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Edition · Spring

Lichen

Hand-knotted on a single loom · made to order
Rs. 420,160.00Made 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

Sage-green, dusty rose-pink, warm terracotta-amber, and deep plum-wine move across a pale cream-white ground in broken, stippled masses with no dominant colour holding the field. A thin grey-green diagonal line runs through the upper third, the only mark with any linear character in an otherwise cloudlike composition. The pale ground remains visible throughout, interrupting every colour zone.

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

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

Lichen PLATE V — OF VII▸ Lichen
Lichen PLATE VI — OF VII▸ Lichen
Lichen PLATE VII — OF VII▸ Lichen
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.

Lichen · the asked & answered
With four distinct colours scattered across a pale ground, does this rug show wear unevenly in high-traffic zones?

Wear in hand-knotted rugs follows pile compression rather than colour distribution, so the scattered colour pattern does not affect where wear develops. High-traffic paths show flattening regardless of which colour sits there. Rotating the rug annually redistributes traffic across the field and prevents any single zone from wearing faster than the rest.

How does the sage-green and terracotta-amber palette work with white plaster walls and pale wood floors

The pale cream ground reads closely with white plaster, allowing the four colour zones to carry the room's full colour interest without competing with the walls. Terracotta-amber connects with pale oak; sage-green introduces a botanical note that works with natural linen and dried plant arrangements. The 9x12 suits a single accent chair and sofa arrangement in a room of this material restraint.

Does the scattered cloud-like composition look different when viewed from different positions in the room?

Yes, and this is one of the design's qualities. The silk within the pale ground passages catches at different angles depending on where you stand, so the open cream intervals shift in reflectivity as you move around the room. The colour zones themselves remain consistent, but the surface carries a different quality of light from each viewing position.

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