13'10" x 24'5" Palace Size Oriental Rug | Midnight Blue Sarouk Design | Brand New Hand-Knotted Wool

At 13'10" x 24'5" this hand-knotted wool rug covers close to 340 square feet, enough to fill a ballroom floor or a long formal gallery end to end, and it is one of the few oversize rugs drawn in a fully detailed Sarouk floral scheme instead of a simplified large-format repeat. The field is a midnight blue so deep that it reads as black until light moves across the 3/8" pile, and across it the weavers set an all-over garden of flowering shrubs and feathered leaf sprays in salmon, camel, sage and old gold. The rug is brand new, has never been laid in a home or walked on, and ships with a certificate of authenticity stating its measurements, materials, hand-knotted construction and origin.

Design and Motifs

The drawing is a mirrored all-over composition rather than a single dominant medallion, which is exactly what a room of this length needs: the eye is carried down the field instead of being stopped in the middle. At the center sits a small sage and gold rosette, ringed by 4 curving sprays of feathered acanthus leaves that spiral outward like open fans. From there the field builds in repeating tiers of flowering shrubs, each one rising from a slender stem into clusters of rosettes, tulip-shaped buds and serrated leaves, with tall cypress-like sprays marking the vertical axis. Large cream and gold boteh, the classic teardrop paisley, anchor the 4 corners of the field just inside the border line. The main burgundy border runs a continuous vine of palmettes and blossoms, and it is framed on both sides by wide camel guard stripes of linked rosettes, then by narrow reciprocal bands in slate and ivory that finish the edge cleanly against a flat, tightly overcast selvage.

A Midnight Blue Field Framed in Burgundy

The palette is built on contrast. The ground is midnight blue at its darkest, the kind of blue-black that photographs as charcoal and looks like deep ink under lamplight, and every motif is lit against it: coral and salmon blossoms, soft sage and celadon leaves, warm camel and biscuit vinework, ivory highlights on the corner boteh, and small strikes of saffron gold at the flower centers. The main border shifts the temperature entirely, moving to a rich burgundy wine red that carries pale sage leaves and cream palmettes, so the rug frames itself in warmth and keeps the dark interior from reading heavy. The camel and tan guard stripes act as the bridge between the two, and the narrow slate blue minor bands echo the field color out to the very edge. In practice the rug behaves like a dark anchor with warm metallic light in it, which is why it sits so easily with wood floors, brass, leather and off-white walls.

Made in India in the Sarouk Tradition

This is an honest Indian weave, hand-knotted knot by knot on a cotton foundation by a team working a single loom, and India is now where most of the world's best contemporary hand-knotted work is produced. The Sarouk name here describes the design vocabulary, the dense floral spray and vine repeat with a burgundy palmette border, not the origin, and the workshop has followed it faithfully rather than coarsening the drawing to cover ground quickly. The back shows the pattern coming through with clear definition, the rows are even, and the 3/8" wool pile is level from end to end with good body underfoot, which is what allows a rug of this scale to lie flat and wear evenly for decades. For a buyer weighing this against other pieces in the broader family of an Oriental rug, the appeal is simple: traditional drawing, a genuine hand-knotted weave, and a palace length that almost nothing else on the market offers in new condition.