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Edition · Spring

Cellground

Hand-knotted on a single loom · made to order
Rs. 119,360.00Made to order
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Hand-knotted on a single loom — never machine-finishedMade to order · weaving begins on confirmationShipping across India and worldwide
Description

Dark charcoal and mid-grey sit together across the full field in a dense, shifting pattern of small off-white squares and rectangular cells. The cells vary in density across the surface, thinning in some zones and concentrating in others, creating horizontal bands of relative darkness and relative openness without formal borders. The blended fibre ground shifts between grey values throughout, so no two areas of the field read as the same tone.

MaterialBlended fibres
ConstructionHand-knotted
Best forLiving Room, Drawing Room, Dining Room
Made inIndia
Cellground PLATE II — OF VII▸ Cellground
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.

Cellground PLATE III — OF VII▸ Cellground
Cellground PLATE IV — OF VII▸ Cellground
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.

Cellground PLATE V — OF VII▸ Cellground
Cellground PLATE VI — OF VII▸ Cellground
Cellground PLATE VII — OF VII▸ Cellground
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

In-stock rugs dispatch in 10–15 business days. Made-to-order pieces take around 11 months on the loom; we confirm your timeline when you order.

Worldwide shipping

We ship across India and to selected countries worldwide.

Returns

Request a return within 3 days of delivery (14 days in the EU and UK). Made-to-order and custom rugs are final sale.

Asked & answered

Questions you'd want to ask.

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

Cellground · the asked & answered
How does the varying cell density across the field affect how the rug wears under furniture and foot traffic?

The density variation means different zones of the surface carry slightly different pile concentrations, but the blended fibre construction distributes compression broadly. Zones with lighter off-white cell density sit closer to a solid dark pile and handle traffic well. Rotating the rug annually prevents any single band from receiving disproportionate wear, keeping the tonal variation reading evenly.

Does this rug work under warm-toned furniture such as walnut or tan leather, or does the dark ground read too cold?

The grey-charcoal ground carries enough tonal variation from the blended fibres to read warmly in context. The lifestyle setting demonstrates this directly: against dark walnut and tan leather, the surface reads as a grounded neutral rather than a cold one. The off-white cells introduce brightness that prevents the dark ground from reading as heavy in a room with warm material tones.

What size anchors a large living room with two sofas facing each other?

The 10x14 works best for a two-sofa arrangement, allowing front legs of both sofas to rest on the rug with the coffee table sitting fully within the field. This keeps both seating pieces visually connected to the floor surface. The 9x12 suits the same configuration in a slightly more contained room, with the arrangement sitting closer to the rug's centre.

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