While the toast browns, you stand at the worktop on the grey Gabbeh Uni runner instead of cold tiles. Grey suits a kitchen.

• 100% wool pile
• Wool backing
• Hand-woven in India
• Short pile, runner shape
• Suitable for underfloor heating

Wool fibres are crimped by nature, and the air held in those bends gives the grey runner its springy step. Being pure wool, it is one of jaloom's wool rugs, hand-woven in India, so allow for slight differences in length. In a bedroom it works as well as in a kitchen, and as a hallway runner it lines a passage, with our sizing tips to help you match the length to each spot.

Rug care tips for the grey runner start with airing, so beat it from the back now and then and let it breathe. Never tug at a stray thread. Trim it with scissors instead. Dented by a chair, the grey wool pile usually rises again once lightly dampened.