Vintage Patchwork Modern Overdyed Hand Knotted Area Carpet-Cyclamen 11072 6' x 9'

Cyclamen is the colour florists name when they want to describe a deep pink that moves toward magenta without going there entirely. It belongs to a small group of saturated pinks that work on textile rather than on paper, and translating it onto wool through immersion dye demands a careful temperature curve. The Cyclamen patchwork in front of you was finished by a workshop with that experience.

The source panels were originally hand-knotted by village weavers in production across the last several decades. Cutting, washing, shearing, and hand-stitching the panels into the new six-by-nine format took six to eight weeks of finishing work in India. The cyclamen immersion bath unified the panel colours into a single saturated pink field while preserving the original geometries as a quieter under-layer.

The composition

A saturated cyclamen field reads first, with the original village patterns surfacing in close magenta and dropped rose tones. Panel seams are hand-stitched and disappear at room scale. The pile direction varies subtly between panels, which gives the surface a soft sheen under angled light. The colour will warm slightly with use and the under-drawing will read more clearly over time.

What you are buying

Comparable saturated-pink patchwork pieces appear at European galleries at four to eight thousand euros and well-finished examples in this register are unusually rare. This is a contemporary reclamation supplied substantially below dealer levels. The carpet appreciates with use rather than depreciating, which is the durable basis of value in any honest hand-finished floor.

The piece in a room

6' x 9' (183 x 274 cm) holds a primary lounge or a generous bedroom. The cyclamen palette pairs with limewashed white, putty walls, brass, walnut wood, and pale linen. The rug expects to be the colour event in the composition rather than competing with strongly patterned upholstery.

Conservation

Vacuum weekly, suction only. Rotate end-to-end with the change of seasons. Blot spills with absorbent cotton, never rub. A wool conservator should wash the carpet every five to seven years. The piece expects a sixty-to-eighty-year life on this regimen.

Reference

• Medium: reclaimed hand-knotted wool, hand-stitched and immersion overdyed
• Dimensions: 183 x 274 cm (6' x 9')
• Construction: panel reassembly of original village weaving
• Hands: 6-8 weeks of cutting, stitching and finishing
• Pile: 5 mm after shearing
• Origin: India

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