10'5" x 13'10" Transitional Indian Rug | Open Beige Field | Forest Green & Gold Borders | Brand New

This is a large, quiet, confident piece: a hand-knotted wool rug from India built around a wide open beige field with an octagonal outline, held inside three bands of forest green, gold and black. There is no medallion and no all over pattern competing for attention, which is exactly why it works under heavy furniture and in rooms that already have art, drapery or a strong wood floor. The pile is a full 1/2" of wool on a cotton foundation, the rug has never been used, and it ships with a certificate of authenticity confirming it is genuinely hand-knotted. At 10'5" x 13'10" it belongs with 10x14 large area rugs that anchor an entire room rather than float in the middle of it.

Design and Motifs

The drawing here is neoclassical rather than tribal. A plain beige field is cut into a broad octagon by clipped corners, and at the top and bottom of that panel sits a single gold leaf and lotus spray outlined in soft brown, the only ornament allowed inside the field. Around the octagon runs a narrow olive band carrying a repeating 5 petal rosette, then a deep teal green band where the corners open up into stylised gold candelabra forms flanked by curling ribbon scrolls. Beyond that, a cream guard stripe of overlapping arrowhead or wheat sheaf leaves separates the teal from a clean emerald green band, and the whole composition closes with a black outer border carrying the same gold leaf chain and small brown cross rosettes at each of the 4 corners. It is the sort of restrained, architectural layout that sits comfortably with modern and contemporary furnishings while still reading as a serious hand-knotted floor covering.

Beige, Forest Green and Gold

Beige is the main color, and in the wool it leans warm, closer to cream and light champagne than to grey, with the natural luster of the pile shifting the tone as you walk around the rug. Against that, the border work is genuinely rich: a deep forest green in the outer band, a darker teal green in the inner band where the corner ornaments sit, and a lighter olive green in the narrow rosette stripe next to the field. The gold runs the full range from pale wheat to a saturated mustard yellow, picked out with small brown outlines that give each leaf its shape, and the black outer border pulls the whole scheme tight and keeps the green from spreading. Brown accents in the corner crosses and the flower stems are the quiet third note. If you are matching to a palette, this piece sits in the beige and ivory rugs family while delivering all of its drama through the green and gold frame.

Hand-Knotted in India

India is where most of the world's good contemporary hand-knotted work is now made, and this rug is a fair example of why. It was knotted by hand on a cotton foundation, knot by knot on the loom, with a heavy 1/2" wool pile that photographs well in the folded corner shot and feels substantial underfoot. The weave is even, the outlines on the leaf and rosette motifs stay crisp rather than blurring, and the corners resolve properly, which is the first place a rushed weave falls apart. Wool this thick in a plain field is also the hardest test of a weaver, because any variation in tension or yarn shows immediately across open ground. Buyers comparing this against Persian city work should read up on what separates a Persian rug from a broader Oriental rug before deciding, because the honest answer is that the two categories serve different rooms and different budgets.