10' x 14' Hand-Knotted Oriental Rug | Black All-Over Floral Field | Ivory Border | Vegetable Dyed Wool

Black grounds are the hardest color to weave well, because every leaf tip and every vine has to be drawn cleanly or the pattern disappears into the field. This 10' x 14' piece handles it, the whole surface reading as warm gold and ivory scrollwork floating on jet black. It is a hand-knotted Oriental rug woven in wool on a cotton foundation, with a close-clipped pile that keeps the fine drawing legible, and it sits squarely in the most useful of all large formats for a dining room or a full living room seating group. Every rug we sell ships with a certificate of authenticity, and if you are shopping this footprint you can compare it against our other 10 x 14 area rugs.

Design and Motifs

There is no central medallion here. Instead the weaver used a mirrored all-over floral design that repeats symmetrically on the long axis: broad serrated acanthus leaves curling back on themselves, large fan-shaped palmettes, and thin vines that link one bloom to the next without ever crowding the field. Scattered through the black ground are small lobed rosettes, each one a rust outline around a dusty rose center with a pale blue halo of petals, and tiny 4 petal blossoms in terracotta that punctuate the empty spaces. The ivory main border carries alternating sunburst palmettes and a rolling leaf vine, framed on both sides by narrow guard stripes filled with a running zigzag ribbon and small stars. The corners resolve cleanly, which is the mark of a weaver working from a well drawn cartoon rather than improvising at the end.

Color Palette

The field is a deep, even black with no blue cast, and it works as a stage for everything else. The pattern itself is built almost entirely from warm neutrals: wheat, antique gold, sand and pale apricot, with salmon and dusty rose shading inside the larger palmettes. Cooler notes keep it from going flat, a soft denim blue in the leaf edges, a muted sage green in the smaller foliage, and aubergine used as a fine outline where two light tones meet. Rust and brick red appear only in small doses, at rosette centers and in the border flower heads, so they read as accents rather than as a second field color. The main border is a creamy ivory that warms toward tan where the light hits the pile, and the close-up photographs show the gentle tonal variation you get from hand-dyed, hand-spun yarn rather than a flat machine-matched color.

Origin and Weaving Quality

This rug was hand-knotted in Pakistan, where the workshops around Lahore have spent generations weaving classical traditional patterns to a genuinely high standard, and today they produce some of the best value in hand-knotted wool anywhere. The construction is straightforward and honest: a cotton warp and weft, a dense wool pile clipped low so the fine vinework stays sharp, black overcast selvages worked by hand along both edges, and natural cotton fringe at the ends. The reverse shows a tight, regular knot with the pattern reading clearly through to the back, which is the simplest test of whether a rug was woven carefully or hurried. At 10 feet by 14 feet this is a serious amount of handwork, and the wool has the springy, slightly lustrous handle that holds up under dining chairs and traffic for decades.