Rugsville Sadie Medallion Red Blue Wool Carpet 9' x 12'

The medallion-and-field carpet built around saturated red and saturated blue is one of the foundational compositions of village Persian weaving. The two colours sit at opposite ends of the dye palette, madder against indigo, and the contrast between them organises the entire surface. The Sadie Medallion in front of you brings that nineteenth-century vocabulary into a contemporary nine-by-twelve weaving.

Three to four weavers in India spent close to five months at the loom because nine by twelve is a substantial cartoon to read knot by knot. The drawing is squared rather than curvilinear, which gives the medallion its characteristic stepped silhouette, and the wool was lustre-washed after shearing so the surface picks up light the way a much older carpet would.

The composition

A central medallion in deep red sits on a saturated blue field, with ivory corner spandrels and a layered border in close walnut and indigo. The contrast between red and blue carries the whole rug. The pile is sheared smooth and lustre-washed, which gives the surface a velvety hand and lets the colours catch direct light. As the wool ages, the red will warm toward terracotta and the blue will settle a shade deeper.

What you are buying

Antique village carpets of this scale and palette trade at international auction at twenty to forty thousand US dollars routinely when they appear, and condition examples are increasingly limited. This is a current weaving on the same upright loom, in yarn-dyed wool, to the same compositional logic. The rug appreciates with use rather than depreciating, which is the structural argument for paying for hand-knotted work.

The piece in a room

9' x 12' (274 x 366 cm) is the canonical drawing-room scale and the right size to anchor a primary seating arrangement or a ten-seat dining table. The red and blue palette reads against cream walls and limewashed white, against oak and walnut floors, and against brass and unframed art. The rug expects to be the colour event in the composition.

Conservation

Vacuum weekly without the beater bar. Rotate end-to-end at the change of seasons so the field ages evenly. Blot spills with absorbent cotton, never rub. A wool conservator should wash the carpet every five to seven years. The rug expects an eighty-to-one-hundred-year service life on this regimen.

Reference

• Medium: hand-knotted yarn-dyed wool on cotton foundation
• Dimensions: 274 x 366 cm (9' x 12')
• Construction: Persian asymmetric knot
• Hands: 3-4 weavers, around 5 months
• Pile: 9 mm, lustre washed
• Origin: India

Free shipping across India. Cash on delivery available. Seven-day exchange. The carpet ships crated for storage re-use.