Rugsville Hand Knotted Brown Ivory Vegetable Dyes Wool Round Carpet 10050

About 217,146 hand-tied knots. Roughly two to three months of work at a vertical loom. The pattern is older than the studio that drew it, the wool came from the same supply that feeds the higher-end Indian export trade, and the dye was struck on the yarn before the rug was ever set up.

One weaver carried the carpet from warp to bind-off across two to three months at a vertical loom. Around 217,146 knots in total, every one tied by feel against a vertical beam. The pile is long-staple New Zealand wool, spun in modest batches and dyed before it ever reached the loom. The dyes were drawn from madder root, indigo, walnut hull, and oak gall, prepared in copper vats and matured for two to three weeks before the yarn was lowered.

The composition

An ivory ground that holds the pattern up like a sheet of paper. The pattern carries a central medallion, quartered spandrels, and a layered border the eye reads as a single composition rather than a sum of motifs. Vegetable dye does not arrive complete. It moves over years, and the rug you live with at year ten is not the rug you take delivery of at year zero.

What you are buying

Hand-knotted wool of this grade, in this composition, is sold by Western design dealers at three to four times this listing once the carpet has been sourced, freighted, and presented in a showroom. The rug appreciates with use rather than depreciating, which is a property no other object on a floor carries at any price. The cost per year over a sixty-year working life puts the piece below the cost of a printed reproduction with a five-year horizon. The list price of around Rs 69,297 reflects a workshop equivalent on the open market; the listed price brings the rug down to the level of a serious entry into collecting hand-knotted wool.

The piece in a room

4' round (122 cm round) sits comfortably under a small entry table or as a centre point in a reading nook. Pairs with walnut, brass, leather, indigo upholstery, and the cooler whites and pale plasters that carry the field forward.

Conservation

Rotate the rug 180 degrees every six months so foot traffic and direct light age the field evenly. Use suction only on the vacuum, with the beater bar lifted. Blot any spill immediately with cotton, never rub a wet stain into the pile. A wool-trained hand wash every five years restores the lustre.

Reference

• Medium: hand-knotted New Zealand wool on cotton foundation
• Dimensions: 122 cm round (4' round)
• Construction: Persian asymmetric knot
• Knot density: ~120 KPSI
• Total knot count: ~217,146
• Hands: one weaver, two to three months
• Pile: 10 mm long-staple wool
• Dye: vegetable (madder, indigo, walnut hull, oak gall)
• Origin: India

Free freight India-wide. Cash on delivery available. 7-day exchange. The crate is built to be re-used for relocation or off-season storage.