The sari silk yarn that produced this rug began as worn and discarded silk saris, opened, sorted, and recarded into a single fibre that holds every colour the saris once held. The result is a yarn no synthetic process can replicate, with a chromatic depth that comes from many lifetimes of cloth.

The pile is hand-knotted recycled sari silk on a cotton foundation. 1 weaver shared the loom for 2-4 months, working at roughly 200 knots per square inch. That gives a finished count of around 172 thousand hand-tied knots. The recycled silk yarn carried into the loom every colour the original saris held. No two carded batches are alike. That is the source of the chromatic depth the surface returns under any kind of light.

The composition

The pile shifts in colour from one inch to the next because the underlying yarn was never uniform to begin with. The composition is not a designed pattern so much as a controlled accident, with the ikat structure giving the field its order. The dominant tones run to blue, multi-colour.

What you are buying

An accessible point of entry into a hand-knotted rug of real workshop discipline. The construction is the same as on the larger pieces in the same lineage; the price reflects only the smaller area of pile. The rug is meant to be used and conserved rather than displayed and protected.

The piece in a room

2' x 3' (61 x 91 cm) is the working scale for an entry, a bedside, or beneath a side chair. The piece reads as a small contained composition rather than a flooring element. The blue tones sit well against lime-washed plaster, raw oak, and warm metal.

Conservation

Light handling is the discipline. Suction vacuum, beater bar off. Half-turn rotation each spring and autumn. A professional hand wash on a five-year cycle. Blot spills, work from the edge inward. The rug is built to outlast a domestic life cycle if it is given that quiet attention.

Reference

• Medium: hand-knotted silk on cotton foundation
• Dimensions: 2' x 3' (61 x 91 cm)
• Construction: hand-tied asymmetric knot
• Knot density: ~200 KPSI
• Total knot count: ~172k
• Hands: 1 weaver, 2-4 months
• Pile: 10 mm, hand-spun silk
• Dye: native to recovered sari fibre
• Origin: India

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