GRASSLOOP Aqua Modern Handmade Wool Carpet

Modern hand-tufted design treats the rug as a painted ground. A reduced palette, a confident composition, a relief between figure and field cut into the pile by hand. The drawing in this carpet works in that vocabulary. The geometry holds at room scale and reveals on close inspection.

The rug was hand-tufted in India over 4 to 6 weeks by 2 tufters and a finisher. Wool was pushed through a stretched cotton canvas one row at a time with a tufting gun, sealed at the back with natural latex and a cotton scrim, and then trimmed by hand with long shears. The relief cut between figure and field is what makes the pattern read at room scale rather than dissolving into noise. The cartoon was drawn at full size before any wool was loaded, and the colour was selected from yarn skeins matched against the original studio drawing under daylight.

The composition

The field reads in mixed earth tones first. The supporting tones are kept narrow so the eye reads the composition as a whole rather than getting caught in a colour competition. The pile is cut for relief between figure and ground, and the wool itself carries the slight handmade irregularity that distinguishes a tufted carpet from a printed one. The drawing was transferred from a full-scale cartoon before any wool was pushed through the canvas.

The piece in a room

Size as listed in the product specs. The format anchors a primary bedroom, with the bed centred over the rug and the side tables sitting on the field rather than off it. The drawing extends past the foot of the bed by enough to register as a complete composition. The mixed earth tones field works against walnut and oak floors, with linen and leather upholstery, and with both painted and limewashed walls.

Care

Vacuum weekly with the beater bar disengaged. Every tufted rug loses fibre to a beater bar regardless of price. Blot spills with a clean cotton cloth, never rub. Expect light shedding for the first six weeks of use as loose fibres work themselves out of the pile, after which the body of the rug stays dense and stable. Professional dry clean every two to three years to restore the lift of the wool.

Reference

• Medium: hand-tufted wool, latex bonded, cotton scrim
• Dimensions: Size as listed in the product specs
• Hands: 2 tufters and 1 finisher, ~4 to 6 weeks
• Pile: 12 to 14 mm
• Origin: India

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