Straight Loom | 420 x 311 cm | Nr. Z-3068

Plain Straight Loom, cream white with all-over pattern (fine, delicate)

Origin	India
Dimensions	420 cm x 311 cm (= 13.062 m²)
Construction	hand-looped
Material	Pile: wool (hand-spun, natural dyes) Weft & Warp: cotton
knots per m²2	160.000
Pile height	10mm
Year of manufacture	2024
Colour	Cream white, Beige
Edition	one-of-a-kind piece

Origin

With the design of this hand-looped rug, simplicity and a focus on the essentials mattered most to us. The result is a modern, clean-lined design that works beautifully in contemporary interiors. Despite its cool, pared-back look, this rug makes any room feel more homely and welcoming.

Pattern

The pile is a single shade of beige. The plain design is understated, yet it can also set a wonderful decorative accent. The monochrome look of this rug fits in beautifully with any surroundings.

This Straight Loom has enormous character. The intense, richly detailed pattern all but hypnotises the viewer. The repeating elements in the central field of this Straight Loom rug have no specific centre (a so-called repeat pattern). The recurring pattern feels calming without ever becoming dull. Rugs with this repeat pattern are also described as all-over patterned.

The surface of this Straight Loom has a mottled look. The shifts in tone and the light-and-dark shading of the pile yarn make the colours shimmer and keep the rug forgiving when it comes to dirt. These so-called colour shifts, known as abrash, give the rug a livelier look. The mottling comes about because the wool of this Straight Loom was hand-spun. During dyeing, the natural dyes are absorbed to differing degrees.

Material

The technique used to make the materials for the pile of this Straight Loom is over 200 years old. The wool was dyed with natural colours and spun by hand. Dyeing with natural or plant dyes is more complicated, more expensive and more time-consuming than dyeing with chemical colours. For a luminous red, for example, you need around one kilo of ground madder root as dyestuff per kilo of wool. For a strong yellow that isn't too pale you even need two kilograms of weld dye per kilo of wool. Spinning the wool is also time-consuming and labour-intensive. What is more, fewer and fewer people still master spinning wool by hand.

But the effort is worth it: dyeing with natural colours allows the high-quality wool to keep its natural oil content. Wool that has been dyed with natural colours and spun by hand creates fascinating, shimmering patterns. The charm of hand-spun wool, with its slight irregularities and natural shades, comes into its own as a contrast in modern interiors, but equally in rooms furnished in a more traditional or country style.