10'2" x 13'9" Pakistani Oriental Rug | Berry Red Traditional Medallion | Fine Wool, Never Used

This is a formal, densely drawn room-size piece measuring 10'2" x 13'9", hand-knotted in Pakistan in fine wool on a cotton foundation with a short 3/8" pile that keeps every stem and blossom legible. It has never been used: the pile stands evenly across the whole field, the selvedges are tight, and the ivory fringe is clean and full, as image 6 shows alongside the ruler and the hand-knotted tag. At just over 10 feet wide it sits squarely in the 10 x 14 rug class, the size most often asked for when a large seating group or a 10 seat dining table has to sit fully on the rug. Every piece we ship leaves with a certificate of authenticity confirming the hand-knotted construction, materials and origin.

Design and Motifs

The layout is the classical formal medallion scheme, drawn with real discipline. A pointed ivory medallion sits at dead center, filled with a symmetrical arrangement of palmettes and small blossoms, ringed by a midnight navy cartouche and then by a pale sage halo that steps out into long finials at the top and bottom. The field around it is not left open: it carries a continuous all-over vine of rosettes, curling leaves and small palmettes that runs corner to corner without a break in rhythm. The 4 corner spandrels repeat the ivory and navy of the medallion, so the eye reads the same 3 tones everywhere. The border system is where this piece departs from the usual: instead of a plain repeating vine, the wide navy main border carries huge fan-shaped sprays of ivory blossoms strung on curved stems, arranged like open peacock tails at each corner and at the center of each side, with elongated ivory and sage cartouches between them. Image 5 shows one of these corner fans close up, and image 4 shows the medallion drawing at full detail.

A Berry Red Field Set Against Sage Green and Midnight Navy

The ground is a deep berry red, cooler and more wine-toned than a bright brick or tomato red, which makes it easy to live with in a room that already has warm wood floors or leather. Against it the vinework is worked in ivory, soft sage green, dusty rose, pale blue and small touches of terracotta, so the field reads as multi-colored at close range and as a rich red at room distance. The main border is a near-black midnight navy, dark enough to frame the field hard, and it is lifted by the ivory blossom fans and by the broad sage green ground that surrounds them at the corners. That sage is the signature note of this rug: a muted grey-green that appears again in the medallion halo, in the spandrels and in the guard stripes, and it keeps the whole palette from ever turning heavy. The ivory of the medallion center is the lightest value on the rug and pulls the eye straight to the middle of the room.

Woven in Pakistan: Workshop Weaving and Quality

Pakistan's workshop weavers built their reputation on exactly this kind of piece: a fine, tightly packed knot on a double-wefted cotton foundation, clipped short so the curved line of the drawing survives. You can see the result in the border close-up, where each small blossom is fully formed and the stems hold a smooth curve rather than a staircase, something a coarse weave simply cannot do at this scale. The wool is well spun and lustrous, with the short pile giving the surface a slight sheen under light and making the rug easy to vacuum and keep clean under furniture. As an Oriental rug in the traditional formal idiom, it belongs with the classically drawn pieces in our Oriental rugs collection rather than with tribal or village work, and in never-used condition it is starting its life from zero with a buyer, not continuing someone else's.