Rugsville Ziegler Wool Red Navy Carpet 4' x 6'

Knotted wool is the oldest continuously practiced fine art in textile. Plain weaves came first, but the discipline of tying individual knots row by row to build a representational field has been kept alive by working studios for a thousand years. The piece in front of you is a contemporary entry in that long line.

The carpet was put up on a vertical loom in northern India. 2 weavers shared the work over roughly 4 months, tying knots by feel against the warp without lifting the cartoon between rows. Around 0.4 million asymmetric knots in total, with wool pile on a cotton foundation. The red register is built up across multiple dye lots so the eye reads variation rather than a single flat field, and the pile was clipped and washed by hand once the rug came off the loom.

The composition

A composition built around a deep red field with the slow burn of madder-dyed wool. The pattern develops at a measured pace and the colour holds its register across the field. The colour will deepen by a quarter step over the first three years of use, the way wool dye always does as the surface oxidises and the fibre relaxes into the field.

What you are buying

A democratic entry to hand-knotted wool work. The construction is real, the wool is real, and the rug will outlive most of the furniture it sits beneath. Treat it as a long-term piece rather than as seasonal decor.

The piece in a room

At 4' × 6' (122 × 183 cm) the rug holds an entry vestibule, a small study, the foot of a bed, or a single armchair beside a window. It is the right scale to introduce the red palette into a room without forcing the rest of the furnishing to follow it. The pattern resolves close in and recedes at distance, which keeps the rug useful in rooms whose proportions are not generous. Reads against limewashed walls, plaster finishes, and stone-coloured paint in the cooler half of the spectrum.

Conservation

Vacuum on suction only, weekly. Rotate the rug a half turn each spring and autumn to keep the wear even. Address spills by blotting outward from the centre. A professional hand wash every five years preserves the dye and protects the foundation. Stored properly, the carpet outlives its first owners.

Reference

• Medium: hand-knotted wool on cotton foundation
• Dimensions: 122 × 183 cm (4' × 6')
• Construction: asymmetric (Persian) knot
• Knot density: ~120 KPSI
• Total knot count: ~414,720
• Hands: 2 weavers, 4 months on loom
• Pile: ~10 mm wool
• Dye: workshop blend, light-fast
• Origin: India

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