Rugsville Hearst Contemporary Red Wool Carpet 5' x 8'

Contemporary carpet design lives between the modernist textile workshop and the studio-art tradition. The rug is built to read as a single composition rather than a repeat, and the colour is treated the way a painter treats colour, as a structural choice rather than as decoration.

Two weavers and a finisher worked the rug over six to seven weeks. Wool was pushed through stretched cotton canvas one row at a time with a tufting gun, then the back was sealed with natural latex and a cotton scrim. The final pass was done by hand with long shears, cutting the pile down so the design reads in relief above the field. Hand-spun wool, washed after finishing to settle the colour and bring the surface to its sheared finish.

The composition

A red register runs through the composition as the structural colour. The geometry is sized to be read whole at standing distance and to reward inspection from a low chair beside the rug. Plant dye gives the surface its slow tonal drift; the slight unevenness across the field is the visible argument for the medium and is what keeps the piece from looking printed. From across the room the field gathers into one quiet ground; on close approach the small irregularities become visible as life in the surface.

The piece in a room

5' x 8' is the working living-room scale for a flat or a primary bedroom. The rug holds a three-seater sofa with a chair on each side, or floats centred under a six-seat dining table. Walnut or oak floors set the palette off; pale stone lets the rug carry the room as the dominant ground colour. Furniture sits with the front legs on the rug and the back legs on the floor, which is the canonical living-room arrangement at this size.

Care

Vacuum the surface weekly on suction. The latex back will not tolerate wet cleaning at home, so spills are addressed only with blotting and minimal moisture. Loose fibre clears from the pile across the first month or two of use. A professional dry clean every two to three years preserves both the surface finish and the structural integrity of the back.

Reference

• Medium: hand-tufted wool, latex bonded with cotton scrim
• Dimensions: 5' x 8' (152 x 244 cm)
• Construction: hand-tufted through stretched canvas, sheared finish
• Hands: 2 tufters and a finisher, six to seven weeks
• Pile: 12 mm, hand-spun wool
• Origin: India

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