Journal

Notes on weaving

Short essays on the regions, materials and judgement behind the collection — written to make the next carpet you look at more legible.

Connoisseurship · 2 June 2026

Reading a Heriz

Angular medallions, brick reds and wool that outlives its owners — what actually gives a Heriz carpet its character, and how to judge one.

6 min read

Craft · 14 April 2026

Madder, indigo, walnut and weld: why vegetal colour ages into beauty while synthetic colour merely fades.

7 min read

Interiors · 20 February 2026

The most common mistake in placing a carpet is not colour or pattern but size. A working method for getting scale right.

5 min read

Connoisseurship · 18 November 2025

Even wear can be nobler than full pile. On honest surfaces, ethical restoration, and the interventions that quietly destroy value.

6 min read

History · 9 September 2025

From Safavid book covers to village looms: how one compositional idea organised five centuries of weaving.

8 min read

Craft · 1 July 2025

Why the same design can produce two entirely different carpets, and what 'handle' tells you that photographs cannot.

5 min read

Interiors · 12 May 2025

Light, floor, threshold and axis: how architects think about carpets, and what any room can borrow from them.

6 min read