Rugsville Sadie Medallion Red Blue Wool Carpet 8' x 10'

Red and blue have been the founding pair of carpet design since the loom began. Indigo and madder were the two pigments most weavers had reliable access to in any region, and the colour relationship that emerged became a kind of universal vocabulary, drawn on by Anatolian villages, Safavid court workshops, Caucasian highlanders, and the great Persian medallion houses. The Sadie pattern carries that inheritance forward at full living-room scale.

Three weavers shared the loom for close to six months. Around 2.5 million asymmetric knots were tied by hand against the cotton warp, each row packed into the previous with a metal comb. The pile is hand-spun wool, yarn-dyed in the skein before the warp was set, then luster washed at finishing so the surface relaxes and the colour settles into its mellow register. The red is built across two dye baths, the blue across two more, which is why both colours hold a small tonal drift rather than reading as machine-flat.

The composition

A wide red field carrying a stepped blue medallion at the centre, the corner work echoing the medallion at lower saturation, the border drawn in deeper blue at heavier saturation. The drawing is graphic, line widths bold enough to read from across the room. Over the first decade the red will lose its initial heat and the blue will deepen. What now reads as graphic contrast will, in time, read as the kind of resolved colour balance only an aged medallion carpet holds.

What you are buying

Antique medallion carpets at 8' x 10' with comparable colour and condition trade through Sotheby's, Bonhams, and Rippon Boswell at three to five times this asking price when they reach auction in clean state. This is a new weaving in the same lineage, hand-knotted on a vertical loom, in hand-spun wool, with mineral and plant-leaning dyes. The rug appreciates with use rather than depreciating. The structural property that distinguishes a hand-knotted piece from anything else on a floor is exactly that.

The piece in a room

8' x 10' (244 x 305 cm) carries a primary living room laid out around a sofa and two armchairs with the rug fully under the seating, or a dining setup for six to eight with the chairs clear of the field. The red and blue palette pairs with walnut, oak, brass, leather, and unframed paper or canvas art. It holds against lime-washed walls in cool tones and against deeper grey plaster. It centres a library or a study without crowding the architecture.

Conservation

Rotate a half turn each spring and autumn so light and foot traffic spread evenly across the face. Vacuum weekly with the beater bar disengaged. Blot spills with a cotton cloth. A wool-trained conservator should hand wash the piece every five to seven years to lift embedded soil. The rug runs eighty to a hundred years with this care.

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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