Rugsville Overdyed Peacock Wool Carpet 10' x 14'

Overdyeing is a finishing technique borrowed from the Turkish trade, where weavers in the late twentieth century began rebathing existing wool carpets in a single saturated colour to produce surfaces that read as monochromes from a distance and as full pattern on approach. The process is unforgiving. The base rug must already be high quality, because a poor weave will not hold the second bath evenly, and the finishing dye must be matched precisely to the underlying drawing or the pattern is lost.

This carpet was first hand-knotted in India over approximately eight months by a team of four weavers working a vertical loom. The base drawing is a traditional floral Persian. After weaving and shearing, the rug entered a peacock-blue overdye bath, multi-day cold immersion in plant-derived indigo blended with weld for the green shift, then sun-dried over a wide rack. The result is a deep peacock blue field with the original floral drawing rising through the surface where the dye took differently across the underlying palette.

The composition

A peacock-blue field with the underlying Persian floral pattern visible as tonal shifts within the blue. The drawing reads as a watermark rather than as competing colour, which is the whole purpose of the overdye process. The blue carries a faint green at certain angles where the weld bath layered over the indigo, the way a glaze sits over an undercoat in oil paint. Daylight deepens the indigo over years, the green softens, the underlying drawing emerges more clearly as the surface dye lightens with traffic.

What you are buying

Overdyed wool carpets at 10' x 14' (305 x 427 cm) appear in international design galleries at four to ten thousand dollars per square metre depending on the base rug, which puts a comparable piece in the fifty-to-one-hundred-thousand-dollar window. This is a current weaving on a hand-knotted base, finished in a traditional plant-dye overdye bath. The rug is sold to be used. It appreciates with use rather than depreciating in the way most furnishing does.

The piece in a room

10' x 14' (305 x 427 cm) holds a substantial living area or a long dining floor. The peacock blue suits both modernist and traditional architectures, sitting against white or pale grey walls as a focal field, or against deeper blue and green walls as a settled ground. It pairs with brass, walnut, leather, and linen, and equally with concrete floors, steel-framed glass, and modernist furniture in oak and chrome.

Conservation

Rotate the carpet twice a year to age the surface evenly. Vacuum weekly on suction only, beater bar lifted off the pile. Blot any spill immediately with a clean cotton cloth, never rub. Schedule a hand wash with a wool conservator every five to seven years using plant-soap chemistry. The overdye is colour-stable but more sensitive to harsh detergent than a single-dyed rug, so insist on a gentle process. With care, the carpet runs decades.

Reference

• Medium: hand-knotted wool on cotton foundation, overdyed in finishing
• Dimensions: 305 x 427 cm (10' x 14')
• Construction: Persian asymmetric knot
• Hands: 4 weavers, approximately 8 months
• Pile: hand-spun highland wool
• Dye: vegetable (indigo, weld base; original underlying palette)
• Origin: India

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