12' x 17'4" Jaipur Oriental Rug | Soltanabad All-Over Floral | Rustic Burgundy & Black | New

This is a big, quiet, confident room rug: 12' x 17'4" of hand-knotted natural wool on a cotton foundation, woven in Jaipur, India in the Soltanabad manner. Nothing about it is machine assisted, and nothing about it shouts. The drawing is loose and generous, the wool has the slight sheen of a good hand-spun yarn, and at this length it covers a great room or a long formal dining space wall to wall without a seam or a break in the pattern. It has never been used, the pile stands full and even across the whole field, and the ends and sides are original and intact. Every rug we ship carries a certificate of authenticity confirming it as a genuine hand-knotted piece. If you are shopping oversize 12x18 rugs and want the traditional look without a formal court medallion, this is the shape that fits.

Design and Motifs

The field carries an all-over Soltanabad composition with no central medallion. Large lobed palmettes, some 8 inches across, sit at intervals along a lattice of curving vine, linked by serrated leaves, small 8 petal rosettes and closed buds. The drawing is deliberately broad and slightly rustic, the way the best Soltanabad revivals are: each blossom is filled in with 3 or 4 tones rather than outlined tightly, which gives the surface a painterly, faded-tapestry look even though the rug is new. The main border is a wide black band of alternating palmettes and cusped flower heads, and it is flanked by a pale guard stripe of reciprocal vine and tiny leaf forms that runs unbroken around all 4 corners. The corner resolutions are clean, the vine turns without a stumble, and the field pattern repeats without visible shortcuts across nearly 17 feet of length.

A Rustic Burgundy Field Against Jet Black

The ground is a rustic burgundy that reads as wine and plum in daylight and deepens toward oxblood under lamp light, with the soft abrash of hand-dyed wool moving gently across the width. Against it the palmettes come up in antique gold, camel and warm salmon, shaded inward with olive green and a pale ivory that keeps the whole field from going heavy. The main border is a true jet black, and it does most of the work here: it pulls the burgundy forward, sharpens the gold blossoms sitting on it, and gives the rug a hard graphic edge that suits dark wood, brass and deep upholstery. Olive green appears again in the leaf tips and in the inner detailing of the border flowers, tying field and border together. The narrow guard stripe is a peachy ivory with burgundy and green tracery, a small band of light that separates the two dominant tones.

Woven in Jaipur, India

Jaipur, in Rajasthan, is one of the workshop centers that made India the home of most of the world's good contemporary hand-knotted weaving, and this piece is a fair example of why. The warps are cotton, hand-tied into a plain ivory fringe at both ends, the knotting is even and tight enough to hold the curved vine work cleanly, and the pile has been clipped to a medium height that lets the wool keep its luster. Weaving a single rug this size on one loom takes a team and a long stretch of time, and the consistency from end to end is the thing to judge: the black border stays black, the burgundy holds its depth, and the pattern does not drift. If you are still weighing the difference between a Persian piece and an Oriental rug from India, the honest answer is that at this scale and this quality of wool, Jaipur competes directly on merit.