Nursery floors collect milk, crumbs and crawling knees. The beige Lia is a wool rug you can wash in the machine, which makes sense in a nursery or a busy family bedroom.

• 100% wool, handwoven in India
• Machine washable
• Short pile in plain beige
• Rectangular, for the living room, bedroom, dining room or kids' room
• Suitable for underfloor heating

Beige keeps a room light and goes with painted cots, pine or white bedding. Living rooms suit it too, where it fits in with jaloom's Living Room Rugs under a coffee table. At a dining table, choose it large enough that the chairs stay on it when pulled back, using our help on choosing the right size. Wool fibres are naturally crimped and hold pockets of air. Its 100% wool pile puts it among our Wool Rugs, and since it is woven by hand, its size can differ slightly from what is stated.

Our cleaning advice for wool starts with blotting, using a light cloth from the edge of a spill inwards and without rubbing. Loose fibres in the first weeks settle down as you vacuum. Should a thread stick up on the beige Lia, snip it level with scissors rather than pulling it.