Carpet design as a serious decorative practice was codified across the long stretch of West and Central Asia between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries. The neutral palette in this piece is a contemporary reading of that codified library.

Production took a team of two tufters and a finisher around 5 weeks of bench time on a stretched primary canvas. The tufting gun pushed wool through a stretched cotton primary canvas in one continuous run for each colour. After the field was finished the back was sealed with natural latex and bonded to a cotton scrim, locking the loops in for the working life of the carpet. Finishing was hand work from end to end, a long-shear pass that defined the contour of every pattern element so the field reads three-dimensional under low light and flat under bright midday light. The change is part of how the design is meant to live.

The composition

The neutral field works as a quiet ground for a pattern that reveals itself on approach. Furniture sits on the rug without competing for attention. The colour is built up from two passes of dye on the same wool rather than a single dipped bath, which is why the saturation reads as depth rather than as flat surface.

The piece in a room

size as listed is the working scale for a study, a small living room, or a bedroom with the bed positioned across it so the rug shows on three sides. The neutral carries through both daylight and lamplight, and the cut-pile surface gives the floor a softness that resolves the cooler register of stone or polished concrete underneath.

Care

Vacuum weekly with the beater bar disengaged. Every tufted rug loses fibre to a beater bar regardless of price tier; suction is the right tool. Blot spills with white cotton, never rub. Light shedding is normal for the first six weeks of use as loose pile works itself out of the surface; the body of the rug is unaffected. Schedule a professional dry clean every three to four years to lift the embedded grit.

Reference

• Medium: hand-tufted New Zealand wool, natural latex bonded, cotton scrim backing
• Dimensions: size as listed
• Construction: hand-tufted, hand-carved finish
• Pile: 12 mm
• Hands: 2 tufters and 1 finisher, ~5 weeks
• Backing: cotton scrim over natural latex
• Origin: India

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