Rugsville Peace Green Red Wool Carpet 8' x 10'

Persian carpets in the Peace family take their name from a strand of nineteenth-century Iranian weaving where colour was used to settle a room rather than to dominate it. The combination of green ground and red figure is older than the name. It runs back through Tabriz court production into the Safavid garden carpets, where the same opposition stood for the orchard against its blossoming trees. What survives in this rug is the equilibrium of those two saturations, neither one allowed to win against the other.

Three weavers worked the loom for close to six months. About 2.5 million asymmetric knots were tied against the cotton warp by feel rather than by chart, each row beaten down with a metal comb. The pile is hand-spun wool, yarn-dyed in the skein before the warp was strung, then washed with luster after shearing to soften the colour. The dyes are mineral and plant in combination, the green built up in successive baths to keep the slight tonal drift that distinguishes hand-dyed wool from machine pigment.

The composition

A green field carrying a central medallion in deep red, the corner spandrels echoing the medallion in lower saturation. The border is a single wide band of the same red, drawn with restraint, with no secondary guard band crowding the field. The colour will shift over the next ten years. The green will warm and the red will lose its initial heat. What now reads as contrast will, in time, read as harmony, the way a good antique reaches its true colour decades after it leaves the loom.

What you are buying

Antique medallion-and-field carpets at this scale with comparable condition sell at Christie's and Rippon Boswell in the range of $8,000 to $20,000 when they appear. This is a new weaving in the same tradition, hand-knotted, in hand-spun wool, with vegetable-leaning dyes. The rug appreciates with use rather than depreciating. There is no other object in the house with that property at this price.

The piece in a room

8' x 10' (244 x 305 cm) carries a primary living room around a sofa and two armchairs, or a six-to-eight seat dining table with the chairs pulled clear. The green and red palette holds against warm wood floors and against pale walls. It pairs with brass, leather, and unframed art. Direct sunlight helps the colour breathe rather than dulling it.

Conservation

Rotate a half turn each spring and autumn to spread wear and light evenly across the field. Vacuum weekly with the suction only, no beater bar. Blot spills with a cotton cloth. Hand wash by a wool-trained conservator every five to seven years. Stored dry and rolled, the rug runs eighty to a hundred years and outlasts its first owner.

Reference

• Medium: hand-knotted wool on cotton foundation
• Dimensions: 244 x 305 cm (8' x 10')
• Construction: Persian asymmetric knot
• Hands: 3 weavers, ~6 months
• Pile: 10 mm, hand-spun wool
• Dye: yarn-dyed wool, luster washed
• Origin: India

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