Rugsville Traditional Heriz Ivory & Red Wool Carpet 9' x 12'

Heriz weaving holds a singular place in the Persian tradition. The district sits at high altitude, the wool runs heavy and lustrous because of the sheep's diet, and the looms are kept upright in stone village houses rather than in court workshops. The drawing follows from those constraints. Geometric, stepped, with bold blocks of saturated colour and a medallion that anchors the composition rather than dissolving into vine work. The pattern in this rug descends directly from the late nineteenth-century Heriz vocabulary.

Four weavers worked the loom for nearly seven months. The pile is hand-spun wool on a cotton warp, knotted by hand row by row using the Persian asymmetric knot. Around 3.5 million knots in total. Madder root supplies the deep red used in the borders and corner spandrels. Indigo provides the dark navy in the medallion accents. The ivory field is undyed wool, washed in soft river water before the loom is strung. Each batch of wool is dyed separately and the small variations between lots produce the slow tonal movement across the field.

The composition

A stepped diamond medallion in deep red and indigo sits at the centre of an ivory ground. Corner spandrels echo the medallion in mirror, with hooked geometric infill in red. The border is layered: a narrow ivory guard, then a main band of palmette repeats in red and indigo, then a second guard in soft cream. The ivory ground will warm with age into a soft bone tone, the red will settle from new-knot brightness into the deeper madder red of antique Heriz, and the indigo will deepen by another half-shade.

What you are buying

Antique Heriz carpets at this scale and condition sell at international auction in the $30,000 to $80,000 range. Restored examples on Western retail floors run higher. This is a contemporary hand-knotted weaving in the same construction tradition, on the same kind of loom, drawn from the same source vocabulary, in hand-spun wool on cotton. The price reflects four weaver-months times three plus material, not the age premium of secondary-market pieces. Hand-knotted Heriz wool appreciates rather than depreciates with use.

The piece in a room

9' x 12' (274 x 366 cm) is the canonical drawing-room scale. The rug expects a full sectional or a ten-seater dining table set above the field rather than only on it. The ivory and red palette anchors rooms with cream or chalk walls and warm wood floors. It also reads beautifully against deep teal or forest green walls, where the red borders sing forward and the ivory ground glows at low light.

Conservation

Rotate the rug a half turn each spring and autumn. Vacuum weekly with suction only, beater bar off. Blot spills immediately with a dry cotton cloth, then a barely damp one if needed. A wool-trained conservator should hand-wash every five to seven years. With this care the piece runs eighty to a hundred years.

Reference

• Medium: hand-knotted wool on cotton foundation
• Dimensions: 274 x 366 cm (9' x 12')
• Construction: Persian asymmetric knot
• Total knot count: ~3.5 million
• Hands: 3-4 weavers, ~7 months
• Pile: hand-spun wool
• Dye: vegetable (madder, indigo)
• Origin: India

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