Rugsville Vegetable dyes Classic Styles Wool Carpet 6' x 9'

By the late nineteenth century, the workshops at Sultanabad in western Iran had quietly redrawn the rules of the drawing-room carpet. A Swiss buying office had pushed local masters to thin out the dense palmette repeats of classical Persia and let the field breathe. The Classic Styles Sultanabad in front of you carries that lineage forward, woven for collectors who want a vegetable-dyed wool floor that was alive before they bought it and will keep moving for the next eighty years.

Two to three weavers shared the loom in India for around four months. Roughly one and a half million Persian-asymmetric knots, every one tied by feel against a vertical beam. The pile is New Zealand wool, chosen because it accepts madder, indigo, walnut hull, and oak gall to the depth this palette requires.

The composition

An open ivory ground holds vine work in soft rust and faded indigo. The drawing is loose enough to let the wool show through, tight enough to read as a coherent field at six feet by nine. Vegetable colour is never quite stable. Over a decade, the rust will warm toward terracotta, the indigo will darken at the edges, and the ivory will move to bone.

What you are buying

Pre-1920 Sultanabads in equivalent condition appear at Christie's, Sotheby's, and Rippon Boswell in the range of twenty to forty thousand US dollars when they surface at all. This is a new weaving in the same tradition, on the same kind of loom, in the same fibre. It appreciates with use rather than depreciating. Few objects you place underfoot hold that property at any price.

The piece in a room

6' x 9' (183 x 274 cm) is the classic seating-area scale. The carpet sits comfortably under a three-piece sofa arrangement or a six-seat dining set, with the palette throwing warmth back into mid-tone walls and oak floors. Cream linen, walnut, brass, and unframed canvas all read well above it.

Conservation

Rotate the carpet a half turn each spring and autumn so light and footfall age the wool evenly. Vacuum weekly with suction only, beater bar disengaged. Blot spills with a clean cotton cloth rather than rubbing. A wool-trained conservator should hand-wash the rug every five to seven years. With this regimen the piece runs eighty to a hundred years and outlives its first owner.

Reference

• Medium: hand-knotted New Zealand wool on cotton foundation
• Dimensions: 183 x 274 cm (6' x 9')
• Construction: Persian asymmetric knot
• Hands: 2-3 weavers, around 4 months
• Pile: 9 mm
• Dye: vegetable (madder, indigo, oak gall, walnut hull)
• Origin: India

Free shipping anywhere in India. Cash on delivery available. 7-day exchange. The carpet ships crated for safe handling and re-use during storage.