Arts and Crafts Carpets | Arts and Crafts Rugs

SIZE*	COST	SIZE	COST
2x3	$ 210	2’6” x 6	$ 525
3x5	$ 525	2’6”x 8	$ 700
4x6	$ 840	2’6” x 10	$ 875
5x7	$1,225	2’6” x 12	$ 1,050
6x9	$1,890	CLOSEOUT RUGS 50% OFF NON-CLOSEOUT "SECONDS" 25-75% OFF
8x10	$2,800
9x12	$3,780
10x14	$4,900

* Due to the nature of handmade rugs, sizes may vary several inches.

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Shipping costs average $25-$75 per rug, based on weight of rug and distance shipped.

DESIGNS

Archibold Knox Designs: During the last decade of the 19th Century, there was a great revival of Celtic decorative arts within the broader context of the English Arts and Crafts movement. This revival involved painters, poets, designers, and ceramic artists. Archibald Knox designed three carpets in 1903 for the Silver Studio that followed this theme. The popular colors of this trend were: Ochre to gold, brick to red brown, black-green, bronze-green, and blue green. These bold graphic designs were often mixed with other Arts and Crafts design ideas such as the finely detailed, intricate work of William Morris and Henry Dearle. The complete look however, was one of natural colors in harmony with the room and its furnishings. View these designs in the Arts & Crafts Gallery by looking for the following stock numbers.

PC-1A The Wiltshire
PC-3A The Grafton
PC-26A The Bromley

William Morris, Charles Voysey, Gavin Morton Designs: These three men and others that worked as outside contractors for Liberty’s of London, The Silver Studio, and numerous other less famous design firms influenced this group of designs. These firms usually hired designers for individual projects to create a line of fabrics or custom design a carpet for a particular application. A list of these free-lancers today would read like a veritable “who’s who” of the British Arts and Crafts movement. The color palettes all relate to the conceptual framework of the Arts and Crafts movement that relied on bringing the natural world indoors. America’s “well to do” were buying these carpets through the marketing efforts of Gustav Stickley, as well as several high profile department stores such as Wannamaker’s of Philadelphia and Marshall Fields of Chicago. View these designs in the Arts & Crafts Gallery by looking for the following stock numbers.

PC-4A The Stephanotis Flower
PC-5B,C The Chrysanthemum
PC-6A The Wyndham
PC-7A,B The Oak Park
PC-8A The Voysey Border
PC-9A The Duleek
PC-10A The Donnemara
PC-11B The Thistle
PC-15A,B The Hammersmith
PC-17A The Redcar
PC-18B The Trumpet Flower
PC-22A The Fintona
PC-23A-E The Lasenby
PC-25A The Hampton
PC-27A The Darvel
PC-28A The Templeton

Prairie Style Designs: The Prairie Style movement developed in the American mid-west with its epicenter in Chicago. The architect Frank Lloyd Wright and several of his colleagues such as Louis Sullivan, Walter Griffin, and Marion Mahoney developed the idea which focused on straight lines, low houses, and open floor plans. Landscaping techniques continued this theme outside the confines of the structure to create a more expansive living space. The use of primary colors in the Prairie Style is more reserved, with greater emphasis on neutral colors and soft greens. View these designs in the Arts & Crafts Gallery by looking for the following stock numbers.

PC-21A, B The Ginkgo
PC-29A, B The Ginkgo Border
PC-31A, B The Prairie Border
PC-33A The Prairie I

OUR PRODUCTION PROCESS

Our carpets are hand knotted in northern India. They are produced on upright wooden looms that reflect a handcraft dating back more than 1,000 years. The foundation of the carpet is comprised of the warp (or fringe) and weft. These two cotton strings placed at right angles to one another provide the woven matrix onto which the wool yarn is knotted. Row upon row of knots is tied until the carpet is finished. A typical 8x10 carpet will have upwards of 575,000 hand-tied knots.

About Our Wool: All our carpets are woven with 100% New Zealand Wool. This raw wool is then cleaned, carded, and spun into yarn. The spinning process is accomplished in either one of two ways. Machine spinning is just what the name implies. Yarn is produced from the loose wool on a machine that twists the yarn to a consistent diameter. The end result is a carpet that portrays even, non-variegated colors due to the consistency of the yarn diameter. Designs with this "look" are PC-7A, 7B, 6A, 15A, and 17A. The other method of yarn spinning is the old fashioned Hand Spun process. This results in an uneven inconsistent yarn diameter that gives the finished carpet a more textured "nubby" appearance that closely resembles the look of the original Donegal carpets of more than a century ago.

About Our Dyes: All of our carpets use Swiss Chrome dyes that are color fast and consistent from dye lot to dye lot. Much is said about the beauty of natural vegetal dyes and in fact they can be wonderful in one of a kind carpets that have had some time for the colors to mellow and soften. Consistent color however is not possible from one rug to the next. In a continuity program such as ours, we must be able to rely on constant color values for each design and throughout the available size range. This has the added benefit of allowing different designs some measure of coordination when the same colors are being employed.

Knot Density and Weave Quality: Knot density (knots per square inch) is a direct reflection of design complexity. Open patterns with large-scale designs usually require no more than 50-80 Knots/inch to produce a quality made carpet. The more complex a design becomes, the more knots per inch that are required to weave the carpet. "Quality" is a term that embodies many things, such as materials used, execution of design, use and placement of colors. We wanted our carpets to capture the look of the Period Arts & Crafts originals but have a longevity cycle of 75-100 years. The original Donegal carpets made in England and Ireland during the late 19th century were only 15-36 knots per inch. As a result, most of those had not survived to the late 20th century.