Simanse Sima-9 Wool Handmade Carpet

Floor weaving on the Indian subcontinent has supplied the carpet trade for more than a century, the workshops trained on the same Persian and Turkish vocabularies that defined the form before they did. The neutral register in this piece sits within that long conversation.

This rug was hand-tufted in India over roughly 5 weeks by a team of two tufters and a single finisher. The wool pile was tufted through a cotton ground one colour separation at a time, the gun working at a controlled tension to keep the loop height even across the field. The latex sealing and scrim laminate were applied after the field was complete and the work cured. The carving step took a finisher about a week with hand shears, cutting the pattern into a low relief that pulls a millimetre or two of shadow into every motif edge. The piece behaves differently in lamp light than in north light.

The composition

The pattern reads in neutral, the field opening into negative space at the edges so the rug breathes against the floor it sits on rather than fighting it. The design is the same in scale and weight as the seating around it; it does not insist on being looked at, but it carries the room when nothing else is in it.

The piece in a room

At size as listed the rug holds the central area of a living room or a primary bedroom. The neutral has enough weight to anchor a seating arrangement without flattening the rest of the palette. Position so the rug extends at least eighteen inches beyond the seating on three sides; the eye reads the negative-space frame as part of the composition.

Care

Weekly vacuuming with suction only. Spot clean with cool water and a white cloth; do not use detergents that contain optical brighteners on wool. The pile sheds for roughly six weeks from new, then settles. Schedule a professional clean every three years to extend the working life of the latex bond.

Reference

• Medium: hand-tufted New Zealand wool, natural latex bonded, cotton scrim backing
• Dimensions: size as listed
• Construction: hand-tufted, hand-carved finish
• Pile: 14 mm
• Hands: 2 tufters and 1 finisher, ~5 weeks
• Backing: cotton scrim over natural latex
• Origin: India

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