The geometry-first vocabulary has carried carpet design through three of the major aesthetic shifts of the twentieth century: the Bauhaus reduction, the post-war American craft revival, and the contemporary studio practice in textile. The form remains because the constraint forces good design. The piece is built in that broader vocabulary.

The work took 5 weeks at the loom. Two tufters drove the wool through a tensioned canvas with a hand-held tufting gun, building the pattern row by row in a continuous loop. A finisher then sealed the back with natural latex, applied a cotton scrim, and sheared the surface to a uniform pile depth. The borders were bound in cotton tape by hand to hold the edges over decades of use. The rug is offered in a multi register, made in India.

The composition

The palette is built around multi. The motifs sit in measured intervals across the field, with the border holding the composition rather than competing with it. The wool will lighten in the high-light areas over the next decade and the dyes will deepen in the protected zones, the pattern of slow change every plant-dyed pile carries. The corners will not match exactly, which is the proof that a person rather than a printer made the surface. The pattern photographs differently than it reads in person, which is true of every wool surface and one reason rugs of this calibre are ideally seen in the room they will live in before purchase.

The piece in a room

The format here anchors a primary bedroom or a compact living room. The rug sits below a queen bed or in front of a three-seater sofa, with the pattern reading as the field that pulls everything else into relation. Walls in plaster, putty, or warm white hold the saturation, while darker walls let the rug settle into the architecture as a considered ground.

Care

Vacuum weekly with the beater bar disengaged. Every tufted rug loses fibre to a beater bar regardless of price. Blot spills with a clean cotton cloth, never rub. Expect light shedding for the first six weeks of use as loose fibres work themselves out of the pile; the body of the rug is unaffected. Professional dry clean every three years to refresh the surface and maintain the cotton scrim that supports the pile.

Reference

• Medium: hand-tufted wool, latex bonded, cotton scrim
• Dimensions: size as listed above
• Hands: 2 tufters and 1 finisher, ~5 weeks
• Pile: 12 mm
• Origin: India

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