Australian Designed
Tretford Rugs
Tessera
Every great composition begins with a single unit. A tile. A thread. A square of pure colour placed beside another. From this humble act of repetition and contrast, something extraordinary emerges. Tessera, the third collection from Markian, turns to the painters who reimagined the visual world from the ground up. It draws on Delaunay, who did not theorise colour but wove it and walked across it; on Albers, whose life’s work was how colours alter one another through sheer proximity; on the childlike geometry of Klee, the radical zero-point of Malevich, and the spiritual abstraction of Kandinsky. These are not decorative gestures. They are philosophies of seeing, and they live again here, underfoot.
To walk across a Tessera rug is to walk across a field of ideas. Each piece is woven from natural Tretford goat hair, carrying within its fibres the same discipline these masters demanded: nothing extraneous, nothing without intention. Every junction of colour is a decision, every edge a deliberate meeting of two certainties. The palette draws on Orphism and the Bauhaus primaries held in tension, rendered in four signature tones with bespoke options available.
Where Eidos invites you to think, Tessera invites you to feel. This is colour as experience. Pattern as presence. Order made tactile, and the radical idea that a floor, too, can be a canvas.
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A leader in the field of handmade rugs, we are proud to be collaborating with Designer Rugs for a range of hand-tufted New Zealand wool and bamboo rugs. Each rug is made to order in Malaysia. Inspired by the originating furniture piece, Ray. Choose from six shapes and nine colourways.
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75% New Zealand wool and 25% bamboo
Hand-tufted rugs are produced by shooting yarn through a tufting gun into a stretched fabric frame, much like a stretched canvas. Each shape and colour is tufted separately, like a colour-by-numbers, and their construction makes them the perfect choice for geometric designs. Hand-tufted rugs are more affordable than hand-knotted rugs, and their durability means they are suitable for commercial applications. Wool Valued for its durability and natural softness, sheep wool has been a staple of rug making for millennia. Its distinctive structure and lanolin content give it a number of important benefits – it is flame retardant, stain repellent, extremely durable and even acts as a natural dehumidifier.
Wool is also a 100% renewable product, making it highly sustainable and eco friendly. We use 75% New Zealand wool in our hand-tufted rugs.
Bamboo has been used in the rugs for a touch of shimmer and shine. The bamboo fibres add dimension, playing wonderfully with light and shifting constantly under the gaze. Bamboo has a lustre similar to silk and is used to emphasise portions of each rug’s design, creating incredible highlights and lowlights. We use 25% bamboo in our hand-tufted rugs
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8-10 weeks depending on volume of order.
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