10' x 20' Oriental Rug | Ivory Serapi Design Medallion | Hand-Knotted in India

At 10' x 20' this is a true palace piece, long enough to carry a great room, a library or a double-length dining space from end to end without a seam or a second rug. It is hand-knotted by hand on a cotton foundation with a 3/8" wool pile, and the drawing follows the classic Serapi formula: a wide ivory field, a single commanding medallion, deep red spandrels and a black main border. The weave is tight and even, the wool takes light with a low sheen rather than a shine, and the piece has never been laid in a home. Every rug we sell, including this one, ships with a certificate of authenticity. Buyers shopping oversize Oriental rugs in this length know how few genuine hand-knotted options exist at 20 feet.

Design and Motifs

The center holds an elongated cruciform medallion drawn in black and ivory, with a small 8 petal rosette at its core framed by a slate blue shield and gold outlines. Four squared cartouches, each carrying a quatrefoil blossom, anchor the corners of the medallion, and long anchor-shaped pendants run off the top and bottom along the length of the field. Around them the ivory ground fills with serrated leaves, angular palmettes and hooked vine stems, all drawn in the straight-line, step-cornered manner that defines this pattern family and separates it from curvilinear city work. The red spandrels at the 4 corners repeat the same vocabulary at larger scale, with olive-toned leaf forms and white blossom heads set against the deep ground. A black main border carries alternating ivory palmettes and turtle-form cartouches joined by a rust vine, flanked on both sides by narrow red guard stripes packed with small stylized florets. If you are drawn to this angular vocabulary, the wider selection of geometric medallion rugs is worth a look.

Ivory, Red and Black Color Palette

The field reads as a warm ivory, closer to unbleached cream than to a cold white, and it shifts slightly toward pale straw where the light crosses the pile. Against it the spandrels and border ground do the heavy lifting: a deep brick red, almost oxblood in the corners, and a true black that reads nearly charcoal in the border field and gives the whole rug its frame. Within the drawing the secondary tones are what keep it from feeling flat, with olive and sage green in the leaf forms, a muted slate blue in the cartouche fills and the small rosettes, soft gold and ochre in the outlines, and a scattered dark aubergine in the smaller motifs. Ivory outlining runs along nearly every shape, which is what makes the pattern legible from across a large room. The overall effect is dark and grounded at the perimeter and open and light through the center, so the rug reads formal without turning heavy.

Made in India: Weaving and Quality

This rug was hand-knotted in India, which is where most of the world's best contemporary hand-knotted work is now produced, and we say that with confidence rather than apology. The weaving houses working in the Serapi tradition use handspun wool, vegetable-toned dye lots and upright looms, and the results are honest, durable floor rugs rather than delicate display pieces. The back photograph shows the story clearly: knot rows are straight, the pattern is fully legible from the reverse, and the selvedges and cotton warps are clean and consistent across a 20 foot run, which is not easy to hold on a loom of this length. The 3/8" pile is substantial enough for heavy traffic while still letting the outlining read crisply. If you are weighing where this sits in the broader market, our guide on the difference between a Persian and an Oriental rug explains what the terms actually mean and what you are paying for.