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Edition · Spring

Chalk

Hand-knotted on a single loom · made to order
Rs. 403,200.00Made to order
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Hand-knotted on a single loom — never machine-finishedMade to order · weaving begins on confirmationWorldwide insured shipping · 60-night home trial
Description

A pale chalk-grey field carries an open, wandering vine structure with large dissolved botanical forms in camel-tan, steel-blue, and terracotta-red. The motifs sit far apart from one another, leaving significant ground visible between them. The close-up confirms a low pile, heavily abrash-affected surface where the grey ground shifts between cool stone and warm linen in uneven horizontal bands.

MaterialWool and Silk
ConstructionHand-knotted 
Best forLiving Room, Drawing Room, Dining Room
Made inIndia
Chalk PLATE II — OF VII▸ Chalk
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.

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

Chalk PLATE V — OF VII▸ Chalk
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Chalk PLATE VII — OF VII▸ Chalk
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, 9*12

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.

Chalk · the asked & answered
The motifs in this rug appear sparse and widely spaced. Does the design feel unfinished in a room?

No. The open field is intentional to the design. At floor level, the abrash variation in the grey ground and the dissolved edges of the botanical forms fill the visual space without requiring dense pattern coverage. The effect reads as considered restraint rather than incompleteness.

How does a low pile wool and silk rug perform in a living room with regular foot traffic?

Low pile holds its profile well under daily use and recovers quickly. There is less fiber to compress, so flattening in traffic paths is minimal compared to medium or high pile constructions. Weekly low-suction vacuuming keeps the surface clear. Silk in the motif edges stays intact under normal foot traffic.

This rug has a very pale ground. What floor types and room palettes does it suit best?

The chalk-grey ground works well over light oak, whitewashed wood, or pale stone floors where the rug reads as a continuation of the floor rather than a contrast to it. In rooms with darker floors, the pale ground creates a deliberate separation. Walls in warm white, raw plaster, or greige keep the palette coherent without competing with the rug's own range of tones.

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