11'11" x 19'9" Oversize Oriental Rug | Herati Tabriz Design | Hand-Knotted Wool, Obeetee India

This is a palace-scale floor, roughly 235 square feet of hand-knotted wool drawn as one continuous Herati field with no medallion to break it up. Pieces this long are woven on a loom that has to be built for the job, and they belong in the small group of oversize Oriental rugs that can actually fill a great room, a long dining hall or a lobby without a seam of bare floor showing. The pile is pure wool on a cotton foundation, the handle is heavy and dense, and the condition is excellent with full, even pile corner to corner and the original mill labels still sewn to the back edge. It ships with a certificate of authenticity.

Design and Motifs

The field carries the classic Herati, also called mahi or fish pattern: a fine diamond lattice, a rosette set at the center of every diamond, and four curved lanceolate leaves turning around each rosette like fish circling a pool. Between them sit small palmettes, 8 petal ivory rosettes and tight sprays of leafwork, so the repeat never reads as mechanical when you stand over it. Because there is no central medallion, this is an all-over design, which is the practical choice at this length since furniture can sit anywhere on it without cutting a medallion in half. The main border is a rust ground carrying big palmettes and flowering vine with small navy cartouches at intervals, framed on both sides by saffron gold guard bands of oval cartouches and green florets. The 4 corners resolve cleanly, the drawing turning the angle without a broken motif, and the whole thing is finished with a navy outer band and ivory fringe.

A Color Story of Midnight Navy, Rust and Saffron Gold

The ground is a deep midnight navy that goes almost black in low light and opens up to a true indigo blue when the sun hits the pile, which is why the field looks darker in the full overhead shot than in the close-ups. Against it the pattern is drawn in rust and burnt orange, apricot, ivory and a clear saffron gold, with small notes of sage and bottle green in the leaves and a chalky light blue in the curled leaf tips. The main border flips the balance completely, putting a warm terracotta rust in charge with green vinework and ivory blossoms over it, and the gold guard stripes act as a bright seam between the two. It is a genuinely multi-color rug, but the palette is disciplined: dark and cool in the middle, warm and glowing at the edge, so the border frames the room and the field grounds it.

Woven in India in the Tabriz Tradition

The back labels tell the story plainly: "Genuine Hand Woven Oriental Rug", country of origin India, all pure wool pile, Obeetee Limited. Obeetee is one of the oldest and most respected hand-knotting houses in India, and India is where most of the world's good contemporary hand-knotted work is produced today, at a level of drawing and finishing that sits comfortably alongside far more expensive names. This piece follows the Tabriz workshop tradition for the Herati layout, the multiple guard borders and the way the pattern is squared up over nearly 20 feet of length, and the weave lives up to it. The back shows a tight, even knot line with no pull or waviness, the motifs hold their shape all the way down the field, and the selvedges and fringe are original and intact. If you want the reasoning behind the naming, our guide on what separates an Oriental rug from its regional cousins is worth a read before you buy.