THE RICHARD POINTON COLLECTION EXPECT THE EXTRAORDINARY TRIAL AND ERROR.. It's always a pleasure to work with my friends on their Abrash occurs when there are either changes in the colour of carpet revival programmes and I give them my support the wools spun together from different fleeces or, when there because I admire their integrity and love the results. are different dye batches. However, I must confess that what excites me the most and After a little trial and error, we realised that in this antique gives me the greatest satisfaction, are the carpets from my carpet, the beautiful abrash was most likely the result of the own initiatives. spinning and blending of the wool from fleeces of different What a delight it is, after seven or eight months of research shades. And of course, in the dyeing process, any one colour and trial and error, to see and handle the first off-the-loom will take on a darker or lighter hue depending on the original sample of a design that I have put my heart and soul into. tone of the wool. Surprisingly, it has been my experience that it is the simpler With this understanding, the dyeing became simpler; it was designs that are most difficult to faithfully replicate. The piece illustrated is a case in point. The inspiration for what fleeces. However, it took the skills and the patience of the appears to be a rather simple carpet is from the weaving of weavers, who knot by knot, used the dyed wool in such a way Bakhshaish, from the latter half of the 19th Century. just a matter of taking into account the colours of different that the abrash looks as natural as the original. In this regard, this apparently simple carpet is as complex as if it had been Bakhshaish, a small town in the Persian Caucasus, is adorned with a thousand flowers. more-or-less halfway between the cities of Tabriz and Heriz. Both are renowned for their carpet weaving, but the production from the looms of Bakhshaish, though not so well known, is no less worthy of recognition and The beauty of anything isn't necessarily just the thing itself, but also what went into its creation. "Let the beauty we love be what we do". (Rumi) respect. However, what made the weaving of my carpet so difficult for the dye-master and the weavers was, how best to recreate the one obvious thing that gave the original its character and charm - the abrash, the naturally occurring variations of just one tone covering the entire field. ANNA WILLIAMS Oriental Carpet Repairer Instore Sunday from 1pm 3pm for consultations & quotations RICHARD POINTON COLLECTION Oriental Carpets and Collectibles. Established 1987. Open 4 Days: Thursday & Friday 9.30am-4.30pm, Saturday & Sunday 10.00am-4.30pm Showroom & Warehouse: 6 Armidale Street, Petone, Phone: 0800 rugsnz (0800 784 769) or 021 434 972 Website: richardpointon.co.nz THE RICHARD POINTON COLLECTION EXPECT THE EXTRAORDINARY TRIAL AND ERROR.. It's always a pleasure to work with my friends on their Abrash occurs when there are either changes in the colour of carpet revival programmes and I give them my support the wools spun together from different fleeces or, when there because I admire their integrity and love the results. are different dye batches. However, I must confess that what excites me the most and After a little trial and error, we realised that in this antique gives me the greatest satisfaction, are the carpets from my carpet, the beautiful abrash was most likely the result of the own initiatives. spinning and blending of the wool from fleeces of different What a delight it is, after seven or eight months of research shades. And of course, in the dyeing process, any one colour and trial and error, to see and handle the first off-the-loom will take on a darker or lighter hue depending on the original sample of a design that I have put my heart and soul into. tone of the wool. Surprisingly, it has been my experience that it is the simpler With this understanding, the dyeing became simpler; it was designs that are most difficult to faithfully replicate. The piece illustrated is a case in point. The inspiration for what fleeces. However, it took the skills and the patience of the appears to be a rather simple carpet is from the weaving of weavers, who knot by knot, used the dyed wool in such a way Bakhshaish, from the latter half of the 19th Century. just a matter of taking into account the colours of different that the abrash looks as natural as the original. In this regard, this apparently simple carpet is as complex as if it had been Bakhshaish, a small town in the Persian Caucasus, is adorned with a thousand flowers. more-or-less halfway between the cities of Tabriz and Heriz. Both are renowned for their carpet weaving, but the production from the looms of Bakhshaish, though not so well known, is no less worthy of recognition and The beauty of anything isn't necessarily just the thing itself, but also what went into its creation. "Let the beauty we love be what we do". (Rumi) respect. However, what made the weaving of my carpet so difficult for the dye-master and the weavers was, how best to recreate the one obvious thing that gave the original its character and charm - the abrash, the naturally occurring variations of just one tone covering the entire field. ANNA WILLIAMS Oriental Carpet Repairer Instore Sunday from 1pm 3pm for consultations & quotations RICHARD POINTON COLLECTION Oriental Carpets and Collectibles. Established 1987. Open 4 Days: Thursday & Friday 9.30am-4.30pm, Saturday & Sunday 10.00am-4.30pm Showroom & Warehouse: 6 Armidale Street, Petone, Phone: 0800 rugsnz (0800 784 769) or 021 434 972 Website: richardpointon.co.nz