Cream Plain Handwoven Cotton and Viscose Rug, Jura Series

There is no wool in this one at all. It is handwoven in India from cotton and viscose with a small amount of synthetic yarn worked in for wear, in a flat cream that carries a faint moiré where the hand of the weaver changed.

01A question of size

Eight sizes are made, including a 100 × 300 cm (3'3" × 9'10") hall length. The moiré is the only event on the surface, and it is not printed. It comes from small variations in tension as the weaving went along, so it shifts as you move — which is why a plain rug of this kind holds a room instead of vanishing out of it.

02The tone of the ground

Cream sits over dark boards better than it sits over pale ones, where it can go slightly invisible. Against black-stained oak or a dark stone floor it gives the room its light back. Being wool-free is the practical fact about it.

03From ground to pile

Cotton and viscose make a thinner, lighter, cooler rug than wool does — easy to lift, easy to fold, easy to move between a bedroom and a sunroom in April — and they lack wool's spring, so this is a rug you look at rather than one you sink into.

04Coming off the loom

A household that wants no animal fiber underfoot has few good options, and this is one of them. Handwoven in India by hand-weaving technique, not on a mechanical loom. Cotton and viscose with a small quantity of synthetic yarn for wear — no wool. Plain cream, with a faint moiré from variations in weaving tension. Thin and light: simple to lift, fold and move between rooms. Eight sizes, from 80 × 150 cm to 240 × 340 cm, including a 100 × 300 cm runner. It has no wool spring; the pleasure is visual rather than underfoot. Professional cleaning keeps the moiré even. A room that has already said everything it means to say needs a floor that says nothing, and this is that floor.