The pattern in front of you traces its lineage to a long arc of design between the Safavid court and the Anglo-American collector market of the 1880s. What began as palace commissions for kings became, by the late nineteenth century, the floor of every serious drawing room from Boston to Bombay. This green 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.

3 weavers, 8 months of patient work, approximately 1,555,200 asymmetric knots tied row by row against a vertical beam. The wool is highland-grade with a long staple length, chosen because shorter fibres flatten under traffic while longer ones stand and recover. After weaving the rug was washed in cold river water and laid in the sun for a final cure that locks the dye and softens the hand.

The composition

The palette is anchored in green 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 green 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

Shipping included to any Indian address. Cash on delivery available. 7-day exchange.