The visual vocabulary in this piece carries the trace of a dozen generations of workshop refinement, the neutral ground holding a pattern that earlier centuries would have read as familiar even if they would not have recognised the colour.

Production took a team of two tufters and a finisher around 3 weeks of bench time on a stretched primary canvas. Wool was pushed through a stretched cotton primary canvas one row at a time with a hand-held tufting gun, the colour separations followed off a paper cartoon pinned behind the frame. Once the field was complete, the back was sealed with natural latex and laminated to a cotton scrim that locks the tuft loops in place. The final pass was a hand-shear by a single finisher, the pile carved down to relieve the figure above the field by two to three millimetres so the pattern reads at room scale rather than dissolving into noise. The shear marks are visible on close inspection and are the signature of hand finishing.

The composition

A blue ground carrying the design in a slightly raised relief. The wool sits between matte and lustred depending on how the light falls on it; in north light the field reads cool, in evening light it warms toward the deeper end of the palette. The figure work holds at room distance and reveals itself only on approach, the way a good painting does the same thing in a gallery.

The piece in a room

2' × 3' (61 × 91 cm) sits under the front legs of a three-seater sofa with the coffee table fully on the rug, or fully under a queen bed turned across the long axis. The blue answers both painted and panelled walls. Pairs particularly well with low mid-century furniture and with the cleaner profile of contemporary modular seating.

Care

Weekly vacuuming with suction only. Spot clean with cool water and a white cloth; do not use detergents that contain optical brighteners on wool. The pile sheds for roughly six weeks from new, then settles. Schedule a professional clean every three years to extend the working life of the latex bond.

Reference

• Medium: hand-tufted New Zealand wool, natural latex bonded, cotton scrim backing
• Dimensions: 2' × 3' (61 × 91 cm)
• Construction: hand-tufted, hand-carved finish
• Pile: 12 mm
• Hands: 2 tufters and 1 finisher, ~3 weeks
• Backing: cotton scrim over natural latex
• Origin: India

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