10' x 13'8" Agra Oriental Rug | Ziegler All-Over Floral on Ivory | Brand New Natural Wool

This is a brand new, hand-knotted Agra rug woven in India in the Ziegler manner, a full room size at 10 feet wide by 13 feet 8 inches long. The field is an unbroken ivory to soft beige ground carrying a continuous floral lattice, wrapped by a deep chocolate brown main border. The pile is natural wool on a cotton foundation, cut to a medium height that keeps the drawing crisp while giving the surface a quiet sheen in daylight. It is a classic Oriental rug in the traditional sense: symmetrical, formal, and built for a long life under furniture. Every rug we ship carries a certificate of authenticity confirming that it is hand-knotted, its materials and its origin.

Design and Motifs

There is no central medallion here. Instead the weaver ran an all-over floral design from selvage to selvage: paired scrolling vines that swing out, meet, and enclose large lotus palmettes, split leaves, and small 8 petal rosettes. Look at the close detail shots and you can see the stems drawn with a fine dark outline, which is what keeps a busy field legible rather than muddy. The main brown border carries alternating rosettes and serrated acanthus leaves, and it is flanked by two narrow guard stripes of reciprocating vine on a pale ground, with a plain ivory outer band that frames the whole piece. Corners are resolved cleanly on all 4 sides, a detail that separates a carefully cartooned rug from a rushed one.

A Study in Beige, Brown and Olive

The palette is deliberately restrained, which is why this design has stayed in demand among buyers shopping beige and ivory rugs. The field reads as warm cream with a sand undertone that shifts toward pale gold where the light hits the pile. Against it, the main border is a deep cocoa brown, almost espresso in the shadowed folds, and that contrast is what gives the rug its structure across nearly 14 feet. The drawing itself is olive and sage green, with softer khaki tones in the leaves, lifted by rust and terracotta accents in the vine tips and by small notes of pale blue-grey inside the rosette centers. Touches of deep red appear only as outlines, used sparingly to sharpen the flowers rather than to color them.

Agra Weaving in India Today

Agra has been a weaving center since the Mughal court workshops, and the city's looms still produce some of the best hand-knotted work being made anywhere. India is where most of the world's good contemporary hand-knotted rugs now come from, and this piece shows why: even knotting, a straight, flat handle with no rippling, tight selvages, and a back that is clean and regular right through to the fringe, as you can see in the reverse photo. The Ziegler drawing tradition, soft in palette and floral in rhythm, suits a room where the rug should hold the space without shouting. At this scale it belongs under a full seating group or a long dining table, and buyers comparing other 10x14 area rugs will find few at this level of finish in brand new condition.