Rugsville Tribal Ikat Sari Silk Hand Knotted Ivory Carpet 4' x 6'

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.

2 weavers shared the loom for 4 months. Around 200 knots per square inch on a cotton foundation. Roughly 692,000 hand-tied knots in total. The pile is recycled sari silk, chosen because it takes plant dye to the depth the cartoon needs without flattening into uniformity. Dye throughout is set with traditional fixing salts and given a final wash to lock the saturation against light.

The composition

Colour reads as ivory and bone. 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

Hand-knotted weaving at this scale is one of the few household objects that appreciates rather than depreciates with use. Workshop pieces of comparable density and fibre carry meaningful premiums at international auction and through Western dealers; the price here reflects direct workshop sourcing rather than an inflated retail mark-up.

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 ivory 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 piece is not flooring; it is the work the room is arranged around.

Conservation

Rotate a half turn each spring and autumn so light and traffic age the pile 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.

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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