Pattern, in serious carpet design, is never invented; it is inherited and revised. This piece is a current revision of a vocabulary the form has carried for several hundred years.

Production took a team of two tufters and a finisher around 5 weeks of bench time on a stretched primary canvas. Wool was pushed through a stretched cotton primary canvas one row at a time with a hand-held tufting gun, the colour separations followed off a paper cartoon pinned behind the frame. Once the field was complete, the back was sealed with natural latex and laminated to a cotton scrim that locks the tuft loops in place. After the latex set, a finisher worked the surface with long shears for the better part of a week, lifting and trimming the pattern field by hand to give the design the depth the loom does not produce on its own. The relief catches the slow rake of evening light.

The composition

The neutral field works as a quiet ground for a pattern that reveals itself on approach. Furniture sits on the rug without competing for attention. The colour is built up from two passes of dye on the same wool rather than a single dipped bath, which is why the saturation reads as depth rather than as flat surface.

The piece in a room

size as listed anchors a primary bedroom, a medium living room, or a sitting area in a larger flat. The neutral pairs cleanly with walnut, oak, teak, and warm stone floors and answers both white and mid-tone walls. Position the front legs of seating onto the field and leave a frame of bare floor around the perimeter so the rug reads as a defined object rather than as wall-to-wall coverage.

Care

Suction-only vacuuming weekly. Beater bars pull at the tufted base and shorten the working life of the rug. Blot spills immediately with clean cotton, never with paper towel which leaves fibre behind. Expect six weeks of light shedding from new as the loose ends of the cut pile work themselves clear. A professional dry clean every three years keeps the surface from compacting.

Reference

• Medium: hand-tufted New Zealand wool, natural latex bonded, cotton scrim backing
• Dimensions: size as listed
• Construction: hand-tufted, hand-carved finish
• Pile: 13 mm
• Hands: 2 tufters and 1 finisher, ~5 weeks
• Backing: cotton scrim over natural latex
• Origin: India

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