Rugsville Elham Persian-Style Floral Ivory Handmade Wool Carpet 10' x 10' Square

A floral all-over composition is a discipline. It asks the room around it to hold its line, and rewards a deliberate hand at the level of furniture, lighting, and wall colour.

The piece was hand-tufted in India over 6 to 7 weeks by a team of two tufters and a finisher. New zealand wool was pushed through a stretched cotton canvas one row at a time with a tufting gun, then sealed at the back with natural latex and a cotton scrim. The last pass was carried out by hand with long shears, dropping the pile to 15 mm and lifting the pattern into low relief above the field.

The composition

The palette is ivory and warm cream. The wool was over-dyed in two baths rather than dipped once, which gives the colour the slight depth a single saturation cannot reach. The relief between the pattern and the ground is what makes the rug read at room scale rather than dissolving into noise. Walk closer and the carving registers; step back and the design holds as a single graphic plane on the floor.

Tufting allows a faster build than hand-knotting, which is why a piece of this scale comes in at a fraction of the price of a knotted equivalent. The trade-off is the cotton scrim backing instead of a woven foundation; the rug is meant to be used over an underlay rather than walked on bare slip. With reasonable care, the construction holds for fifteen to twenty years of daily use.

The piece in a room

A square rug at 10' Square (305 × 305 cm) suits a square dining table, a meditation corner, or a child's reading nook. The geometry holds the layout against the four walls of the room. The ivory field pairs with both pale stone and warm wood floors, and works equally with traditional and modern furniture above it.

Care

Vacuum weekly with the beater bar disengaged. Every tufted rug loses some fibre to a beater bar regardless of price. Blot spills with a clean cotton cloth, never rub; press down to absorb rather than pulling across the surface. Expect light shedding for the first six weeks of use as loose fibres work themselves out of the pile; the density of the body of the rug is unaffected. Professional dry clean every two to three years. Use a non-slip underlay to extend the life of the backing.

Reference

• Medium: hand-tufted New Zealand wool, latex bonded with cotton scrim backing
• Dimensions: 10' Square (305 × 305 cm)
• Pile: 15 mm
• Hands: 2 tufters and 1 finisher, approximately 6 to 7 weeks
• Origin: India

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