Hand-Spun Wool and Natural Dyes: Why Handmade Rugs Last

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Unlike machine-spun yarn, hand-spun wool is never perfectly even — and it is exactly this natural irregularity that, after vegetal dyeing, gives a rug its depth of color and the shimmering effect known as abrash.

In Arsin's dye workshop every color code has its own recipe, and the dyed fibers are matched against the master sample before weaving begins, so the Tehran designers' pattern settles onto the loom precisely.