Rugsville Jacob Persian Rust Rust Vegetable Dyes Hand Knotted Wool Carpet 6' x 9'

Jacob is the in-house design name for a soft-tonal Persian rust ground composition that an Indian workshop developed in the early 2000s as a smaller-scale companion to the larger Sultanabad pieces. The 6 x 9 size is the working scale for an apartment drawing room or a primary bedroom, with enough surface to anchor furniture but small enough to read as a single composition rather than as a field. The colour palette is held in the rust register, with the accents working in tonal proximity rather than in sharp contrast.

Two to three weavers shared the vertical loom for close to four months. Nearly six months at the vertical beam, with four weavers sharing the long stretches. Madder root for the rust, walnut hull for the deeper outline, oak gall for the shadow, and pomegranate rind for the lighter cream details were each matured in copper vessels for two to three weeks. After clipping the rug saw four days of sun and a long mineral wash to settle the saturation into antique register.

The composition

A rust field carrying a measured palmette and vine repeat in deeper tones of the same value. The principal accents are walnut and a faint indigo outline. The border is a single guard band held narrow so the field carries the design. The two rust tones sit close enough that the rug reads as a single warm composition from across the room. From two metres the vine resolves into individual leaves and rosettes traveling diagonal.

What you are buying

Antique Persian carpets at 6 x 9 in this register reach twenty to forty-five thousand US dollars at international auction. This rug shares the loom architecture, the Persian knot, the long-staple wool, and the plant-dye discipline of those antiques. At one and a half lac it sits at a fraction of the auction comparable and appreciates with use rather than depreciating.

The piece in a room

6' x 9' (183 x 274 cm) sits cleanly under a primary seating arrangement with the front legs of the sofa landing on the wool, or under a queen bed extending past the foot. The rust palette pairs with walnut, brass, oxblood leather, terracotta plaster, and chalk walls. South-light rooms warm the rust further.

Conservation

Rotate the rug a half turn each spring and autumn. Vacuum weekly, suction only. Blot spills at once with cotton, never rub. Hand-wash by a trained wool conservator every five to six years. With this care the rug crosses eight decades in regular use.

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, ~4 months
• Pile: hand-spun wool
• Dye: vegetable (madder, walnut, oak gall, pomegranate)
• Origin: India

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