Yellow Plain Power-Loomed Wool Rug, Heritage Series

The color is honey rather than lemon: saturated, a little brown in it, the yellow of a jar held up to a window. Yellow Plain Power-Loomed Wool Rug, a Heritage-series piece: wool on the face, cotton in the foundation, woven in workshops around Uşak in western Anatolia. This one is 130 × 190 cm — 4'3" by 6'3" in imperial.

Yellow is bought for what it does to a room in winter. This one is deep enough not to look thin under a lamp and dark enough not to glare in full sun, which is the narrow band a floor color has to stay inside. Because the surface is plain, the color arrives all at once with no pattern to break it — that is the point, and it is also why a small size is the right size. On pale boards it is warmth; on dark boards it is light.

The loom ties the knots and the finishing is done by hand, as with every Heritage piece. The pile is wool, laid over a cotton foundation. A word that belongs on any strong color: it will fade where hard sun falls on it day after day, so a room with a bare south window all summer is not where to put it. Cleaning is professional.

• Power-loomed in workshops near Uşak; the loom ties the knots and the finishing is done by hand.
• Wool surface on a cotton foundation.
• A honey yellow, saturated and slightly brown, rather than a lemon.
• 130 × 190 cm, or 4'3" × 6'3".
• Strong color fades where direct sun falls on it every day.
• Professional washing.

A yellow floor is a decision the whole room has to live with, and in a north-facing one it is the right decision.