Varazze Hand Tufted Rug

About this rug

This hand-tufted rug has a 100% wool face in soft sage gray-green, drawn with a fine ivory grid of narrow bars set in offset rows, like stacked tile with pale grout. The drawing is loose on purpose, so the lines wobble and shift at every row. The grid runs edge to edge with no border and no fringe, finished by a narrow sage edge. The bars are dense cut pile and the ivory lines are rows of small loops set a touch lower, so it feels soft underfoot with a fine ridge. It is 0.51 in thick with a medium pile. Made in India, it comes in sizes from an 18" sample to 12' × 15', plus a 3' × 10' runner, custom sizes and rounds. It suits a calm modern, Scandinavian or Japandi living room or bedroom, and a dining room at 8' × 10' and up. The colorway is named olive, but it reads as a soft sage, lighter than olive and grayer from across a room; the 18" sample shows it in your own light. The 5' × 8' size is really 5' × 7'6". Care is professional rug cleaning only; it is not washable, so blot spills right away. New wool sheds at first. The plain cloth back has no grip, so use a rug pad, and measure the gap under any nearby door. It is not made for high traffic, the looped lines can catch claws, and the 8' × 10' weighs about 82 lb.