16' x 24'7" Jaipur Oriental Rug | Ivory All Over Floral | Oversize Palace Size, Brand New

This is a true palace piece: 16 feet wide by 24 feet 7 inches long, hand-knotted in wool on a cotton foundation, and drawn in the classic Jaipur manner with an ivory field carrying an all over floral repeat from selvage to selvage. It covers close to 400 square feet, which puts it in a category most rooms never call for, and the drawing was clearly planned at that scale rather than stretched to fit it. The pile stands a soft 3/8", the wool has a gentle sheen in raking light, and the piece is brand new and never used. If your search has been for genuinely oversize hand-knotted Oriental rugs in a light, quiet palette, this is the format and the color story that almost never come together. A certificate of authenticity is included with purchase.

Design and Motifs

There is no central medallion here. Instead the weaver worked a balanced all over floral design built on large curling acanthus leaves, split palmettes, lotus heads and thin scrolling vines that link one element to the next without ever crowding the ground. Set into that lattice are small gold diamond cartouches, each one filled with an 8 petal rosette and flanked by tiny leaf and bud figures, repeating in staggered rows across the whole length of the field. Between them run delicate sprays of small round blossoms on hairline stems, the kind of filler drawing that only reads properly on a rug this large. The border system is deep and layered: a wide tortilla brown main band of ivory palmettes and pendant lotus flowers, framed on both sides by ivory guard stripes carrying a crisp burgundy zigzag and small leaf figures, then a final narrow gold and rose trefoil stripe at the outer edge. The 4 corners are resolved cleanly, the field pattern meets the border without an abrupt cut, and the whole layout is drawn with the curved line and open spacing that separates serious workshop production from commercial goods.

Ivory, Tortilla Brown and the Quiet Palette

The field is ivory, closer to warm cream than to white, and it holds the light rather than bouncing it back. Everything drawn on it sits within a narrow tonal range: tortilla brown and soft antique gold in the leaves and cartouches, dusty rose and mauve in the palmettes and blossoms, a few points of deep burgundy used only as outline, and pale straw and oyster tones in the smaller filler figures. The main border is the deepest value in the rug, a mellow tortilla brown that frames the field and gives the piece its architecture from across a large room. Because no two colors fight each other, the rug reads as one continuous soft surface at standing distance and only reveals its full flower count when you kneel down to it. That makes it unusually easy to build a room around, and it puts the piece squarely among ivory and beige area rugs that work with plaster, limestone, walnut and pale upholstery without demanding a single strong accent color.

Jaipur Weaving and Knot Quality

Jaipur, in Rajasthan, is one of the great weaving centers of northern India, and India is where most of the world's best contemporary hand-knotted work is now produced. Say that plainly: the looms, the wool sorting, the dye houses and the finishing shops in and around Jaipur turn out floral workshop pieces at a standard that stands comparison with anything being woven today, which is exactly why so much high-end decorative production has moved there. A rug this wide has to be woven on a purpose-built loom by several weavers working side by side across the same row, and the discipline that requires shows in this piece: the field pattern stays on register the full 24 feet 7 inches, the borders hold even width, and the selvages and fringe are finished tidily, as the corner photograph shows. The pile is a sensible 3/8", short enough to keep the fine drawing legible and dense enough to take traffic in a ballroom-scale space. If you want the wider background on how this kind of weaving relates to the Oriental rug tradition as a whole, our guide to what makes an Oriental rug different is worth reading before you buy at this size.