Kvadrat
Slope
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Overview
- Designed by
- Hella Jongerius
- Production time
- 6 – 9 weeks
- Category
- Kvadrat rugs
- Pattern
- Stripe
- Composition
- 100% tibetan wool
- Width
- 80 - 450 cm (2\' 7 ½\" - 14\' 9\")
- Length
- 80 - 1,000 cm (2\' 7 ½\" - 32\' 9 ½\")
- Weight
- 2,000 g/㎡ (6.55 oz/sq ft)
- Height
- 10 mm (½\")
- Size of border
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- Length of fringes
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Slope is a high quality Tibetan wool rug characterised by a dynamic colour bleed at the sides. In an earthy palette ranging from brown and golden to autumnal red, dove gray, and green, the design is created using a process described by Hella Jongerius as a ‘tye-dye woven construction’.
This complex ikat-technique involves dyeing tightly wrapped bundles of yarn by hand so that the pattern is created in the yarn itself. Dyed yarns are then meticulously aligned on a loom by a master weaver in order to render Slope’s precisely blended quality.
The irregularities created by this handcrafted approach are perfectly balanced in the design by a clear graphic stripe across the ecru base. Finished with a single festoon edge on the top and bottom of the rug and a double festoon on both sides, Slope is a contemporary take on a traditional flatwoven kelim. It is ideal for both the home and light traffic contract spaces.