Rugsville Tabriz Hunting Rust Gold Carpet 5' x 8'

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 you are looking at is the contemporary chapter of that tradition.

The loom carried 2 weavers for 4 months of continuous work. Each row of knots was pressed with a steel comb, the pile sheared row by row to keep the surface flat. The cotton foundation was warped under tension calculated so the rug lays flat without curling at the edges. The piece is offered at 5' x 8' (152 × 244 cm) in a gold and rust register, made in India.

The composition

The palette is built around gold and rust. The geometry reads as a single composed surface rather than a stack of repeating motifs. Long-staple wool gives the pile a slow lustre that deepens once the rug has settled into a room and the foot traffic has begun to polish the high points. The colour shifts very slightly between dye lots within the same field, the abrash that connoisseurs read as the signature of plant pigment rather than synthetic. The pattern photographs differently than it reads in person, which is true of every wool surface and one reason rugs of this calibre are ideally seen in the room they will live in before purchase.

What you are buying

Hand-knotted wool in this density is increasingly rare at this price point. The Indian workshops that still keep the weave alive are running on margins that have not moved in two decades, while the equivalent antique at a Western dealer trades at three to four times this number. The rug appreciates with use rather than depreciating, the property no machine production can claim.

The piece in a room

5' x 8' (152 × 244 cm) suits a study, a guest bedroom, or a dining nook for four. The rug grounds a small composition without overwhelming it, and the pattern reads from above when the dining chairs are pulled out. Pair with mid-tone walls, simple wooden furniture, and a single piece of art that responds to one of the colours in the field.

Conservation

Rotate a half turn each spring and autumn so light and traffic age the surface evenly. Vacuum weekly with the beater bar disengaged, suction only. Blot spills with a clean cotton cloth, never rub. Hand-wash by a wool-trained conservator every five to seven years. With this care, the rug runs eighty to a hundred years and outlives its first owners. Storage between uses should be flat or rolled around a tube, never folded, with a layer of unbleached cotton between the pile and any other surface.

Reference

• Medium: hand-knotted wool on cotton foundation
• Dimensions: 152 × 244 cm (5' x 8')
• Construction: Persian asymmetric knot
• Knot density: ~180 KPSI
• Total knot count: ~1.0 million
• Hands: 2 weavers, 4 months
• Pile: 8-10 mm hand-spun wool
• Dye: vegetable (madder, indigo, walnut hull, pomegranate rind)
• Origin: India

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