The vocabulary of Persian medallion design was codified centuries ago in the court ateliers of Safavid Isfahan and Tabriz, and every contemporary weaving in this lineage carries that DNA. Drawings were prepared by master designers, then handed to weaving rooms where the patterns were translated knot by knot into wool. This beige wool carpet draws from the open-field Ziegler revival of the 1880s, reinterpreted on a vertical loom in India by hands that have inherited the technique through generations.

The piece took 8 months on the loom with 3 weavers working in shifts. Roughly 1,555,200 knots in total. Wool was hand-carded, hand-spun, and dyed in copper vats with a vegetable bath of madder root, indigo leaf, walnut hull, and pomegranate rind before the warp was strung. Each colour was matured for two to three weeks in the bath so the pigment took to the fibre uniformly without surface staining.

The composition

The palette is anchored in beige with subtle counter-tones that come forward at different times of day. There is no flat colour anywhere on the rug; every block is built from yarn that varies fibre by fibre, which is why hand-knotted wool ages with such grace. Under morning daylight the rug presents its cool register; under evening lamplight the warm undertones pull forward and the room re-reads.

What you are buying

An entry point to collecting hand-knotted wool work from the Indian looms. Comparable density and dye discipline at Western dealer counters opens at significantly higher prices once import, retail markup, and provenance documentation are layered in. The rug will outlast the room it is bought for.

The piece in a room

size as listed () sits well beneath a sofa-and-two-chair grouping or a queen bed with the lower two-thirds of the frame on the wool. The piece organises a room without taking it over. The beige reads warm under incandescent light and cools slightly under daylight, so the rug presents two faces across the day.

Conservation

Spin a half turn twice a year so the pile ages evenly under sun and foot traffic. Vacuum weekly without the beater bar. Treat any spill within minutes by blotting straight down. Schedule a conservator's wash every five years to lift accumulated soil from the foundation. The rug becomes more itself with each passing decade.

Reference

• Medium: hand-knotted wool on cotton foundation
• Dimensions: size as listed
• Construction: Persian asymmetric knot
• Pile: hand-spun wool
• Dye: vegetable
• Origin: India

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