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As You Like it The Custom Made Rug
Formulation
Conceptualizing the design and creating the moodboard
Material Selection, Color Selection, Sample Production
Creation
Weave the carpet in accordance with the confirmed scheme.
Delivery
Logistics and after care services
We can recreate a piece from its existing collection in any size, shape and color, as well as add or remove elements, in order to fully realize your vision.
A Houseoon custom project typically starts with design development. The client may propose their own ideas, or may use a Houseoon collection, or they may simply have a colour palette and genre in mind and leave the rest to the Houseoon design team. Houseoon offers 50+ different material choices, including wool, silk, cashmere, flax and cotton. The standard pom box contains 500 colour choices.
During the design development process, custom handmade samples are generally prepared for the client’s review and approval, based on which, the order is placed. Houseoon typically produces 1,000 samples per month.
Samples offer clients the opportunity to see and feel the precise aesthetic of the custom product they are creating. Texture, density, softness and colours are among the many traits that can be experienced through the sampling process.
The first step in the production of a Houseoon Rug is to enlarge the design to actual size and create a full-size template. The design is mapped onto large acetate sheets by laser plotting, with the design outline traced as a line of tiny perforations.
Once the template is prepared, it is attached to a large vertically stretched canvas, and the pattern outline is transferred to the canvas by brushing ink onto the acetate, which seeps through the holes. Then an artist finishes the pattern on the canvas by hand.
Once the inked canvas and dyed yarn preparation stages are complete, the carpet is created by skilled artisans with many years of training in the hand-tufting process. The canvas is stretched vertically, and the artisans use special hand-tufting guns designed byHouseoon to apply the yarns to the canvas, with each colour applied individually in turn.
While the design outlines on the canvas provide an overall guide, the artisan relies on experience and carefully-structured training to ensure the correct pile height, direction, cut or loop. In addition, many fine details depend on the artisan’s hand-to-eye coordination and artistic interpretation. The more complex designs require immense skill, with only a small proportion of the tufters qualified to perform this work.
Artisans on the finishing floor start by finely hand-shearing the carpet’s surface to give it smooth, consistent finish. Many orders feature a complex texture with varying pile heights along with special carving, sculpting or embossing effects.
The most skilled finishing artisans, with years of experience, perform these intricate operations with hand shears and scissors. A final inspection takes place to verify the dimensions, design execution, aesthetic and all technical parameters such as weight and pile height.
Day of arrival! Our team will agree a convenient delivery date with you for Front Door Delivery by courier.
At Houseoon, we make it easy to design and create a custom rug that’s tailored to your Pattern, style. With endless options for colors, designs, and sizes, we ensure that your rug is as unique as your space. Contact us today to start crafting your one-of-a-kind rug!