Rugsville Oxidye Floral Multi Hand Knotted Wool Silk Modern Carpet 4' x 6'

The pattern in this carpet grew out of contemporary Indian studio practice, where weavers and designers work in dialogue with abstract painting, mid-century textile design, and the older vocabulary of the Persian carpet. The result is a knotted field that reads as a considered modern composition rather than a decorative repeat.

One weaver carried the carpet from warp to bind-off across two to three months at a vertical loom. Around 622,080 knots in total, every one tied by feel against a vertical beam. The pile is a wool ground with silk picking out the pattern, the wool carrying the body of the field and the silk lifting the highlights with a slight surface lustre. The dyes were drawn from madder root, indigo, walnut hull, and oak gall, prepared in copper vats and matured for two to three weeks before the yarn was lowered.

The composition

A natural undyed ground carrying the warmth of the long-staple fleece itself. The composition is built around abstract gesture rather than repeat, with the pattern reading as a considered drawing on the field rather than as a decorative motif. The colour will not stay where it starts. Over the next decade the ground will lighten by a half tone, the indigos will deepen, and the corners that catch the most light will warm the fastest.

What you are buying

Hand-knotted wool of this grade, in this composition, is sold by Western design dealers at three to four times this listing once the carpet has been sourced, freighted, and presented in a showroom. The rug appreciates with use rather than depreciating, which is a property no other object on a floor carries at any price. The cost per year over a sixty-year working life puts the piece below the cost of a printed reproduction with a five-year horizon. The list price of around Rs 84,000 reflects a workshop equivalent on the open market; the listed price brings the rug down to the level of a serious entry into collecting hand-knotted wool.

The piece in a room

4' x 6' (122 x 183 cm) anchors a small seating area, the foot of a king bed, or a study. Pairs with raw plaster, walnut, brass, ivory linen, and the soft black ironwork that frames the natural ground.

Conservation

Quarter-turn the rug each season so the pattern wears uniformly. Suction-only vacuuming weekly, no beater bar. Blot spills with cotton and let the pile dry in open air. Hand wash by a wool conservator every six years. A vegetable-dyed wool carpet, looked after this way, runs three generations.

Reference

• Medium: hand-knotted New Zealand wool with silk highlights on cotton foundation
• Dimensions: 122 x 183 cm (4' x 6')
• Construction: Persian asymmetric knot
• Knot density: ~180 KPSI
• Total knot count: ~622,080
• Hands: one weaver, two to three months
• Pile: 9 mm wool with silk-picked highlights
• Dye: vegetable (madder, indigo, walnut hull, oak gall)
• Origin: India

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