{"product_id":"the-wound-and-the-loom-hand-knotted-rug","title":"Lapis Lazuli: The Wound and the Loom Hand-knotted Rug","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLapis has travelled from northern Afghanistan for more than six thousand years - through Mesopotamia to the tombs of Egypt - carrying more politics than pigment. Here, that blue becomes wool, hand-knotted by the weavers of Aqcha, where colour, labour and trade continue to shape one another.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Wound and the Loom\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e follows \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eLapis Lazuli: The Wound and the Archive\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(2025)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, which held the same blue in stone. Where that work was cut and seamed in copper, this one is knotted. The rupture at its centre opens into a single void, allowing the wall to become part of the work- an aperture rather than a background. Ochre lines cross the surface like sutures, holding together what has been fragmented.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt is a threshold- an edge that withholds revelation and keeps absence open.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eHand-knotted Ghazni wool. Limited edition of 8.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ishkar-explore","offers":[{"title":"200cm x 300cm","offer_id":56950824763767,"sku":"IS2C3700","price":13000.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Returnable Sample - 60cm x 90cm","offer_id":56950824796535,"sku":"ISRC3701","price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0318\/4839\/8907\/files\/ISHKAR_Meherunnisa_edit_small_12e8f44b-e368-4e6d-86e3-851f5cbe0bff.jpg?v=1793031048","url":"https:\/\/www.ishkar.com\/products\/the-wound-and-the-loom-hand-knotted-rug","provider":"ISHKAR","version":"1.0","type":"link"}