Rugsville Vegetable dyes Classic Styles Wool Carpet 2'6" x 12'

The carpet trade has run in continuous evolution between the workshops of West Asia and the European drawing room since the late seventeenth century, each generation editing what the last one left. The piece in front of you is the current chapter.

One weaver carried the loom across 4 months of bench time. The piece carries about 778K hand-tied knots, set one at a time against the warp. The pile is New Zealand fleece, washed and combed to a long, even staple before spinning, which is why the colour reads with the depth of an oil paint rather than a flat synthetic dye job. The colour was built up in the slow plant-dye discipline: madder boiled for the warm range, indigo fermented for the cool, walnut hull for the brown register, each cycle ageing in copper vats for days before the fibre touched the bath.

The composition

The composition runs in neutral across the field with corner work that turns the eye back inward. The dye registers will move with light and traffic. A vegetable-dyed pile is not a finished surface; it is a starting point that the next twenty years complete.

What you are buying

At ₹35,599 this is a working entry point into hand-knotted collecting, a tier where the labour cost itself, set against the months a weaver spent at the loom, makes the price unrepeatable.

The piece in a room

2'6" × 12' (76 × 366 cm) is the working scale for a study, a smaller seating area, a bedroom with the rug under the bed turned ninety degrees so it shows on three sides. The neutral answers warm timber as readily as it answers stone or polished concrete.

Conservation

Rotation at the change of seasons keeps the wear even. Vacuum on suction only. Blot any liquid immediately with white cotton. The rug needs a wool-trained hand wash every five to seven years and no other intervention. Eighty to a hundred years of life is realistic at this density.

Reference

• Medium: hand-knotted New Zealand wool on cotton foundation
• Dimensions: 2'6" × 12' (76 × 366 cm)
• Construction: asymmetric knot
• Knot density: ~180 KPSI
• Total knot count: ~778K
• Hands: 1 weaver, 4 months
• Pile: 12 mm wool, low-twist plied yarn
• Dye: vegetable (madder, indigo, walnut, weld)
• Origin: India

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