Best Handmade Wool Braided Rugs

For choosing the colors for the rug, select the rug’s colors from the colors in the room itself. For example, from wall paint color, draperies, floors, and furniture. The carpet should repeat one or more of these essential colors. 

A few colors in variations in value (light and dark) and intensity(dull and bright) are wise choices for the rug. The number of colors should be varied, and one color should dominate.

Usually, it is best to use one color or variation throughout the carpet. About half the material should be this color. The other half can be about 35% of a second color and 15% of an accent color. A right proportion of a two-color scheme is about 60% of the dominating color and 40% of the second one.

Braided wool rugs or other fibers should not only lie flat but should look flat—the way the colors put together to influence the appearance of flatness. Avoid sharp contrasts and large amounts of bright colors.

Another way to make the rug “stay on the floor” is to repeat one strand of the same color in every braid throughout the area rug. Make some sample braids to see how well colors tones combine and to see the various twists that it uses in the whole rug.