Rugsville Tabriz Rust Black Wool Carpet 10' x 14'

Tabriz weaving has been associated with carpet design for so long that the name now functions as a category rather than a place. The defining features are precision drafting, a tight knot, and a layered border that surrounds rather than dominates the field. The Rugsville Tabriz Rust Black follows that grammar at the scale of a serious drawing room carpet, with a saturated rust field and a deep black border anchoring the composition.

Four weavers shared a wide upright loom in northern India for around seven and a half months. The pile is hand-spun wool over a cotton foundation, knotted at the Persian asymmetric structure that Tabriz workshops adopted from court patterns centuries ago. Dyes were drawn from madder root for the rust ground, walnut and oak gall for the black border, and a small quantity of indigo to deepen the floral motifs. Every skein was matured in copper for several weeks before the wool was lowered.

The composition

A continuous rust field carries a dense Herati repeat across its surface, the pattern small enough that it reads as texture from across a room and reveals itself underfoot. The black border is wide and sober, layered with a single ivory guard band, framing the field with the gravity of a charcoal mat around a watercolour. The rust will warm into terracotta over a decade of light, and the black will deepen as the wool oils settle. The carpet does not arrive complete. It arrives ready to start.

What you are buying

A Tabriz pattern carpet of this density and scale, when offered with antique attribution at international auction, sits between four and ten lakh equivalent. This new weaving uses the same fibre, the same density, the same plant dye programme, and is priced against the months of workshop labour rather than against antique scarcity. The carpet appreciates with use rather than depreciating, a property unique to hand-knotted wool at this calibre.

The piece in a room

10' x 14' (305 x 427 cm) is the scale that anchors a long living room with a sectional and a pair of chairs above it, or a formal dining arrangement seating ten to twelve. The rust and black palette suits chalk walls, brass fixtures, and walnut or teak joinery. A leather chesterfield in cognac sits well above the field. Avoid strongly patterned upholstery; the carpet expects to be the graphic centre of the room.

Conservation

Vacuum weekly on suction only, beater bar lifted. Rotate the carpet half a turn each season so window light and footfall distribute evenly across the pile. Blot spills with a clean cotton cloth from the outside in, never scrub. Hand wash by a wool trained conservator every five to seven years. With these habits the carpet runs eighty to a hundred years and outlives its first owners comfortably.

Reference

• Medium: hand-knotted wool on cotton foundation
• Dimensions: 305 x 427 cm (10' x 14')
• Construction: Persian asymmetric knot
• Hands: 4 weavers, ~7.5 months
• Pile: hand-spun wool
• Dye: vegetable (madder, walnut, oak gall, indigo)
• Origin: India

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