Egyptian Hand Knotted Abstract Runner by Karim Rashid

A topographic map of nowhere, nine feet of it, with a designer's signature at the foot.

Karim Rashid designed this hand knotted abstract runner, made in Egypt, North Africa, ca. 2005, in wool. Long, narrow runners were made to carry a line through a hallway or across a room, and Rashid's approach, leaning on Egypt's established hand-knotting craft, treats one as a graphic drawing in pile. Fine dark lines run across a warm cream ground, gathering and spreading in a rhythm of soft swells. His looping signature appears at the lower edge. Just over nine feet long and thirty inches across.

The hallway has been promoted.