xandex XANX-1 Grey Wool Handmade Carpet 2'3" x 7'6"

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 grey 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 grey 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

The rug suits a primary bedroom under the foot of the bed and the bedside passage, a sitting room arranged around a low coffee table, or a study floor under a single armchair and reading lamp. A grey field reads as architecture and accepts almost any other colour above it. Walnut and oak flooring both suit the grey register; lime-washed walls deepen the read.

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 grey 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: 2'3" x 7'6" (69 × 229 cm)
• 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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