Rugsville Mugal Traditional Brown Wool Carpet 2'6" x 10'

There is a quiet logic to the traditional tradition. The pattern carries information about the workshop, the year, the dye lot, the hand of the weaver, all encoded in irregularities a machine could never reproduce.

On this loom, 2 weavers shared the warp for 4 months. Roughly 648,000 hand-tied knots in New Zealand wool on a cotton foundation, the pile cropped to 12 mm. The wool was vegetable-dyed in small batches using madder, indigo, walnut hull, and pomegranate rind, each bath matured for two to three weeks before the yarn was lowered.

The composition

Across the field, brown and walnut bleeds into adjacent tones with the soft variation that vegetable dye produces. The pattern rewards a long look. The same border element repeats with small irregularities of spacing that mark out the hand of the weaver from one foot of the loom to the next.

What you are buying

This is the entry point for serious hand-knotted work. The construction is the same as the higher-priced pieces in this catalogue. The economy comes from a slightly lower knot count and a more direct dye process, not from any compromise in the loom or the wool. A hand-knotted carpet of this kind is one of the few household objects that still gains value with use rather than losing it.

The piece in a room

At 3' × 10' (91 × 305 cm), this is a corridor or kitchen-galley piece. The pattern is drawn to be read along its length rather than from a single vantage. It anchors a long entrance hall, a passage between bedrooms, or the working side of a kitchen island.

Conservation

Rotate a half turn each spring and autumn so light and footfall age the rug evenly. Vacuum weekly with the beater bar disengaged, suction only. Blot spills with a clean cotton cloth. Hand-wash by a wool-trained conservator every four to five years. With this care a hand-knotted piece of this construction runs eighty to a hundred years.

Reference

• Medium: hand-knotted New Zealand wool on cotton foundation
• Dimensions: 3' × 10' (91 × 305 cm)
• Construction: Persian asymmetric knot
• Knot density: approximately 150 KPSI
• Total knot count: approximately 648,000
• Hands: 2 weavers, 4 months
• Pile: 12 mm
• Dye: vegetable (madder, indigo, walnut hull, pomegranate)
• Origin: India

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