10' x 19'5" Indian Oriental Rug | William Morris Green Floral Trellis | Brand New Oversize

Very few hand-knotted floors are made at this length, and fewer still in a soft sage green. This piece runs 10' x 19'5", long enough to carry a full great room or a double-length salon, and it is woven entirely by hand in wool on a cotton foundation with a 3/8" pile that already feels settled underfoot. The drawing follows the William Morris vocabulary of the English Arts and Crafts movement, translated onto the loom by Indian weavers who have been building this kind of Oriental rug for well over a century. It is brand new and has never been on a floor, which is genuinely unusual among oversize hand-knotted rugs of this scale, since most surviving examples of this length have already lived a long life. Every rug leaves us with a certificate of authenticity confirming that it is hand-knotted, along with its exact measurements, materials and origin.

Design and Motifs

The field is an all-over design with no medallion, built on a slender trellis of red stems that branch and cross the full 19'5" length. At each junction sits a large fan-shaped carnation palmette, flanked by paired scrolling leaves and by dark navy tulip buds that hang from their own thin stalks. Between them the ground is filled with tight clusters of small 8 petal rosettes, grouped in blocks of 4 and 6, so the eye reads texture first and structure second. The main border is a wide ivory band carrying alternating pomegranate-like blossoms, angular leaf forms and a repeating row of little pink rosettes strung along a vine. That band is framed on both sides by a raspberry pink guard stripe set with cruciform florets, then by narrow green and rust minor stripes, and finished with a plain olive green outer edge. The corners are resolved cleanly, with the border pattern turning rather than being cut off, which is the sign of a properly drawn cartoon rather than a rushed one.

The Green, Pink and Ivory Palette

The field colour is the whole point of this rug. It is a muted sage that shifts toward celadon in daylight and toward a deeper olive where the pile lies the other way, so the surface changes as you walk the length of the room. Against that ground the florals are worked in raspberry and rose pink, with softer salmon and peach halos around the larger palmettes and small hits of saffron gold in the leaf tips. Navy blue carries the tulip buds and the outlines of the scrolling leaves, and a light turquoise threads through the foliage as a cool counterpoint. The border shifts the temperature completely, from cool green to a warm ivory and sand ground with wine red, aubergine and pale jade detail. It is a far quieter palette than a classic red and navy floor, and it sits well with pale walls, walnut, brass and natural linen, which is why collectors of green rugs tend to move quickly when a green field this large surfaces.

Made in India: Weave and Quality

India is where most of the world's good contemporary hand-knotted work is now made, and we say that with no hedging. The northern Indian weaving centres kept their looms, their dyers and their apprenticeship system intact when other producing regions lost theirs, and the best of their output is drawn and knotted to a standard that stands comparison with anything being woven today. This rug is a workshop piece rather than a village one: the trellis holds true over almost 20 feet, the rosette clusters repeat without drift, and the selvedges and fringe at the back, visible in the last photograph, are finished by hand. The wool is spun for durability, with enough lanolin left in it to take the soft green and pink dyes cleanly and to keep a quiet sheen. At 3/8" the pile is substantial enough for real traffic in a dining room, a lobby or a long living room, and on a cotton foundation a rug of this weight will lie dead flat once it has been rolled out and given a week to settle.