10'1" x 26'3" Indian Oushak Rug | Sage Green All Over Floral | Oversize Gallery Runner

This is a genuinely unusual piece: a hand-knotted wool Oushak measuring 10'1" x 26'3", long enough to run the length of a gallery hall or a great room and still wide enough to hold furniture on both sides. It is brand new and has never been used, with a full 3/8" wool pile, a cotton foundation, and flat, even selvages on all 4 sides. Because of the length, it belongs with the oversize rugs rather than with standard hallway runners, and a piece of this weight ships free to all 50 states. Every rug we sell arrives with a certificate of authenticity confirming that it is hand-knotted, along with the material, origin and measurements recorded on this page.

Design and Motifs

The field carries a classic Oushak all over design, built from large angular palmettes and broad open rosettes linked by a thin trailing vine that wanders the full 26'3" without ever repeating in an obvious block. Around the central motifs sit serrated leaves, small budding sprays and the loose, slightly drifting drawing that separates Oushak work from the tight symmetry of a city floral rug. The main border is a wide ivory band of scrolling vine and flat open blossoms, framed by two narrow guard stripes of small rosettes and hooked leaf forms in taupe and soft green. Notice in the close-up photographs how the outlines are drawn in dark brown rather than black, which keeps the pattern legible without hardening it, and how the corners of the border are resolved cleanly at all 4 turns.

A Sage Green Field with Cream, Tan and Gold Accents

The main color is a soft sage green, cool and slightly grey in the light, closer to celadon than to a saturated forest tone, and it reads as a quiet backdrop rather than a color statement. Against it the flowerheads are worked in cream, ivory, warm beige and tan, with several rosettes picked out in a pale gold and others in a faded peach that shades toward soft pink at the petal tips. Dark brown appears only in the leaves and the outlining, which gives the field just enough weight to stop it from floating. The ivory main border is the lightest element in the rug and frames the green field the way a mat frames a print, while the taupe guard stripes bridge the two. The overall effect is a low-contrast, neutral palette that sits comfortably with oak, walnut, linen, plaster and grey stone.

Woven in India in the Oushak Tradition

The Oushak design comes out of western Anatolia, but this rug was woven in India, where the best contemporary hand-knotted work is now produced. Indian workshops have spent decades refining the Oushak revival: hand-spun wool, a generous pile height, and the softened palette collectors want, all executed on a cotton foundation strong enough to hold a loom 26 feet long without the sides pulling in. Weaving a piece this size takes a team of weavers working a single loom for well over a year, and the back photograph shows the result, with straight, consistent rows of knots from selvage to selvage and no abrash or drift where the weavers changed shift. If you are weighing this against a Persian piece, our guide to what separates a Persian rug from an Oriental rug explains exactly where the two traditions diverge.