Tepper TEPP-4 Wool Handmade Carpet

The motif vocabulary of this collection comes out of contemporary Indian design studios working with mid-century European geometry as their reference set. The lines are graphic, the colour blocks are clean, the construction is engineered to keep production time inside two months without compromising on the wool weight or the pile density. A drawing takes weeks before it ever reaches the loom.

Indian workshops produced the rug over 4 weeks. A team of two pushed wool yarn through the canvas one motif at a time, working from a chalk-marked back, while a third hand finished the binding and trimmed the pile to depth. The latex coat was applied in a single pour, allowed to cure for forty-eight hours, and laminated to a cotton backing that gives the rug its hand and weight.

The composition

The polychrome carries the field. The motif emerges as a tonal shift rather than a hard-edged graphic, which is the property that lets the rug sit in a composed room without claiming the eye. Up close, the carve work shows in the slight relief between figure and ground; at distance, the surface reads as a single saturated colour event.

The piece in a room

A medium living room with a three-seat sofa and a pair of chairs accepts the piece comfortably. The polychrome ground handles both linen upholstery and leather. A polychrome field anchors a room with otherwise restrained palette. Best with one strong piece of wall art and otherwise restrained surfaces; the rug carries enough visual weight that the room does not need a second graphic event.

Care

Vacuum weekly with the beater bar disengaged; suction alone is enough to lift household soil from the pile. Blot spills with a clean cotton cloth, never rub. Light shedding is normal for the first six weeks as loose fibres clear from the pile, and the body of the rug is unaffected by the process. A professional dry clean every three years preserves the polychrome saturation and lifts ground-in soil that domestic vacuuming cannot reach.

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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