Rugsville Trellis Scroll Tile Mocha Handmade Wool Carpet 8' x 10'

The trellis motif survives because it does its work without insisting. A composition that lays a quiet order across the floor and lets the room speak above it. The same logic underpins much of the architectural ornament you encounter without naming, the cast-iron screens and the tile work and the painted ceilings that hold a room without claiming it.

The rug was hand-tufted over five to six weeks by two tufters and a finisher. Wool was pushed through stretched cotton canvas one row at a time with a tufting tool, then sealed at the back with natural latex and a cotton scrim. The final pass was hand shearing to bring the trellis drawing into relief above the mocha field.

The composition

A mocha ground holds the rug. The trellis drawing sits inside it without forcing contrast, so the geometry registers as part of the field rather than printed on top. The colour will warm slightly with use, the way wool always does, and the pattern will read more clearly as the surface settles. Sunlight falling across the rug brings out the secondary tones, and evening lamp light pushes the warmer values forward.

The piece in a room

At 8' x 10' (244 × 305 cm) this is full living-room scale. The rug sits with the front legs of a three-seater sofa on it, two armchairs across, and a coffee table centred. The mocha field carries the seating arrangement above it without competing. Mid-tone walls hold the saturation of the wool; brighter walls push the rug forward, darker walls let it settle into the architecture as a considered ground.

Care

Vacuum weekly with the beater bar disengaged. Every tufted rug loses fibre to a beater bar regardless of its price. Blot spills with a clean cotton cloth, never scrub. Expect light shedding for the first six weeks as loose fibres work themselves out of the pile. Professional dry clean every three years. The latex backing has a service life of fifteen to twenty years; expect to recondition or replace at that point if the surface is still in good order.

Reference

• Medium: hand-tufted wool, latex-bonded, cotton scrim
• Dimensions: 8' x 10' (244 × 305 cm)
• Pile: cropped wool
• Hands: 2 tufters and 1 finisher, five to six weeks
• Origin: India

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