Rugsville Heriz Red & beige Hand Knotted Wool Carpet 2'6"x12' Runner

The Heriz district in northwest Iran weaves carpets with a stepped, large-scale geometry that reads from across a room. Their drawing is angular where Tabriz is curved. The composition here keeps that reading distance and that confidence of straight line.

Two weavers shared the loom for 4 months. Around 778 thousand hand-tied knots at roughly 180 per square inch, every one set against a vertical beam by feel. The pile is highland wool, prepared in small batches and lowered into copper vats for plant-based dye drawn from indigo, weld, oak gall, and walnut hull, each colour matured for two to three weeks before the wool is dyed. The foundation is cotton, hand-spun and tensioned across the warp before the first row of knots is tied. The fringe at either end is the warp itself, knotted off and trimmed by hand once the rug comes off the loom. The piece reads at 2'6" x 12' (76 x 366 cm) in red and beige, finished in India.

The composition

A field of red and beige holds the composition. The drawing is set down with a discipline that lets the pattern read at distance and resolve on approach. The colour is held just below shouting volume so the rug carries a room without claiming ownership of it. The slight irregularity in the dye batches gives the field a depth that printed cloth cannot replicate, and that depth is the reason hand-finished wool keeps its place in considered interiors.

What you are buying

Equivalent hand-knotted wool carpets sourced through Western dealers carry a multiple of this listing. What you are paying for is months of work by a small team of weavers, the cost of long-staple wool, and a piece of textile that gains rather than loses value across its working life. There is no other object you put on a floor with that property at any price.

The piece in a room

2'6" x 12' (76 x 366 cm) is the working corridor and bedside scale. The pattern repeats across its length without obvious tile, so the rug reads as a single composition rather than as a strip of repeating motif. The red register works against pale plaster walls and against panelled hallways with equal hold. The piece adds a soft footfall to a passage that would otherwise echo, which is the second reason a runner exists.

Conservation

Keep the rug out of direct sunlight for prolonged hours per day to slow the natural lightening of plant dye. Vacuum with suction only. Rotate twice a year. A wool-trained conservator should hand-wash the piece every five years. Properly cared for, the rug runs three generations.

Reference

• Medium: hand-knotted long-staple wool on cotton foundation
• Dimensions: 76 x 366 cm (2'6" x 12')
• Construction: Persian asymmetric knot
• Hands: 2 weavers, 4 months
• Pile: 10-12 mm
• Dye: vegetable and chrome blend, colour-fast
• Origin: India

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