Moga Persian Tabriz Gold Black Hand Knotted Wool Carpet 2' 6'' x 12'

The composition is built around an all-over lattice. Everything else in the rug works in service of it. The border, the secondary motifs, the colour ratios were all worked back from that single decision before a knot was tied. The result is a piece that reads as one considered field rather than as a collection of decorative parts.

A single weaver worked this piece for four months in India. The pile is hand-spun wool. The foundation is cotton. Every knot tied by feel against the warp, then beaten down with a steel comb before the next row went in. The making is slow because the result is meant to last several lifetimes.

The composition

The drawing favours gold over decoration. Open ground carries most of the surface; the figure work concentrates at the edges and along a single axis. The discipline of the composition is what gives the rug its presence; nothing in the field is there to fill space. The colour holds slight variation knot to knot, which is what reads as warmth across the surface and which no industrial process can reproduce.

What you are buying

Antique pieces in this idiom with comparable density and condition come up at international auction in a price band considerably above this listing when they appear at all. This is a new weaving in the same tradition, on the same kind of loom, at the same density, in the same fibre. The carpet appreciates with use rather than depreciating. There are very few household objects you can say that of at any price.

The piece in a room

2'6" x 12' (76 × 366 cm) is the working scale for a small living room, a study, a guest bedroom, or a dining nook for two to four. It anchors a seating area with the front legs of the sofa landing on the rug and the back legs on the floor. Pairs with both contemporary upholstery and older leather without forcing a register. The rug holds a slow conversation with whatever sits on top of it rather than insisting on a single decorating direction.

Conservation

Rotate seasonally, vacuum weekly with the beater bar off, blot rather than rub when something spills. A conservator-grade wool wash every five to seven years keeps the dye fresh and the foundation clean. The rug answers slow steady care with a long working life and arrives at a patina that no new piece can imitate.

Reference

• Medium: hand-knotted wool on cotton foundation
• Dimensions: 76 × 366 cm (2'6" x 12')
• Construction: Persian asymmetric knot
• Hands: a single weaver, three to four months
• Pile: hand-spun wool
• Origin: India

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