Ikat is the resist-dye technique that makes the warp threads carry the pattern before the rug is even woven. Translated into a hand-knotted carpet of recycled sari silk, the soft edges and shifting saturations of the original ikat survive into the finished pile. The result is a textile that reads as luminous and slightly imperfect at every angle.

Two-handed work for 4 months by 2 weavers seated together at the beam. Around 200 knots per square inch on a cotton foundation. Roughly 692,000 hand-tied knots in total. The fibre is recycled sari silk, hand-spun, and slightly uneven at the strand, which is what gives the rug its lived patina. The colour was drawn from a workshop palette held over decades, with each batch matched against the master cartoon before the loom was strung.

The composition

Colour reads as deep blue. Ikat geometry softened by the recycled silk fibre, every shape edged with the slight blur the technique is loved for. The colour will not stay still: a few seasons of light will warm the brighter passages and deepen the darker ones, which is the patina the rug is designed to acquire.

What you are buying

What sets a hand-knotted carpet apart from any other furnishing is that it is built to outlast its first owner and gain value while it does so. Comparable workshop weavings in this tradition trade at multiples of the price asked here when they appear at international auction with provenance.

The piece in a room

4' x 6' (122 x 183 cm) works under a coffee table with seating arranged around it, in a primary bedroom as a foot-of-the-bed runner, or as the anchor in a small reading area. The blue palette pairs with rattan, leather, linen upholstery, and wood flooring across the warm spectrum. The proportions also fit a child's bedroom or a smaller dressing area without crowding the floor plan. The rug expects to be looked at, not just walked on.

Conservation

Half-turn rotation each season to even out wear. Weekly vacuuming with the beater off, suction only. For spills, a clean dry cotton towel pressed into the pile, never scrubbed. A professional hand wash every five to six years. Under this regime the rug is a multi-generation object; it does not wear out, it gains patina.

Reference

• Medium: hand-knotted recycled sari silk on cotton foundation
• Dimensions: 4' x 6' (122 x 183 cm)
• Construction: Persian asymmetric knot
• Knot density: ~200 KPSI
• Total knot count: ~692,000
• Hands: 2 weavers, 4 months
• Pile: shorn close, hand-finished
• Origin: India

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