10' x 15'10" Kazak Oriental Rug | Yak Kash Paneled Geometric Design | Red & Ivory Wool

This is a big, confident room rug: 10' x 15'10" of hand-knotted wool in the Yak Kash version of the classic Kazak drawing, with a deep red field carrying five long rows of ivory panels and star medallions inside a wide cream border. At this footprint it belongs with the oversize Oriental rugs, covering a full great room or a long dining space wall to wall rather than floating in the middle of it. The pile is a full 3/8" of dense highland wool on a cotton foundation, the handle is heavy and firm, and the condition is excellent with no wear, no repair and no restoration. Every rug we sell ships with a certificate of authenticity confirming that it is hand-knotted, along with the size, materials and origin recorded on this page.

Design and Motifs

The field is built as a panel lattice rather than a single medallion, which is what collectors mean by a Yak Kash layout. Square ivory and blue framed panels alternate with large latch hook diamonds and elongated cream lozenges, each one filled with an 8 point star, a rosette or a stepped cross. Between the panels the weaver has set pairs of serrated leaves and small ladder bars in olive and ivory, so no part of the red ground is left empty and the eye moves along the length of the rug in even steps. Every line is angular and drawn on the knot, the hallmark of the best geometric rugs in this tradition. The main border repeats palmette rosettes with cypress and vine forms and hooked tendrils on cream, framed by narrow guard stripes of small 4 petal flowers on soft blue, which is a piece of drawing worth studying up close since the border alone runs roughly 14 inches wide on each side.

Color: Deep Red Field, Ivory Panels and Sky Blue Accents

The ground is a deep tomato red that reads slightly brick in daylight and darker, almost garnet, under lamplight, with the gentle tonal movement across the width that comes from small dye lots and hand-spun wool. Against it the ivory is warm and creamy rather than white, so the panels glow instead of glaring. The accent palette is broader than the two headline colors: medium sky blue and a deeper denim blue carry most of the secondary drawing, with olive green outlines, soft apricot and rust in the lozenge frames, and small touches of gold in the guard stripes. The cream main border lifts the whole field and gives the rug a light edge, which matters in a room this size. It is an easy palette to build around with warm woods, brass, navy upholstery and cream walls.

Origin and Weaving Quality

Made in Kazakhstan, this piece belongs to the Kazak weaving family, the tough highland tradition that gives its name to one of the most recognizable of all geometric designs. It is hand-knotted throughout on a cotton foundation with a heavy wool pile, and the weave is even from selvage to selvage, with straight sides, tight overcast edges and flat ends, which is not easy to hold over a 15'10" length on the loom. The wool is the real story: long staple, high in lanolin and cut at 3/8", it takes dye beautifully and resists crushing, so a rug like this can take a dining table and chairs for decades without going flat. If you are weighing this against a city workshop piece, the difference in category is explained well in our guide to what separates a Persian rug from a broader Oriental rug, and this one sits firmly in the village and tribal rug camp: bold drawing, honest wool, built to be used.