How gorgeous, bright, and smile-inducing is this new, colourful rug from Woven Ground? I spotted it on the Heart Home website, and it was love at first sight. Every time I look at these pictures I can’t stop grinning, they just make me ridiculously happy, and I imagine having the actual rug on the floor would probably make me permanently delirious with joy.
It’s inspired by those retro-style crocheted blankets where you make a selection of ‘granny squares’ in different colours and then join them all together and, I think, is also very much in the vein of traditional bargello tapestry and quilt designs, which had an exceedingly psychedelic renaissance in the 60’s and early 70’s. In fact I tried to make a bargello tapestry cushion cover in this very pattern, but everything ended up lopsided and the project is languishing sadly abandoned.
On top of that, it reminds me a lot of the incredibly groovy, “retro-futuristic” patterns of one of my favourite artists, San Francisco-based collage artist Rex Ray (read about him here), and especially his amazing wallpaper designs that I wrote about here.
Back to this fabulously patterned and colourful rug, though. It’s called Alicia, is available in two sizes, 140 x 200 cm and 170 x 240 cm, and although it’s not on their website yet, the very helpful Avril at Woven Ground’s London Kings Road showroom told me that it’s available to order right now – you can contact them on 020 7348 6957 – and will be in their showroom very shortly too.
We don’t have any floor space left for such a beauty, but it just occurred to me that it would look amazing up on the wall in our kitchen/diner … I’ve been thinking of a very large canvas or similar kind of artwork, but maybe this is what I’ve been waiting for. Just off to measure up now …
Images: via HeartHome
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