This selection brings together plain rugs for every room, woven, tufted or knotted by hand in wool, viscose, bamboo silk or jute. Whether you are furnishing a living room, a bedroom or a hallway, our catalogue groups ninety-seven models by colour, size and material for quick comparison, alongside our rugs by style for softer or bolder patterns.
Plain rugs account for forty-eight of the models in this catalogue, and most are worked in natural fibres rather than synthetic ones. Wool appears in fifty-two models across the wider collection, viscose and bamboo silk each count twenty-seven, while jute and cowhide remain rarer choices for texture and contrast. Grey dominates the colour range with twenty-six models, followed by beige, white, brown, red and blue in smaller numbers.
| Material | Number of models |
|---|---|
| Wool | 52 |
| Viscose | 27 |
| Bamboo silk | 27 |
| Synthetic fibres | 22 |
| Jute | 4 |
| Cowhide | 2 |
The Akka rug illustrates the viscose family well, with a grey 200x300 cm piece hand-tufted for a dense, even pile: Akka rug.
For a warmer feel underfoot, the Wooly rug uses New Zealand wool across a 240x300 cm grey format: Wooly rug.
A three-seater sofa measures roughly 200 to 220 cm wide, and a coffee table sits close to 120 x 60 cm. The front feet of the sofa usually rest on the rug, with twenty to forty centimetres of floor left visible around the edges. On the site, the 170x240 cm and 200x300 cm formats cover most living rooms, with one hundred and eighty-two and one hundred and five models respectively.
| Size | Number of models |
|---|---|
| 170x240 | 182 |
| 200x300 | 105 |
| 300x400 | 36 |
| 140x200 | 65 |
Plain rugs sit alongside other families in this catalogue. Shoppers drawn to texture rather than colour often look next at vintage rugs, which bring a worn, faded effect.
Those who prefer structured lines move towards geometric rugs.
Softer interiors suit floral rugs instead.
The Sena rug bridges both worlds, a hand-knotted bamboo silk and jute piece in brown and beige at 140x200 cm: Sena rug.
Technique changes how a plain rug behaves. Forty-eight models in this catalogue are hand-woven, twenty-eight hand-tufted and twenty-one hand-knotted. A flat, hand-woven construction suits a dining room, while a tufted velvet pile gives depth to a living room. Shaggy wool, such as the Baipal rug in brown at 60x120 cm, combines relief with a soft lambswool composition: Baipal rug.
Large plain rugs for the living room, or a smaller plain wool rug for a reading corner, both depend on the same three questions: size, material, construction. This catalogue answers all three before you reach the product page.
There is no fixed rule. A rug a shade darker than the surrounding flooring tends to ground the furniture, while a lighter tone opens up a smaller room. In this catalogue, grey and beige plain rugs work either way, since they sit close to most flooring tones used in Belgian and French homes.
A thin, uneven pile and a material described vaguely rather than named precisely are the usual signs. A hand-tufted or hand-knotted plain rug, with a stated composition and pile height, reads as considered rather than disposable, whatever its colour.
The front feet of the sofa generally rest on the rug, with the back feet off it, and twenty to forty centimetres of floor left visible around the edges. A 200x300 cm or 170x240 cm plain rug covers this arrangement in most living rooms.
Look for a catalogue that states the construction, the material and the pile height for each rug rather than a general description. This selection lists hand-woven, hand-tufted and hand-knotted plain rugs in wool, viscose, bamboo silk and jute, with sizes from 140x200 cm upward.
