Rugsville Persian Green Wool Carpet 2'6" x 16'

Persian weaving in green tones grew out of regional workshops where natural dye and slow loom work were the only options. The composition here keeps that discipline, with knot density and dye process matched to the weight the design needs. A heavier composition gets a tighter knot count; an open field gets the lower density that lets the wool breathe.

A single weaver shared the loom for five to six months. Around 1.0 million hand-tied knots in wool, every one tied by feel and beaten down before the next row begins. The pile is wool, chosen for its capacity to take dye in depth and to wear into a softer surface rather than a flatter one. The dyes were prepared in the traditional way and matured before the wool was lowered into the bath.

The composition

The composition uses green as its base note, with the Persian motif articulated in shifts of density rather than sharp colour contrasts. At distance the rug reads as a single tone; on approach the pattern resolves. That two-distance behaviour is why the design holds in rooms of different scales. The drawing has been calibrated to work both as floor furniture seen from the sofa and as graphic ground seen from the doorway.

What you are buying

Hand-knotted wool work in this fibre and dye discipline reaches retail in Europe and North America at multiples of the figure shown here. The price reflects direct workshop sourcing rather than gallery markup. The rug ages into the room rather than out of it; a hand-knotted carpet on this foundation is one of the few household objects that gains rather than loses value as it lives. A wool carpet at this knot count is generally accepted as a generational asset rather than a consumer good.

The piece in a room

At 2'6" x 16' (76 × 488 cm) this is corridor scale, a long hallway, the side of a long bed, or the run between kitchen counters. The Persian drawing works lengthwise so the eye is led down the rug rather than across it. The green field absorbs heavy footfall without showing wear pattern, which matters because runners take more traffic per square inch than any other rug format in the house.

Conservation

Daily life is light on a hand-knotted wool carpet. Suction vacuum weekly, rotate every six months, blot spills immediately with cool water and a cotton cloth. Schedule a conservator hand-wash every five years. Under that care the rug lasts a century and gains depth as it does so. Avoid rubber-backed pads and chemical spot treatments; both attack the wool and the natural dyes.

Reference

• Medium: hand-knotted wool on cotton foundation
• Dimensions: 2'6" x 16' (76 × 488 cm)
• Construction: Persian asymmetric knot
• Knot density: ~180 KPSI
• Total knot count: ~1.0 million
• Hands: a single weaver, five to six months
• Pile: hand-spun wool
• Origin: India

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