11'3" x 14'9" Indo-Bijar Oriental Rug | Navy Herati Field with Ivory Medallion | Hand-Knotted Wool, Excellent Condition

At 11'3" x 14'9" this is a genuine room-filling piece, hand-knotted in India during the 2000's in the classic Bijar manner: a deep navy ground carrying an unbroken herati lattice, one hexagonal medallion at dead center, and a wide multi-stripe border that frames the whole field. The wool is dense and springy underfoot, the pile is even from end to end, and the reverse shows tight, regular knotting with no repairs, no reweaves and no thin spots. It is a previously owned rug in excellent condition, which is exactly why a hand-knotted Oriental rug of this scale is worth buying at this price rather than new. Every piece we ship leaves with a certificate of authenticity confirming the size, materials and hand-knotted construction, and pieces in the oversized rugs range like this one ship free in all 50 states with no freight surcharge.

Design and Motifs

The drawing follows the Bijar design to the letter, the layout that made the Kurdish weaving town of Bijar famous: an all-over herati, also called mahi or fish pattern, in which every diamond frames a rosette and is flanked by 4 curling lanceolate leaves, repeated across the entire field without a break. A single hexagonal medallion sits at the center, its ivory and olive core filled with its own miniature herati and outlined twice in ivory, with small stepped pendants floating above and below it on the long axis. The corners answer with large stepped spandrels in the same dark ground, their edges drawn in fine ivory line so the geometry stays crisp from across the room. The border system is deep and layered: a main band of alternating palmettes and rosettes on navy, flanked by rows of small reciprocal diamonds, meander vines and barber-pole stripes, seven bands in all before the rug meets its rust-red selvedge and ivory fringe.

A Field of Navy, Rust and Ivory

The ground is a very dark navy blue that reads almost black in shadow and opens into true indigo where the light catches it. Over that ground the herati lattice is drawn in warm rust that softens toward rose and salmon in the open field, so the pattern glows rather than shouts, and the two tones together give the rug its mellow, slightly antiqued cast. Ivory does the outlining work throughout, tracing the medallion, the spandrel steps and the reciprocal guard stripes, while the medallion core brings in a muted olive-green and camel that lifts the center away from the surrounding dark. Look closely at the border and you find small touches of pale sea-green and soft coral inside the palmettes. The finishing rust-red selvedge and the ivory fringe close the whole scheme cleanly. It is a color story that lives comfortably with browns, brass, leather and warm woods, and it hides everyday traffic better than any light field ever will.

Woven in India in the Bijar Tradition

This rug was made in India, and that is a recommendation rather than a caveat: India is where most of the world's good contemporary hand-knotted work is now produced, and the best workshops there weave classic layouts with a discipline and consistency that is getting harder to find anywhere else. You can see it here in the evenness of the herati repeat across nearly 15 feet of length, in the way the medallion sits perfectly square to the borders, and in the tight, regular knotting visible on the reverse in the back photograph. The pile is hard-wearing wool on a cotton foundation, the combination that gives a rug this size the weight to lie flat without a pad fighting it and the resilience to take furniture, chairs and foot traffic for decades. For a dining table with chairs pulled out, or a large living room where the sofa and chairs all sit on the rug, an 11'3" x 14'9" piece of this density is the practical choice as well as the handsome one.