16'2" x 23'8" Jaipur Oriental Rug | Ivory All-Over Floral Field | Oversize Palace Size, Made in India

This is a true palace piece: 16'2" x 23'8" of hand-knotted wool in a pale ivory and beige palette, woven in the Jaipur tradition of northern India and never laid in a home. At 194" by 284" it covers a great room or a formal dining room end to end, and it is one of the few oversized rugs in this size range that stays quiet enough to sit under heavy furniture without fighting the room. A single weaving of this scale takes a wide loom, a long run of matched wool and a team working together for well over a year. Every piece ships with a certificate of authenticity confirming the hand-knotted construction, the wool pile and the Indian origin.

Design and Motifs

The field carries an all-over floral lattice rather than a single medallion, which is the right choice at this scale because the pattern keeps repeating no matter where a sofa or a dining table lands on it. Curved vines link small lozenge medallions, each one filled with an 8 petal rosette, and between them sit broad curled acanthus leaves, fan-shaped palmettes and clusters of tiny berries. The drawing is loose and open, closer to a garden in outline than a dense botanical study, so the ivory ground is always visible through the pattern. Three borders frame it: a wide main band of standing lily and palmette forms on olive, flanked by an ivory guard stripe of small animal and vine figures, and an outer zigzag ribbon that runs the full 284" length.

A Quiet Ivory Field With an Olive Frame

The ground is ivory moving into warm beige, the kind of pale tone that picks up the color of whatever light falls on it. Drawn over it are soft sage and olive greens for the leaves and lattice, antique gold for the small medallions, and dusty rose and taupe for the secondary blossoms. Small points of deep burgundy appear at the base of the flower stems and inside the rosettes, and those few dark notes are what keep the whole thing from going flat. The main border is the strongest color on the rug, a muted olive gold that reads almost chartreuse in daylight, with ivory lilies and pale pink buds drawn across it. Nothing here is saturated; the palette is built for rooms with plenty of natural light and neutral walls.

Jaipur Weaving and Construction

Jaipur, in Rajasthan, is one of the centers that carried classical court drawing into modern hand-knotted production, and India today is where most of the world's best contemporary hand-knotted work is made. The back of this rug, visible in the folded corner photograph, shows a clean even knot line with the pattern reading clearly through to the cotton foundation, which is the mark of a workshop piece rather than a rushed commercial run. The pile is a full 3/8" of wool, cropped level, dense enough to take traffic in a large open room for decades. If you are weighing this against a Persian weaving, the differences in drawing, wool and dye tradition are worth reading about in our guide to what separates a Persian rug from an Oriental rug.