Loop

The Craft

A continuous looping border of this kind is one of the more meditative tasks in hand tufting, the same curved gesture, repeated hundreds of times across the full perimeter of the rug. The artisans who work on the Loop must maintain the regularity of each oval form while navigating the corners, where the rhythm shifts and the hand must adjust without breaking the continuity of the line. In a piece where the border is the entire statement, there is nowhere for inconsistency to hide. What you see in the finished rug is the product of sustained, patient attention the kind that India's craft tradition has always known how to hold.