12'1" x 17'4" Oushak Oriental Rug | Ivory & Blue-Gray All Over Floral | Hand-Knotted Wool, Never Used

This is a room-filling piece at 12'1" x 17'4", hand-knotted in India on a cotton foundation with a wool pile and finished with hand-overcast selvages and ivory cotton fringe. The drawing follows the Oushak idiom: an open silvery ivory ground filled with oversized serrated rosettes and palmettes instead of one dominant central medallion, framed by a broad slate blue-gray border. Because the field repeats rather than centers, it reads well down a long room, which is why shoppers comparing oversize hand-knotted rugs in the 12 by 17 range keep circling back to this pattern. The rug is new and never used, still carrying its original weaver's label, and it ships with a certificate of authenticity confirming it as a genuine hand-knotted Oriental rug.

Design and Motifs

The field carries staggered rows of large lobed rosettes and hooked palmettes, each one drawn with the deliberate angularity that defines Oushak work: flat planes, blunt serrations, no fussy curvilinear shading. The rosettes are linked by slender stems that throw off small 4 petal crosses, tulip buds and paired leaf sprays, so the ground never looks empty even though the spacing is generous. A copper-toned rosette sits close to the middle and acts as a quiet anchor, with 8 petal star rosettes in charcoal and deep teal punctuating the rows on either side. The main border runs a chain of flattened hexagonal medallions with gold centers, separated by stylized leaf and vase forms, and is fenced by narrow guard stripes of little crosses, squares and hooked C shapes. At the 4 corners the border turns cleanly rather than being cut off mid motif, a sign of a drawn-out cartoon rather than a rushed one.

Color: Ivory Ground With Blue-Gray, Gold and Pumpkin

The ground is a cool ivory that leans faintly silver-gray under daylight, which is what keeps the palette calm at this scale. Against it the rosettes come up in saffron gold, pumpkin and soft peach, muted sage green, and two blues: a clear baby blue and a darker denim tone. A few motifs are drawn in charcoal and near-black teal, and those dark notes matter, because they give the eye something to land on in an otherwise pale field. The wide border shifts to a slate blue-gray with visible abrash, the natural tonal banding you can see in the pile close-ups, ranging from dusty periwinkle to a deeper steel blue. Gold cartouches, ivory outlines and peach florets ride on top of that border ground, and the outermost stripes pick up light blue with cream. Nothing here is loud; the whole rug sits in the pastel and neutral range while still reading as a colored rug rather than a beige one.

Woven in India in the Oushak Tradition

India is where most of the world's best contemporary hand-knotted rugs are made today, and this one shows why. The back, visible in the folded corner shots, is even and tightly packed, with clean row definition and straight sides across nearly 17 and a half feet of length, which is not easy to hold on a loom this wide. The wool has a soft matte handle with a gentle sheen, cut to a medium pile height that will take traffic in a great room or a long dining room without crushing. The original workshop label reads Design 1107, Quality 5/5, Colour Ivory/multi, Size 12.1 x 17.4, Hand Knotted in India, with the No Child Labour Used mark. Sizes like this are woven to order in small numbers, so a piece of this scale in a light Oushak palette is not something that gets reordered on demand.