Rugsville Sultanabad Burgundy Gold Wool Carpet 10'x14'

By the late nineteenth century, the looms of Sultanabad in central Persia had reshaped the European drawing room. Western buyers wanted the dense classical repeats softened into broader, more architectural fields, and the workshops obliged with a vocabulary of palmettes and trailing vines that have anchored serious interiors ever since. The carpet in front of you reads from that same playbook, with a burgundy ground that pulls warmth out of every adjacent surface and gold-yellow palmettes that catch lamplight along the spine of the field.

Four weavers shared the loom for close to seven months. The pile is hand-spun wool, dyed in small batches before mounting so the saturation varies subtly across the field the way old Sultanabads do. The foundation is cotton, the knotting Persian asymmetric, and the borders carry a layered ivory guard band that frames the burgundy without enclosing it.

The composition

Burgundy reads almost claret in the centre and softens toward terracotta near the corners. Gold palmettes float on indigo vine work that runs from medallion to border without a single rigid axis. The weavers worked the corner resolutions by eye rather than by template, which is why the symmetry never feels mechanical. Over the next decade the burgundy will lighten by a half-tone, the gold will warm to amber, and the cream guard band will settle into bone.

What you are buying

Period Sultanabads of comparable scale and condition appear at Rippon Boswell and Christie's in the twenty-five to forty-five thousand dollar range when they surface at all. This is a freshly woven piece in the same tradition, on the same loom geometry, in the same wool tier. A carpet of this construction appreciates with use rather than depreciating, and that property is unique among objects placed on a floor.

The piece in a room

10' x 14' (305 x 427 cm) is the canonical scale for a long dining hall or a generous open-plan living area in India. The burgundy holds against walnut floors and carries a sectional sofa or a twelve-seat dining table without disappearing under the furniture. Mid-tone walls in clay, taupe, or warm grey let the gold palmettes register; pure white walls thin out the colour and should be avoided.

Conservation

Rotate the carpet a half turn each spring and autumn so foot traffic and natural light age the wool evenly. Vacuum once a week with the beater bar disengaged. Blot any spill with a clean cotton cloth, never rub. A wool-trained conservator should hand-wash the piece every five to seven years. Cared for this way, the carpet will run eighty to a hundred years.

Reference

• Medium: hand-knotted wool on cotton foundation
• Dimensions: 305 x 427 cm (10' x 14')
• Construction: Persian asymmetric knot
• Hands: 4 weavers, ~7 months
• Pile: hand-spun wool
• Origin: India

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