Vintage Rug | 290 x 195 cm | Nr. Z-3090

vintage rug

Delivery time	2 days
Origin	Pakistan
Dimensions	290 cm x 195 cm (= 5.66 m²)
Construction	hand-knotted
Material	Pile: wool (hand-spun, natural dyes)
knots	250.000
Edition	one-of-a-kind piece

Origin

Using an elaborate process, we give some of our old Oriental rugs a more modern look. We call these rugs vintage rugs. Vintage rugs are design objects in which traditional craftsmanship meets contemporary interior culture. The new dyeing lends the traditional patterns of Oriental rugs a timeless character. Rugs that are no longer in fashion because of their colouring are given a second life in a more modern guise. Using old rugs as raw material for new products is sustainable and easy on resources.

Material

The technique used to make the materials for the pile of this vintage rug is more than 200 years old. The wool was dyed with natural dyes 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 for every kilo of wool. For a strong yellow that is not too pale, it even takes two kilograms of weld dye per kilo of wool. Spinning the wool is just as time-consuming and labour-intensive. On top of that, fewer and fewer people still know how to spin 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.

The weft and warp threads of this vintage rug are made of cotton. This versatile material is tear-resistant and elastic, which makes it particularly well suited to a hard-wearing foundation weave.