10'2" x 14' Oushak Rug | Slate Gray Field with Pastel Floral Medallions | Hand-Knotted Wool

A brand new, never used Oushak in a size that actually fits a real room: at 10'2" x 14' this one covers a full seating group or a 10 seat dining table with pile to spare at the edges. It is hand-knotted entirely by hand, wool pile on a cotton foundation, and the back tag reads Design 1797, Quality 5/5, Colour Silver-Multi, hand knotted in India. The weave is even and tight enough for the drawing to stay crisp across a field this wide, and the pile has the dry, slightly lustrous handle of good highland wool rather than the waxy feel of a machine-made copy. Every rug we ship carries a certificate of authenticity confirming it is genuinely hand-knotted, along with its size, materials and origin. If you are comparing pieces at this footprint, it sits with our other 10x14 hand-knotted rugs.

Design and Motifs

This is a classic Oushak layout, no central medallion, just a calm repeating field. Two staggered columns of large hooded palmettes, 8 of them in total, alternate with stepped 4 armed cruciform rosettes set on a fine tendril lattice. Each palmette is outlined in one color and filled with a small blue vase and leaf sprig, so the same shape reads differently 8 times over. The main border runs 8 petal rosettes with square centers between angular hooked vine brackets, framed inside and out by narrow sawtooth guard bands of pale triangles. The drawing is deliberately soft and slightly asymmetric, which is what separates a hand-knotted Oushak from a printed lookalike, and the balanced repeat makes it one of the easier all over design rugs to place under furniture, since no focal point gets swallowed by a sofa.

Color: Slate Gray Ground with Gold and Pastel Accents

The ground is a slate gray with a distinct blue cast, woven with a gentle abrash that shifts a shade lighter and darker in horizontal bands, so the field never looks flat or painted. Against it the palmettes are picked out in mustard gold, warm butter cream, ivory, celadon green and a dusty peach pink, each one ringed with a thin line of clear turquoise blue that gives the whole rug its sparkle. The border pinks are soft and powdery, with pale mint green centers and tan brown accents in the vine work. Read from across the room the effect is essentially a silver gray rug with a multi-color pastel glow, cool enough to work with white oak, linen and nickel, warm enough to keep it from feeling cold. Buyers working within a neutral scheme can see how it compares with our other gray and charcoal rugs.

Origin and Weaving Quality: Hand-Knotted in India

The Oushak name comes from the weaving town of Usak in western Anatolia, famous for large scale rugs with open fields and soft color. This piece is a contemporary interpretation of that tradition, hand-knotted in India, which is where most of the world's genuinely good new hand-knotted work is now produced. The workshops there spin and dye their own wool, employ weavers trained on traditional cartoons, and their output at this quality level is the honest equal of the village weaving it descends from. If you want the background on how a piece like this differs from a Persian city rug, our guide on what makes an Oriental rug distinct is worth 5 minutes. The photographs of the back and the folded corner show what to look for here: rows of individual knots, a straight tight selvage, hand-finished cotton fringe, and a medium pile with plenty of density behind it for a rug this large to hold its shape under heavy furniture for decades.