The villages around Heriz in northwest Iran developed a bold, large-scale geometric reading of classical Persian medallion design, woven on cotton foundations heavy enough to handle a generation of traffic.

Two hands worked the loom across 3 months of bench time. Approximately 622K knots in total, every one tied by hand at the loom. Fine New Zealand fleece runs through the rug. Lower-grade fibre will pull and felt under traffic; this grade carries the design through decades of household use without losing surface integrity. The dyes were taken from madder root, indigo, walnut hull, and pomegranate skin, each bath matured in copper vessels for a fortnight before the wool was lowered.

The composition

A ivory and beige ground holds a vine and palmette repeat that opens at the centre and closes toward the borders. The colour will settle differently in the lit areas and the shaded ones. Rotating the rug at the seasons keeps the ageing even.

What you are buying

At £9,999 this is a working entry point into hand-knotted collecting, a tier where the labour cost itself, set against the months a weaver spent at the loom, makes the price unrepeatable.

The piece in a room

4' × 6' (122 × 183 cm) is an accent piece, sized for an entryway, a reading corner, the area at the foot of a bed, or the floor between two facing chairs. The ivory and beige concentrates the eye in a small footprint.

Conservation

Conservation discipline for a rug of this density is straightforward: rotate twice yearly, vacuum on suction only, blot any liquid before it sets, and hand-wash through a wool-trained conservator once every five years. The rug carries through a century in domestic use under that schedule.

Reference

• Medium: hand-knotted New Zealand wool on cotton foundation
• Dimensions: 4' × 6' (122 × 183 cm)
• Construction: asymmetric knot
• Knot density: ~180 KPSI
• Total knot count: ~622K
• Hands: 2 weavers, 3 months
• Pile: 12 mm wool, low-twist plied yarn
• Dye: vegetable (madder, indigo, walnut, weld)
• Origin: India

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