11'7" x 15'2" Indian Heriz Design Rug | All-Over Floral Red Field | Excellent Condition

At 11'7" x 15'2" this is a true room-covering piece, hand-knotted in wool on a cotton foundation and heavy enough to anchor a great room, a formal dining table with all the chairs pulled out, or a long open-plan living space. The field is a deep brick red carrying an all-over floral drawing, and the wide ivory main border with its gold and tan guard stripes gives the rug a bright, formal frame from every angle. The pile is full and even, the fringe clean, and the selvages tight, as the corner and reverse photographs show. It ships with a certificate of authenticity, and buyers shopping other oversize hand-knotted rugs will find few in this size with drawing this fine.

Design and Motifs

This piece is catalogued as a Heriz design, but the weaver has drawn it in a curvilinear rather than an angular manner, which is what makes it unusual. Instead of one stepped central medallion, the red ground is filled edge to edge with large radiating rosettes, split palmettes, serrated leaves and thin scrolling vines that mirror across both axes. Small blossoms and tendrils fill every gap, so the field never reads as empty even across 15 feet of length. The border system runs to seven stripes: a wide ivory main band of linked palmettes and vinery, flanked by narrow floral guards and a fine outer meander. Collectors looking for similar work should compare other all-over floral rugs in room sizes.

Color: Deep Red Field with Ivory, Gold and Sage

The ground is a deep brick red with a slight wine cast, softened by the wool's natural luster so it shifts lighter or darker depending on where you stand. Against it the drawing is worked in ivory, wheat gold, tan, soft sage green, olive and warm brown, with fine outlines in charcoal and dark brown that keep each flower legible. The main border is a pale ivory to cream that lifts the whole rug and gives it a bright edge in a dark room, while the guard stripes pick up gold, rust and muted green. The selvage is finished in the same red as the field and the fringe is natural undyed cotton. There is no black in the palette, which is why the rug reads warm rather than heavy.

Made in India: Weaving Center and Quality

India is where most of the world's good contemporary hand-knotted work is now made, and this rug shows exactly why. The weaving centers of the north, around Bhadohi, Mirzapur, Agra and Amritsar, have carried the classical Oriental design vocabulary forward for well over a century, and their best workshops now produce drawing, dyeing and finishing that rival anything woven today. Every knot here is tied by hand on a cotton warp and weft, the pile is clipped low enough to hold the fine outlines of the vinework, and the reverse shows a clear, regular knot grid with no slack rows. If you want the background on how the terminology works, read our guide on what separates a Persian from an Oriental rug before you buy.