Rugsville Vegetable dyes Classic Styles Wool Carpet 2'6" x 16

The decorative vocabulary of this rug draws on a century-long exchange between the village looms of West Asia and the design studios of the European and American post-war interior. The neutral palette belongs to the contemporary end of that arc.

A single hand worked the piece for 5 months at the vertical loom. Approximately 1.0 million knots in total, every one tied by hand at the loom. 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. Vegetable dyes were prepared from madder, indigo, weld, and tannin sources, the wool fermenting in the vat over hours rather than dipped under the synthetic short-cycle the trade volume relies on.

The composition

The neutral of the ground sits behind a layered lattice that reveals more on approach than at distance. 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

₹43,899 is the democratic entry point to hand-knotted collecting, a tier the workshop produces for buyers who want serious hand-tied work without the auction-grade premium. The labour content alone, distributed across the bench time on the loom, anchors the figure.

The piece in a room

2'6" × 16' (76 × 488 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

Half-turn rotation twice a year. Suction-only vacuuming, weekly. White-cotton blotting on any spill, never rubbing. A wool-trained conservator should hand-wash the rug every five years to keep the dye registers fresh. With this discipline the carpet runs a century in continuous household use.

Reference

• Medium: hand-knotted New Zealand wool on cotton foundation
• Dimensions: 2'6" × 16' (76 × 488 cm)
• Construction: asymmetric knot
• Knot density: ~180 KPSI
• Total knot count: ~1.0 million
• Hands: 1 weaver, 5 months
• Pile: 9 mm hand-spun wool
• Dye: vegetable (madder, indigo, walnut, weld)
• Origin: India

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