Vintage Patchwork Modern Overdyed Hand Knotted Area Carpet-Greenery 11076 9' x 12'

Greenery as a deliberate design colour is younger than most of the wool that carries it in this carpet. The shade was named the colour of the year by the Pantone studio in 2017, a fresh leaf green pitched between yellow-green and emerald, intended to feel like the underside of a young branch. Translating that contemporary green into a piece with the depth of an antique required a base of older wool, which is why the workshop turns to salvage rather than to new yarn.

The 9' x 12' (274 x 366 cm) field of this carpet is a quilt of patches cut from Anatolian and Persian rugs woven between roughly 1945 and 1985. In India, three weavers spent around four months reassembling the salvaged wool, hand-knotting fresh seam stitches between the squares, and binding the whole composition to a new cotton warp. The reassembled field went into a single immersion bath of fresh leaf-green dye, which sat at slightly different intensities on each patch depending on the original colour underneath.

The composition

Leaf green across the entire field, with the older fibres pulling the dye in different directions. Patches that began life with red grounds now read olive. Patches that began with strong indigo now hold a deep emerald. Patches that started ivory now glow almost lime. Faded medallions and ghost borders surface beneath the colour like a tree-line under spring leaves. The wool itself catches light at differing angles from patch to patch, animating the whole.

What you are buying

Patchwork rugs of this construction are routinely shown by Western interior dealers as collectible textile pieces, with comparable prices running in the four to six thousand pound range. This listing reflects a direct purchase from the Indian workshop tradition rather than a re-sale margin. The fibre carries between forty and eighty years of patina before any new use begins, so the carpet is already older than most of the homes it will enter. Value increases as the patina deepens further.

The piece in a room

Greenery at carpet scale gives a room the cool clarity of a garden in early light. The carpet supports raw timber, white walls, and unfinished brass beautifully. Sits well under a low-slung modern sofa with one or two pieces of antique furniture in the same composition; the carpet bridges the centuries. Avoid placing strongly patterned green upholstery directly above; let the field do the chromatic work alone.

Conservation

Vacuum weekly, beater bar off, in the direction of the low pile. Rotate the carpet a half turn at the start of each summer. Spills lift with prompt blotting; never use a household cleaner on hand-dyed wool. Schedule a wool conservator wash every six years to refresh the dye depth and remove embedded grit. Treated this way the carpet outlasts several rounds of upholstery.

Reference

• Medium: hand-knotted vintage wool patches, leaf-green overdye
• Dimensions: 274 x 366 cm (9' x 12')
• Construction: hand-knotted patchwork, continuous warp
• Hands: 3 weavers, ~4 months
• Pile: low, sheared uniform
• Dye: greenery overdye on aged wool
• Origin: India

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