Beige Abstract Machine-Woven Viscose Rug, Mermer Series

For the first few weeks this rug sheds; after that it settles and is easy to keep. The Beige Abstract Machine-Woven Viscose Rug from the Mermer series is dense viscose with acrylic worked into it, cream and beige with mink running through, made in Türkiye in fifteen sizes, up to 300 × 400 cm (9'10" × 13'1").

The pattern is abstract and marbled — veins and drifts of tone rather than a motif — which is what makes it neutral enough to sit under furniture of any color. Viscose is spun from cellulose, so it takes light the way silk does: the surface is bright from one side of a room and flat from the other, and that shift is most of what there is to look at. The tone falls between cream and beige, warm enough not to go cold under a north window.

Machine-woven at a 100-reed density, which is where both the weight and the sheen come from, with acrylic blended into the viscose for wear. Once the first few weeks are past it holds very little lint or dust and a vacuum keeps it; for a deep clean it goes to a professional washer.

• Machine-woven in Türkiye.
• Dense viscose with acrylic.
• Abstract marbled drifts in cream, beige and mink.
• 100-reed density — the weight and the shine both come from it.
• Sheds for the first few weeks, then settles.
• Fifteen sizes, 80 × 150 cm (2'7" × 4'11") to 300 × 400 cm (9'10" × 13'1"), including 100 × 600 cm runners.
• Professional washing.

Made for Halıcızade and sold nowhere else, it does the job of a plain floor covering with more light in it.