Tepper TEPP-1 Wool Handmade Carpet

The pattern in this rug came out of a contemporary design studio working with traditional Indian colour theory in modern geometry. The drawing took weeks before a single thread of wool reached the canvas; the construction is built to honour that drawing. The result sits in the lineage of mid-century textile work without quoting any single source directly.

Two tufters and a finisher worked the rug over 4 weeks in India. The wool was gun-tufted into a stretched cotton primary backing, then sealed at the reverse with natural latex and bonded to a cotton scrim. The pile was sheared by hand with long blades to bring the polychrome field to a uniform plane, and a final pass with shears carved the motif a few millimetres clear of the ground so the pattern reads in relief at room scale.

The composition

The geometry is restrained. A single motif repeats across the field at a measured interval, and the polychrome ground carries the rhythm without competing with it. The pile was carved in a second pass, which gives the surface a tactile quality that flat-cut tufting does not have.

The piece in a room

Bedroom or sitting room scale. The polychrome field pairs with oak floors and warm walls, with brass and matte black hardware both. A polychrome field anchors a room with otherwise restrained palette. Underfoot it has the warmth and density of a deeper-pile rug; visually it has the geometry of a contemporary studio piece.

Care

Weekly suction vacuuming. Spills lift with cotton and cool water if attended to within the first hour. Expect mild shedding for the first month of use as loose fibres work themselves out of the pile. A professional rug cleaning every three years keeps the polychrome register at its full saturation and refreshes the pile lay. Avoid soaking the rug; the latex backing prefers surface cleaning to deep wet work.

Reference

• Medium: hand-tufted wool, latex bonded, cotton scrim backing
• Dimensions: size as listed
• Pile: 12 mm
• Hands: 2 tufters and 1 finisher, about 4 weeks
• Wool weight: roughly 2.4 kg per square metre
• Origin: India

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