The pattern in front of you sits in the long tradition of hand-tied rug design. A weaver works from a drawn cartoon, ties each knot by hand against the warp, and builds a single coherent composition over months of repetitive, attentive labour. There is no shortcut to the finish.

3 weavers shared the loom for five to six months. The pile is hand-spun wool on a cotton foundation, knotted at roughly 120 KPSI. Around 933,120 hand-tied knots, every one against a vertical loom. The colour was prepared in small batches and the wool was lowered into the dye before being lifted, dried, and wound onto the warp. The cartoon was drawn at full scale and pinned behind the warp, with the finishing pass done by hand shears to lift the drawing.

The composition

The composition reads in red and black first, with the supporting palette holding everything in balance. The wool takes plant dye to a saturation that synthetic colour cannot match without going flat. Across the years the field will move toward the soft, lived-in register that gives older carpets their dignity. Each border element is drawn slightly differently from the next because the weaver works from the cartoon and from feel, not from a stamping machine.

What you are buying

An entry point into collecting hand-tied wool work. Every knot was placed by hand, the fibre is real wool on a cotton foundation, and the rug will outlive any printed or machine-woven alternative at the same price. It rewards use and softens into the patina that printed rug can only imitate.

The piece in a room

6' × 9' (183 × 274 cm). The proportions suit a study or reading room, where a single armchair, a side table, and a floor lamp let the rug do most of the work. The composition holds the room without requiring a great deal of furniture above it. The red and black palette pairs with walnut, oak, and warm stone floors, and sits comfortably with linen, leather, and brass. Direct sunlight from a window helps the dyes hold their depth.

Conservation

Rotate the rug a half turn each spring and autumn so light and traffic age the field evenly. Vacuum weekly with the beater bar disengaged. Blot any spill with a clean cotton cloth, never rub the pile. Hand-wash by a wool-trained conservator every five to seven years. Treated this way, the rug runs eighty to a hundred years and outlives its first owners.

Reference

• Medium: hand-knotted wool on cotton foundation
• Dimensions: 6' × 9' (183 × 274 cm)
• Construction: Persian asymmetric knot
• Knot density: ~120 KPSI
• Hands: 3 weavers, five to six months
• Pile: 8 to 12 mm hand-spun wool
• Dye: vegetable and chrome blend, small-batch
• Origin: India

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