Overdyed wool came into the global design vocabulary through a generation of decorators who wanted the texture of an antique floor without the period palette. Greens were among the slowest to enter the format because chlorophyll-derived dye was historically unstable and most workshops avoided the colour. The shift came when synthetic green dyes matured enough to hold across saturated washes on aged wool, and the bath process became reliable. This carpet sits inside that mature green tradition.

Three weavers worked the loom for around four months. The base carpet is hand-knotted wool on a cotton warp and weft at standard density. Once finished, the rug was cut into rectangular panels, restitched, and submerged in a deep emerald-green bath where the immersion time controls the survival of the underlying colours. The pile was sheared to a close eight millimetres so the seam grid remains visible as part of the geometry, and the back was stabilised with a cotton scrim before final dressing.

The composition

Field of deep green carrying the residue of old red borders, ivory grounds, and indigo guard bands as low-contrast under-pattern. Some panels turn forest, some lean toward moss, some hold a faint blue-green where the source wool was already cool. The variation is what gives the rug its painterly surface. Read at distance the rug presents as a single considered green plane; read at close range it presents as an archive of a dozen earlier rugs.

What you are buying

At equivalent Western dealers, hand-knotted overdyed patchwork carpets of this size list at 1,750 to 2,800 GBP without the same density. Here the listing is 94,399 against 3,77,300 MSRP, which puts the per-square-foot economy below that of a comparable European-imported piece. Hand-knotted wool with this construction holds value across decades and improves with foot traffic, which separates it from any tufted or printed equivalent at any price point.

The piece in a room

7' x 10' (213 x 305 cm) anchors a primary living room or fits beneath a six-seat dining table with the leg-clearance the format expects. Deep green sits well against ivory plaster, oak panelling, brass lighting, and any material in the linen-leather-walnut family. Pair with one or two strong patterns at most; the field of the rug is doing the graphic work.

Conservation

Rotate twice a year so daylight wears evenly across panels. Vacuum suction-only, weekly, with the beater bar disengaged. Address spills by blotting flat with a clean cotton cloth, never rubbing across the pile. Plan a wool-conservator hand-wash every five years. With careful handling the rug runs seventy years and continues to deepen across that span.

Reference

• Medium: hand-knotted wool on cotton foundation, overdyed patchwork
• Dimensions: 213 x 305 cm (7' x 10')
• Construction: Turkish symmetric knot
• Hands: 3 weavers, 4 months
• Pile: 8 mm
• Dye: emerald-green overdye on assembled vintage wool
• Origin: India

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