-knotted weaving does.

Reference

• Medium: hand-knotted wool on cotton foundation
• Dimensions: 4' x 6' (122 x 183 cm)
• Construction: hand-tied asymmetric knot
• Knot density: ~80 KPSI
• Total knot count: ~276k
• Hands: 2 weavers, 2-3 months
• Pile: 8 mm, hand-spun wool
• Dye: vegetable and low-impact mineral
• Origin: India

Free shipping anywhere in India. Cash on delivery available. 7-day exchange. Arrives crated for safe transit and re-usable for storage.