Rugsville Tabriz Hunting Rust Gold Carpet 11653

Tabriz is the city of the carpet. Its workshops have produced for the court and the export trade for five hundred years, and the Tabriz technical standard, fine wool, cotton foundation, asymmetric knot at high density, set the bar that every other Persian centre measured against. What this rug carries into a current interior is the inheritance of that practice.

1 weaver, 3 months of weaving. The cartoon was prepared by a designer working in scale on graph paper, then transferred to the loom one column of knots at a time. The wool was hand-spun on a charkha to keep the lustre that mill-spun yarn loses in the carding. The piece is offered at 2'6" x 12' (76 × 366 cm) in a gold and rust register, made in India.

The composition

Colour holds in the gold and rust register. The pattern works because the negative space is allowed to breathe. The motifs hold their place, the field around them stays open, and the eye is given somewhere to rest between figures. That openness is what separates a good repeat from a busy one, and what allows the rug to sit under furniture without the pattern crowding the room. The wool is the carrier here, accepting the colour without flattening it and holding the slight variations of dye lot that read as life rather than as flaw.

What you are buying

This rug sits at the entry point to serious hand-knotted collecting. The same 3-month weaver investment, in the same materials, in a Western dealer showroom would price at two to three times this figure. The piece is not a flooring decision. It is the start of a collection.

The piece in a room

At 2'6" x 12' (76 × 366 cm) the rug behaves as an accent ground. In a foyer, beside a bed, in a dressing room, or under a small reading chair where colour and pattern read at conversational distance. The size suits rooms where the rug should add a focal note rather than carry the entire floor surface.

Conservation

Rotate end-for-end every six months so the foot traffic and the sunlight age the field evenly. Vacuum weekly on the lowest setting with the beater off. Address spills immediately with a clean white cotton cloth and cool water. Schedule a hand-wash with a textile conservator every five years. The rug is built to outlive several rooms. Direct sunlight on the field is acceptable and even helpful, since UV restores the dye depth that filtered indoor light slowly dulls.

Reference

• Medium: hand-knotted wool on cotton foundation
• Dimensions: 76 × 366 cm (2'6" x 12')
• Construction: Persian asymmetric knot
• Knot density: ~180 KPSI
• Total knot count: ~777,600
• Hands: 1 weaver, 3 months
• Pile: 8-10 mm hand-spun wool
• Dye: vegetable (madder, indigo, walnut hull, pomegranate rind)
• Origin: India

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