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Regal Knots

Bespoke

A carpet measured to your room, not to a rack

Every one of the 14 workshops we buy from will take a commission. You choose the size, the palette and the pattern family; they spend somewhere between nine and thirty months tying it. Price and date are fixed before the first knot.

What actually happens

Five stages, and you can stop at any point before the loom is strung without owing us anything.

  1. The brief

    Week one

    You tell us the room and we ask a great many questions about it: the light, the floor, what the carpet has to sit under and how the room is actually used. Nothing is chargeable at this stage.

  2. The cartoon

    Weeks two to six

    A designer draws the carpet to scale, by hand, on squared paper — one square per knot. You see it, mark it up, and see it again. It is signed off before anyone dyes a thread.

  3. The dye lot

    Weeks six to ten

    Wool is dyed for your carpet alone, in one lot, so the colour holds across the whole field. We send you the physical skeins. Screens lie about colour; wool does not.

  4. The loom

    Nine to thirty months

    The weaving itself. We photograph the loom monthly and send those to you, so you watch it grow rather than wonder. This is the part that cannot be hurried.

  5. Finishing and delivery

    Final six weeks

    Washing, clipping, and the final shear that brings the pattern up. Then insured shipping, customs, and two of us laying it in your room.

What it costs

Priced by the square metre, by the knot count, and by nothing else

A commission costs what the equivalent finished carpet costs. There is no bespoke surcharge, because the workshop is doing the same work either way — it is simply doing it to your drawing.

Across our current stock, that runs from £250 to £8,150 per square metre. A coarse Moroccan wool piece sits at the bottom; a 900-knot Qum silk sits at the top.

Knot density is the whole story. Doubling the knots roughly quadruples the time at the loom, and time at the loom is what you are paying for.

Worked example, 200 × 300cm

Wool, village weave90–200 KPSI
from £1,4509–12 months
Wool, workshop weave220–300 KPSI
from £2,50014–18 months
Wool with silk highlights400–750 KPSI
from £4,85018–24 months
Pure silk600–900 KPSI
from £7,10024–30 months

Indicative only. Your quote is fixed in writing once the cartoon is signed off, and does not move afterwards.

Start a commission

Nothing is committed by sending this. We reply with options, a price band and a date before anyone touches a loom.

The room, the light it gets, the floor underneath, and any colours you already live with.

We use your details to answer this enquiry and nothing else. No list, no third parties.

Before you ask

Can you match a colour I already have?
Usually. Send us the fabric, the paint chip or the photograph and we will dye against it. Wool takes some colours far better than others — we will tell you honestly when a match will disappoint, rather than discovering it at the end.
What if I do not like it when it arrives?
You will have approved a hand-drawn cartoon and physical dyed wool before weaving started, so genuine surprises are rare. If the finished carpet does not match what you signed off, it is ours and we refund you in full.
Can I commission a copy of an antique?
Yes, and it is some of the best work these workshops do. Send photographs of the original including the back and the selvedges. We will not reproduce a piece still under a living designer's copyright.
Do I pay it all up front?
A third on signing off the cartoon, a third at the halfway photograph, a third on delivery. The first third covers the wool and the dyeing, which we pay the workshop immediately.
How large can you go?
Six metres on the short side is the practical limit of a single loom. Beyond that a carpet must be woven in panels and joined, which we will do but do not recommend for anything that will be walked on.

Still unsure whether a commission is the right call? Look at what is already finished first, or read about the workshops who would be weaving it.