11'11" x 15' Jaipur Wool and Silk Rug | Ivory All Over Floral | Brown Border | Brand New

This is a genuinely large room-filling piece, 11'11" x 15' of hand-knotted wool and silk from the workshops of Jaipur, and it reads as calm rather than heavy despite covering almost 180 square feet. The ivory field carries an all over floral trellis with no medallion, so the drawing stays even from end to end and furniture can sit anywhere on it without cutting a centerpiece in half. A wide chocolate brown border wraps the whole thing and gives the pale ground a frame with real weight. The pile is thick, the silk passes in the flowers catch light as you move around the rug, and the piece is brand new with no wear anywhere. Buyers shopping oversize 12x15 rugs rarely find this level of finish at this scale. It ships with a certificate of authenticity confirming the hand-knotted construction, materials and origin.

Design and Motifs

The field is an all over design built from a continuous vine system: slender stems curl across the ivory ground and open into large lobed palmettes, cupped blossoms, serrated acanthus leaves and small 5 petal star flowers. Nothing repeats mechanically, and the scale shifts deliberately, with the biggest palmettes measuring several inches across while tiny buds fill the spaces between. The main border runs a different rhythm, a scrolling arabesque of split leaves and fan palmettes on brown, punctuated by rosettes set inside open cartouche shapes. Between border and field sit narrow guard stripes: a zigzag reciprocal band picked out in gold, brown and aubergine, and an outer ivory skirt carrying a small diamond and dart motif that carries right up to the fringe. The corners resolve cleanly, which on a rug this wide is a sign the cartoon was drawn properly and followed to the end.

Ivory, Brown and Burgundy Color Palette

The ground is a warm ivory that sits closer to cream and light champagne than to white, with the faint natural variation good undyed wool always shows. Against it the flowers work in a soft autumnal range: antique gold and honey in the large palmettes, muted olive and sage green in the leaves, dusty rose and terracotta in the petals, and deep burgundy used as an outline color that pulls every motif into focus. The border is a dark cocoa brown with a purplish cast in raking light, filled with the same golds and greens so the two halves of the rug speak to each other. The silk is concentrated in the highlights, and in the close-up photos you can see it flash gold and pale green where the wool stays matte. There is no harsh contrast anywhere, which is why the rug settles easily into rooms with warm woods, brass, cream upholstery and a little black.

Jaipur Weaving and Quality

Jaipur, in Rajasthan, is one of the great centers of hand-knotted work today, and India is where most of the world's best contemporary weaving is now produced. That is not a consolation prize: the ateliers there work from full-scale cartoons, spin and dye their own wool, and blend silk into the design where it will actually be seen. The back of this piece shows an even, tightly packed knot on a cotton foundation, with straight rows and no pulling at the sides, and the ends are finished with hand-tied ivory fringe. The pile has been sheared with enough height to give the flowers dimension while keeping the drawing crisp. If you are weighing this against a Persian piece, the differences in wool, dye tradition and drawing are worth understanding before you buy, and our guide on the difference between Persian and Oriental rug weaving lays them out plainly.