Rugsville Lime Green Wool Overdyed Carpet 9' x 12'

The lime-green register sits at the most contemporary end of the overdye spectrum. It takes the dense, often busy patterning of a traditional floral carpet and reduces it to a single chromatic field with internal architectural detail. The result is a carpet that holds the labour and structure of a hand-knotted weaving but reads in a room the way a large monochrome painting reads on a wall, as a considered single statement rather than as decorative incident.

This 9' x 12' (274 x 366 cm) carpet began as a hand-knotted traditional floral on a cotton foundation, woven over roughly six months by three weavers using the Persian asymmetric knot. Once off the loom, the rug was washed in soft water, sheared down to a low pile, and lowered into a single full-immersion dye vat tinted with lime green until the entire surface had moved into the same chromatic register. The original colours remain visible as tonal modulations within the field.

The composition

A lime-green field with the ghosted structure of the original floral pattern reading through. The colour is not flat. The original dark passes now read as a deeper forest green and the original light passes read as a brighter chartreuse, which gives the surface a slow internal rhythm rather than a uniform chromatic skin. Under warm light the green reads denser; under cool daylight it brightens. The piece behaves like a single saturated colour with quiet structure inside it.

What you are buying

Overdyed hand-knotted carpets at this scale, with this labour content, sell at $10,000 to $22,000 through Western dealers and design showrooms. The piece in front of you is the same construction at ₹1,76,099, against an MSRP of ₹4,16,000. A hand-knotted carpet, even when finished with a contemporary overdye, appreciates with use rather than depreciating, because the underlying weaving holds its structural value independent of fashion.

The piece in a room

9' x 12' is the canonical drawing-room scale. The lime-green palette is at its strongest with cool grey or white plaster walls, with raw oak or pale ash floors, and with linen, leather, or brushed-steel furniture. The carpet reads best when allowed to be the principal chromatic event in a room and when the surrounding palette is held to neutrals.

Conservation

Rotate one half turn each spring and autumn. Vacuum weekly with the beater bar disengaged. Blot spills with a clean cotton cloth, address them within minutes, and never rub. A wool-trained conservator should hand-wash the piece every five years. The overdye is bonded into the wool and is colour-fast under proper care.

Reference

• Medium: hand-knotted overdyed wool on cotton foundation
• Dimensions: 274 x 366 cm (9' x 12')
• Construction: Persian asymmetric knot
• Hands: 3 weavers, ~6 months at the loom; immersion overdye finishing
• Pile: hand-spun wool, low
• Origin: India

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