SAMUGHéO|rug

Produced by SARTAPP – Samughéo (Sardinia, Italy)

2024

This carpet, with its coordinated bedside rugs, is inspired by the geometric design of the traditional saddlebag from the Sardinian village of Samughéo. In not too distant times, until less than a century ago, when in every village on the island one family out of three owned a weaving loom and provided for their own needs independently, each village developed its own distinctive textile pattern and the men, in fields, recognized their mutual origins from the design of the saddlebags they carried on their shoulders or on the backs of their horses or donkeys.                                                                                                                         

Samughéo's typical design, consisting of a chessboard alternating with bands of elongated squares, was made in wool and cotton, strictly in black and white, and woven with a plain weave. When transposed into a carpet, the yarn becomes all wool, the weaving is the typical Sardinian "a pibiònes" one, and two color variations are introduced; the regular grid of the traditional pattern gradually thins out towards the central part of the artefact to give rise to geometries which, although very different from the original, do not alter its recognizability in any way.                                                                                                                                 

Carpet: 300x200 cm – Bedside rug: 170x100 cm