Rugsville Traditional Wool Blue & Red Carpet 9' x 12'

Indigo blue paired with madder red is the deepest, most architectural colour set in the Persian classical tradition. It belongs to the great seventeenth-century carpets of the Safavid court ateliers, and to the Bidjar and Ferahan workshops that worked through the nineteenth century. The two colours hold each other in tension because indigo is a cold absorbent dye and madder is a warm reflective one, and the eye reads the surface as deeper than it is. This rug works inside that tradition.

Three weavers shared the loom for around six months in India. The structure is a Persian asymmetric knot tied through cotton warp and weft, about 2.6 million knots in total. Wool was hand-carded and spun, then dyed in deep indigo vats by a master who keeps the fermentation alive across multiple weeks. The madder ground was prepared separately, matured to a dense red with a slight orange undertone, and laid against the indigo border without intermediary tones.

The composition

A red field carries a central indigo medallion drawn in the architectural style of seventeenth-century court work. Spandrels in indigo anchor the corners. The border is a wide indigo band carrying paired floral palmettes in cream and madder. There is no third primary colour; the entire rug runs on the contrast between blue and red, with cream used only as a small linear element. The composition deepens as the eye stays on it.

What you are buying

Court-style indigo and red carpets at this scale and density move through international rooms in the range of twenty-five to fifty thousand US dollars when sound antique examples surface. This is a new weaving in the same tradition, on cotton foundation, in vegetable-dyed hand-spun wool. The rug functions as a working object on a floor and as an asset that gains rather than loses value as the indigo settles into its mature register.

The piece in a room

9' x 12' (274 x 366 cm) is the scale at which a full court-style composition reads correctly. Place it under a ten-seat dining table or beneath a deep sofa with flanking chairs. The blue and red wake against pale walls and recede into authority against deep walls. Avoid placing strongly patterned upholstery directly above it; the rug expects to be the principal pattern in the room.

Conservation

Rotate twice a year. Vacuum weekly, suction only, beater bar disengaged. Indigo can carry slight residual dye in the first year of use; blot any moisture immediately and address any migration with a conservator within days. Plan a professional hand wash every five to seven years. The rug runs eighty to a hundred years cared for this way.

Reference

• Medium: hand-knotted wool on cotton foundation
• Dimensions: 274 x 366 cm (9' x 12')
• Construction: Persian asymmetric knot
• Hands: 3 weavers, 6 months
• Pile: 10 mm hand-spun wool
• Dye: vegetable (indigo, madder, walnut)
• Origin: India

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