Cream Framed Handwoven Wool and Silk Rug, Pera Series

Cream Framed Handwoven Wool and Silk Rug, Pera Series: a cream field held inside a drawn frame, woven in Türkiye by hand, with silk running through the wool, 163 × 232 cm (5'4" × 7'7"). Pera is the old name for the Beyoğlu side of İstanbul, and the series takes it. A frame pattern gives a rug its edges back.

01Color that shifts through the day

That matters more on a pale ground than a dark one: cream has a way of running into a pale floor until nothing marks where the rug stops, and a drawn border stops it. Inside the frame the field is left comparatively open, which gives the silk in the weave somewhere to show: a pale rug with silk in it changes value as light moves across it instead of staying one flat tone. Woven in Türkiye by hand, in wool and silk together.

02Coming off the loom

The house tags this series artisan, and the operation behind that word is the ordinary one — the knots are tied by hand and the ends are finished by hand, one at a time. At 163 × 232 cm it is a four-seat living-room size, a sofa and a pair of chairs with their legs on it, or the whole of a bedroom floor from door to far wall.

03What Wool does

Cream and silk together mean this is not the rug for an entrance hall. Professional washing. Handwoven in Türkiye; wool pile with silk worked into it. Cream field inside a drawn frame border. 163 × 232 cm (5'4" × 7'7") — a sofa and two chairs, or the floor of a bedroom. Silk changes value across the field as the light moves. The border is what stops a pale rug from vanishing into a pale floor. Not an entrance rug; cream and silk both record traffic. Professional washing. A single piece in this size. The pattern is the kind that stops being noticed after a month and would be missed immediately if it went.