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Edition · Spring

Ashlar

Hand-knotted on a single loom · made to order

Hand-knotted on a single loom — never machine-finishedMade to order · weaving begins on confirmationWorldwide insured shipping · 60-night home trial

Description

Pale silver-grey fills large rectangular blocks across the full field, each one carrying a dense interior texture of small looped and clustered pile forms. Dark charcoal lines divide the blocks into a horizontal and vertical grid, thin and precise against the pale fill. The close-up pile reveals a high, tactile surface with significant three-dimensional depth; each block reads as a raised, textured mass rather than a flat panel.

MaterialBlended fibres

ConstructionHand-knotted

Best forLiving Room, Drawing Room, Dining Room

Made inIndia

PLATE II — OF VII▸ Ashlar

A note on the dye

Madder root, soaked five days, simmered three.

The red you see in the field is not one red. It is seven dye lots, each pulled at a slightly different hour from the same copper vat,the variation lives only in the wool, never in the recipe.

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On scale

Bring the room into the rug - never the other way around.

A rug is sized to read once, in full, as you walk past it. The longer sizes tell a different story across a whole room.

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End of plates · 7 of 7Read its story

The object label.

Edition · Spring

OriginJaipur, Rajasthan, India

KnotAsymmetric Persian

Knot density168,000 per square metre (approx.)

PileHand-spun wool, vegetable-dyed

Warp & weftCotton

Time on loomEleven months

CareRotate annually · professional clean every 3–5 years

Sizes available8*10

Lead time

Made-to-order pieces ship in 4–14 weeks from confirmation.

Worldwide shipping

Insured, white-glove delivery with climate-controlled crating.

Home trial & returns

Sixty nights at home. Return for any reason.

Asked & answered

Questions you'd want to ask.

Plain answers about the wool, the loom, and what the rug does over years of use.

Ashlar · the asked & answered

Does a high-pile blended fibre rug require different maintenance than a medium-pile rug?

High-pile rugs flatten more visibly under furniture legs and in foot-traffic paths. Use wide furniture coasters to distribute weight from heavy legs across the pile. Vacuum on the lowest suction setting, moving slowly in the direction of the pile. The blended fibres in the high sections recover well with regular vacuuming; rotating the rug every twelve months keeps pile height consistent across the full field.

How does the raised block texture feel underfoot compared to the dividing lines?

The difference is noticeable. The high-pile blocks feel dense and cushioned underfoot, while the compressed charcoal grid lines feel firmer and lower. The transition between them is tactile rather than just visual, which is characteristic of this construction. This makes the rug particularly comfortable in a living room where bare feet are in contact with the surface regularly.

What furniture weight is appropriate for this rug, and should chair and sofa legs be protected?

Standard sofa and chair legs can be used without special protection for occasional placement. For furniture that sits in the same position permanently, wide felt pads or furniture coasters distribute the load across more pile and prevent permanent compression of the high-pile blocks. Avoid very narrow legs on heavy pieces without protection, as these can create lasting impressions in a high pile.

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Ashlar

Madder root, soaked five days, simmered three.

Bring the room into the rug - never the other way around.