Fieldnotes
Eight fields, what each one governs, and which of them will actually constrain the room you are drawing.
A carpet specification is a short document, and most of it is inert. Two or three fields decide whether the floor works in the room. The rest are useful for comparison and for the record. Knowing which is which saves a good deal of time.
What follows is a field-by-field reading, using Fieldmark's own published figures as the worked example. Every pattern in the collection carries a full specification on the site, which is deliberate: a specifier should not have to ask for the numbers before deciding whether a product is worth a conversation.
The first line, and the one that sets the others. Construction tells you how the carpet was made, and in Fieldmark's case it is one of three woven types: Wire Wilton, Axminster or Karaloc. Each has a natural territory. Axminster places every tuft individually and so carries many colors and large elaborate repeats. Wire Wilton carries frames of yarn in the warp and selects between them with an electronic Jacquard, which gives cut, loop and combination pile in one field. Karaloc is Fieldmark's own weave: a close, quiet surface with the textural depth of a Wilton.
Read construction first, because it tells you what the pattern field can do before you look at anything else.
These two travel together and describe the grid the pattern is drawn on. Pitch is how many ends of yarn sit across the width of the goods. Rows is how many rows of tufts fall in each inch of its length. A finer grid resolves finer detail.
Across the Fieldmark collection: Guillo and Hybrid at pitch 9.33 and 9 rows; Mackenzie at pitch 8 and 8 rows; Agate and Stria at pitch 7 and 10 rows; Chantilly, Romney and Cheviot at pitch 5 and 8.6 rows.
The trap is treating higher as better. A coarse grid at a taller pile reads as texture rather than as drawing, which is precisely what some rooms want. If the design has a fine scroll or a tight geometric, ask for it at the finer pitch. If it is tonal and textural, the finer grid buys you nothing you will see.
Pile height is the depth of the surface, and pile type is whether the loop is left standing or cut open. Cut pile reads softer and shows shading and footfall more readily. Loop pile reads tighter and holds its appearance under traffic. Combination cut and loop uses the difference between the two as pattern in its own right.
Fieldmark runs from 0.180″ on Karaloc, through 0.250″ loop on the full-pitch Wiltons, to 0.290″ cut on the Axminsters. Mackenzie carries two heights in one surface: 0.125″ loop against 0.163″ cut.
Height is a hand and a wear decision, not a quality ranking. A lower, denser surface holds its look better in a corridor or on a stair; a taller cut pile gives more underfoot in a room people sit in.
Face weight is the weight of pile yarn in a square yard, quoted in ounces. Fieldmark's range runs from 47 oz/yd² on Stria to 68.2 oz/yd² on Mackenzie.
It is the most quoted figure in the category and the most frequently misread. Face weight is only meaningful alongside pile height and construction, because the same ounce figure at a taller pile means the yarn stands further apart. Read it next to pitch, rows and height, never on its own.
This is the field most likely to change a drawing, and the one most often left off a specification sheet altogether.
Repeat is the size of one full unit of the pattern before it starts again, quoted as width by length. Fieldmark's published repeats span an enormous range: Agate at 78.74″ × 81.97″, Guillo at 36.05″ × 29.81″, Hybrid at 5.14″ × 5″, Mackenzie at 15″.
A repeat over six feet is a room-planning object. It governs where the pattern lands relative to the walls, how much waste the cut plan generates, whether adjacent panels can be matched at a seam, and whether the pattern survives being cut around a hearth or a stair. A five-inch repeat does almost none of that and can be treated much closer to a plain. Between those two extremes there is a threshold, usually somewhere around the size of the room's smallest dimension, past which the pattern begins to dictate the plan rather than sit inside it.
If a manufacturer cannot tell you the repeat, you cannot draw the floor.
Fieldmark's goods run to 12′ on Wire Wilton and Karaloc and to 13′ on Axminster. Width decides where the seams fall, and seam position is a design decision as much as an installation one. In a 14-foot room, a 13-foot width leaves a narrow fill; in a 12-foot room it may not need a seam at all. Check the width against the room's short dimension early, because it can quietly determine which construction is available to you.
A colourway is a named color version of a pattern. Fieldmark's eight patterns carry seventeen colourways at present: Guillo in Taupe and Ash, Hybrid in Silver Dust, Mackenzie in Onyx, Agate in Fawn and Sterling, Stria in River Rock and Charcoal, and Chantilly, Romney and Cheviot each in Tasman Blue, Dusk and Opal.
Color count, the number of distinct pile colors in a pattern, matters when a design is being adapted. The Axminster loom carries up to eight pile colors, which is what makes bespoke color work straightforward on that construction. Ask for the count before commissioning a recolor, because it sets the palette you have to work in.
Fieldmark's fiber content is 100% New Zealand strong wool, a crossbred fiber in the 35 to 38 micron range that is bred for interior textiles rather than for apparel. That single line carries several of the properties a specifier would otherwise have to test for: wool is naturally flame resistant and meets commercial flame-spread classifications without chemical treatment, it absorbs airborne VOCs, it dampens sound, it hides soil, and it sheds no microplastics into the room.
Two fields we will not fill in yet
Test results. Fieldmark is a new maker. Formal certification runs at the next production sampling, and results will be published here with the issuing body and the date as they are issued. Deliveries can be made subject to passing. We would rather say that plainly than print a claim we cannot show you.
Pattern repeat on some colourways. Where the site reads to confirm, the figure is genuinely outstanding with the mill rather than withheld. It will appear when it exists.
Every Fieldmark carpet is woven to order. Nothing is warehoused, and lead times are confirmed at quotation. Standard production runs begin at 700 square yards, though a smaller run can sometimes be scheduled alongside a larger order. Ask early and you will get an honest answer about whether the loom can take it.
Read a specification in that order, and by the fourth line you generally know whether a carpet belongs in the package.