Hand-knotted Kashmir Oriental Rug in Silk, 310 × 82 cm

Hand-knotted from India: a Kashmir rug measuring 310 × 82 cm. Kashmir pieces are woven in northern India; the field is usually a close floral rather than an open ground. At 500,000-599,999 knots/sqm the pile holds around 1.4 million knots in total — a medium-fine weave that wears well underfoot. Pile 100% silk;, warp 100% cotton. A silk pile shifts tone as you move past it — the same field reads light from one side of the room and dark from the other. The proportion (3.78:1) is a runner’s. It suits a hallway or the length of a kitchen, not the middle of a room. Proportion 3.78:1. One of a kind: hand-knotted rugs are not made in editions, so this exact piece exists once.