The Tibetan knot is a rod-and-cut technique developed for the long-staple highland wool that the dense Persian asymmetric never quite suited. The pile sits looser, the colour reads softer, and the rug accepts contemporary palettes that the harder city traditions resist. What sits in front of you continues that conversation.

2 weavers, 5 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 6' x 9' (183 × 274 cm) in a tan and multi register, made in India.

The composition

The palette is built around tan and multi. The motifs sit in measured intervals across the field, with the border holding the composition rather than competing with it. The wool will lighten in the high-light areas over the next decade and the dyes will deepen in the protected zones, the pattern of slow change every plant-dyed pile carries. The corners will not match exactly, which is the proof that a person rather than a printer made the surface. 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.

The piece in a room

At 6' x 9' (183 × 274 cm) the rug suits a study, a smaller drawing room, or a primary bedroom. The composition pairs with mid-tone walls and warm wood furniture, and rises against off-white walls as a fielded ground. The size also works as the entry rug for a longer hall, with the pattern reading as one walks across it.

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: 183 × 274 cm (6' x 9')
• Construction: Persian asymmetric knot
• Knot density: ~80 KPSI
• Total knot count: ~622,080
• Hands: 2 weavers, 5 months
• Pile: 8-10 mm hand-spun wool
• Origin: India

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