Rugsville Tribal Ikat Sari Silk Hand Knotted Multi Carpet 3' x 5'

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.

Tied by a single pair of hands over 4 months. Around 180 knots per square inch on a cotton foundation. Roughly 386,000 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

The palette: ivory field carrying scattered tones of madder, indigo, walnut, and bone. Soft-edged ikat motifs ranged across the field, the colour drift between them carrying that unmistakable resist-dye luminosity. The pile will compact slightly under traffic in the first season and the colour will pull together; the rug looks more itself with use, not less.

What you are buying

A hand-knotted carpet in this idiom and at this density is priced as a function of weaver-months and fibre, not of brand. Comparable workshop pieces in the Ikat Sari tradition reach Western dealer pricing of three to five times this figure when sized and dyed to the same standard. The rug appreciates with use rather than depreciating; there is no other object you put on a floor with that property.

The piece in a room

3' x 5' (91 x 152 cm) is the working size for a kitchen run, a small entry, a study under a desk, or a bedside. The multi ground sits well under furniture in oak, teak, walnut, or warm pine. The scale is small enough to layer over a larger neutral rug if the room benefits from a second tone, and large enough to anchor a single piece of furniture on its own. A piece at this scale settles the architecture of the room around itself.

Conservation

The carpet wants two simple things: regular rotation, and gentle cleaning. Turn it half a revolution every six months, vacuum once a week with the beater bar lifted, blot spills with a clean cotton cloth. Have it hand-washed by a wool conservator at five-year intervals. The rug is built to outlive its first owner and reward the next.

Reference

• Medium: hand-knotted recycled sari silk on cotton foundation
• Dimensions: 3' x 5' (91 x 152 cm)
• Construction: Persian asymmetric knot
• Knot density: ~180 KPSI
• Total knot count: ~386,000
• Hands: 1 weaver, 4 months
• Pile: shorn close, hand-finished
• Origin: India

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