12' x 18'1" Kazak Design Oversize Rug | Triple Geometric Medallion | Brand New Wool Pile

This is a big, confident room-filling piece: a brand new hand-knotted Kazak design measuring 12' x 18'1", woven with a full wool pile on a cotton foundation and never laid in a home. The drawing is pure village geometry, three stacked medallions running the length of a deep blue and rust red field, and at this scale the pattern reads clearly from across the largest room rather than crowding it. The wool has the slightly glossy handle you see in images 5 and 7, with clean knot definition at the edges and a tight, even selvage. Pieces in the class of oversize 12x18 rugs are woven to order on very wide looms and rarely come to market unused, which makes a perfect-condition example like this one worth taking seriously. Every rug ships with a certificate of authenticity confirming it is 100% hand-knotted.

Design and Motifs

The field is organized around 3 medallions on a single vertical axis. The center one is a broad pale gold cartouche with hooked ends, holding a small red panel and an 8 point star at the very heart of the rug, ringed by rows of curling S scrolls drawn in navy and red. Above and below it sit 2 large shield medallions with stepped, latch hook outlines in sage green and blue, each filled with an interlocking key and swastika-form lattice, a motif carried down from old Caucasian village weaving. The 4 corners of the red ground carry stylized candelabra trees in blue and gold, with small crosses and rosettes scattered as fillers across the open blue field. The border system is where the weaver spent real time: a wide main band of alternating blue, sage and gold panels, each holding a paired quatrefoil scroll, framed inside and out by sawtooth guard stripes and a fine reciprocal trefoil edge. Buyers who like this kind of bold, angular drawing usually find the rest of the geometric rugs selection worth a look.

A Palette of Blue, Rust Red and Banana Yellow

The interior field is a medium denim blue with gentle abrash, a natural lightening and deepening across the width that you can see in image 3 where the tone shifts toward teal near the medallion and settles darker at the sides. Around it, the ground turns a deep rust red, closer to brick than to cherry, and the same red repeats in the wide outer frame so the rug is bracketed top and bottom by warm color. The central cartouche is a light banana yellow that photographs almost as soft gold, and that yellow returns in the border panels, the tree motifs and the thin outlining stripes. Sage green does the quiet work: it outlines the hooked medallions, fills alternate border panels and keeps the red and blue from fighting each other. Small touches of ivory, charcoal and a warmer amber appear in the guard stripes, visible in the close-up of image 7. Against warm oak, walnut or stone floors the red reads rich rather than loud, and the blue field gives the eye somewhere to rest.

Kazak Weaving Made in India

The Kazak pattern family comes out of the southern Caucasus, where village weavers worked in bold blocks of color with no curved lines at all. This rug is a faithful reading of that tradition, hand-knotted in India, which is where most of the world's good contemporary hand-knotted work is now made. The better Indian workshops spin their own wool, control their dye lots and keep weavers on a single large loom for a year or more, and that discipline shows here in straight sides, square corners and a border that closes correctly on all 4 sides at nearly 18 feet of length. The pile is cut medium-low, dense enough to stand up under heavy traffic, and the cotton warp and weft keep a rug this size lying flat instead of buckling. If you are weighing how this kind of piece differs from other categories, the guide on what separates a Persian rug from an Oriental rug is the clearest explanation we have, and more pieces on this scale sit in the oversized rugs collection.