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Reweaving Worn Pile on an Ivory Field
Wear on an ivory ground is the least forgiving repair there is. A dark field hides a slight mismatch; an ivory one puts it under a spotlight, and ivory is never one colour — it shifts across the rug as the original wool took the dye.
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The damage
A patch of the field had worn down to the foundation, with the surrounding pile thinned and the drawing broken across the middle of a flower. Basting threads had been run through the area to stop it spreading.
What we did
We cleared the damaged remnants and rebuilt the foundation where it had gone, then reknotted the area following the original floral drawing so the stems and petals join up correctly at every edge of the repair. The ivory ground was matched across several tones rather than one, then the new pile was clipped down to the height of the pile around it.
The motif is continuous and the repaired patch sits at the same height and sheen as the field around it.
- Service
- Pile reweaving and wear repair
- Material
- Silk pile on a silk foundation
- Damage
- Pile worn to foundation on an ivory ground
- Technique
- Knot-by-knot reweaving with multi-tone dye matching
- Workshop
- Muscat, Oman
Send us a photo of the damage and we will tell you what can be done and what it costs. Rug Road, Muscat.
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