Rugsville Sultanabad Burgundy Wool Carpet 10' x 14'

By the late 1800s, the workshops at Sultanabad in central Iran had reshaped what the Anglo-American drawing room expected of a carpet. A European buying office in Tabriz pushed weavers to thin the dense floral repeats of classical Persia into the open, breathing fields collectors wanted. The pattern in this rug descends directly from that line.

Four weavers at the tufting frame for four to five months, with a finisher working behind them. The yarn was prepared in the same workshop where the rug was made; the small-batch dye process gives the surface its slight tonal drift. The back was sealed in latex with a cotton scrim, then the field was sheared at finish for an even pile and washed to settle the dye.

The composition

Built on a burgundy register. The field is held open enough that the eye moves across it rather than landing in any single place. The slight irregularities in dye saturation are not flaws; they are the signature of wool batched in small lots and dyed in copper vats by hand. Photographic accuracy was never the goal. The colour the rug carries in person is warmer, softer, and longer-lived than any image of it can suggest. The geometry is sized for the room rather than for the photograph; the rug rewards a close look as much as a standing one.

The piece in a room

10' x 14' is gallery scale. The rug carries a great-room or a banquet dining arrangement and reads from the second floor of a double-height room. At this scale the pattern becomes composition rather than decoration; the architecture is built around it. The piece works against polished concrete, marble and wide-plank oak with equal authority. It is the principal colour decision in the room and asks the rest of the palette to take its cue from there.

Care

Vacuum weekly with no rotary brush; the beater action will pull tufts loose from the latex bond and the piece will lose body before its time. Blot spills with a clean dry cloth followed by a slightly damp one. Initial shedding for the first month or two is normal. Professional dry-cleaning at two-year intervals preserves the surface.

Reference

• Medium: hand-tufted wool, latex bonded with cotton scrim
• Dimensions: 10' x 14' (305 x 427 cm)
• Construction: hand-tufted through stretched canvas, sheared finish
• Hands: 4 tufters and a finisher, four to five months
• Pile: 12 mm, hand-spun wool
• Origin: India

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