A kilogram a metre, which tells you most of what you need to know before you touch it. Cotton, viscose and polyester are worked together in a technically involved construction, and the surface comes out looking like a good carpet that has been walked on for years: dense, slightly flattened in places, with a depth that normally only arrives with wear.
Ground and pile alternate to throw up broad stripes, and the yarn melange means the colour is never one colour, which is why Rubelli reaches for contemporary painting to describe it.
80,000 Martindale, a high figure for a velvet, and BS5852 sources 0 and 1. Four colourways, a 64 cm vertical repeat, 135 cm wide, woven in India.
