10'2" x 13'8" Agra Oriental Rug | Antique All-Over Floral Design | Tan, Gold and Rust | New

This 10'2" x 13'8" Agra is a new rug woven to an old blueprint. The weavers took the classic 19th century Agra vocabulary, an open field dusted with large palmettes and scrolling vines, and held the whole thing in a soft tan ground so the drawing reads as warm rather than busy. The pile is wool on a cotton foundation, the handle is firm with a short even clip, and the hand-spun yarn gives the field the gentle streaking you can see in the detail photos. At roughly 139 square feet it covers a full dining or great room, and it sits comfortably among our 10x14 Oriental rugs. Every rug we ship carries our certificate of authenticity confirming it is genuinely hand-knotted.

Design and Motifs

The field is one of the better all-over floral rugs we have had in this format: no central medallion, just a loose lattice of thin orange vines carrying big lobed palmettes, 8 petal rosettes, half palmettes and curled leaves, with small ivory and pink blossom clusters filling the spaces between. Four large serrated leaves, drawn in brown and cream, anchor the inner corners and give the open ground some weight. The border scheme runs in 5 bands: a rose diamond lattice at the outer edge, a narrow ivory floral guard, a wide saffron main border of vine and anchor-shaped cloud motifs, a brown zigzag minor stripe, and a final gold guard before the field. The corners resolve cleanly, which on a rug this wide is a sign the cartoon was followed carefully from both ends.

A Palette of Tan, Gold, Rust and Pink

Color is what sells this rug. The ground is a soft camel tan that shifts toward sand under light and toward a warmer biscuit in shadow, the kind of abrash you only get from hand-spun, small-batch dyed wool. The main border is saffron gold, warm and slightly mustard, and it is outlined by a dusty rose pink that carries the diamond lattice at the outer edge. Inside the field the flowers move through rose, salmon, terracotta rust and a clear buttery yellow, with cocoa brown outlines holding the shapes and ivory highlights keeping everything from going flat. There is no navy and no black anywhere, so the rug stays light on the floor and works with oak, walnut, cream upholstery and brass. The macro photo of the pink and gold palmette shows how the colors are blended knot by knot rather than printed in blocks.

Woven in Agra, India

Agra, in Uttar Pradesh, has been a weaving city since the Mughal court workshops, and by the late 1800s its looms were producing the large-format floral room-size rugs that still define the Agra name for collectors. The town never stopped, and India is now where most of the world's best contemporary hand-knotted work is made: this piece is a current example of that, made in India to the old Agra drawing and finished with hand-tied fringe and a flat selvage you can see in the corner shots. The back shows straight, tight rows of symmetrical knots on a cotton warp with no bowing across the full 10'2" width, which is the practical test of a well-managed loom at this scale. If you are comparing it against Persian city weaving, our guide on what an Oriental rug actually is explains where the two traditions separate, and you can browse the rest of our Indian Oriental rugs alongside it.