Blue Abstract Hand-Knotted Wool Rug, Rast Series

The two ends of this rug are not the same color: sand beige and cream weigh on one, petrol blue on the other. Between them the surface flows in horizontal bands, with pale gray-blue, sand and ivory running into each other along edges that curl like veins. It looks like marbled paper, or the vein of a cut slab of stone.

01The memory of a region

The design does not come from a traditional family; it comes from a single drawing that belongs to Halıcızade and Mehmethan Özer. With no medallion and no border, the color runs all the way to the edge. Hand-knotted in India from wool, bamboo viscose and cotton.

02The Wool on the surface

Where the bamboo viscose runs it reflects more light than the wool, so the same blue reads in two tones, matte and lustrous. 252 × 352 cm (8'3" × 11'7"), about 8.9 square meters (roughly 95 square feet).

03How many centimeters, which room

In the Rast series a design is woven once or a few times; this size will not be made again. It suits a large bedroom laid crosswise under the bed: with the 352 cm side running across the bed, a 160 cm bed leaves more than ninety centimeters of rug on either side, so the first step in the morning lands on wool rather than bare floor.

04Color that shifts through the day

Keep the petrol-blue end toward the headboard and the dark tone carries the weight of the bed while the sand end opens into the room. Linen bedding and a light oak nightstand sit close in tone to the sand areas, and with colors this close the room stays quiet. There is not a single straight line anywhere on the rug; every band curves as it passes.