Petra, a collection of hand-knotted rugs began as a system-led design enquiry in collaboration with Jaipur Rugs. In what ways can deadstock yarn be transformed into valuable surfaces and contribute to the closure of the company’s textile cycle?

One of many approaches was to embrace the dye lot variations that naturally emerge from everyday handling at the dyeing and the weaving stages, through time. It began with an incidental inspiration that came out of my daily hikes up the rocky hills of the Aravalli, near Surana during my stay at the warehouse. Goats grazing across the rugged terrain, the macro textures of the rocks, and the interplay of light is what I carried back with me each day, followed by the inspiring forms of wild mountain goats found across borders while imagining them as petroglyphs in motion. I envisioned rugs that would camouflage when laid onto these very hills and become surfaces that act like fragments of the outdoors when placed indoors.

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Five skilled artisans crafted hand-knotted rugs over three months, each sized 5x8’ with a quality of 64 knots per square inch, translating the surfaces I walked on.​