16' x 28'3" Jaipur Rug | Olive Green All Over Floral | Hand-Knotted Wool, Made in India

This is true palace scale. At 16' x 28'3" the rug covers 452 square feet, which puts it in the small group of oversize hand-knotted rugs built for ballrooms, great rooms and long formal halls rather than ordinary living rooms. It was hand-knotted in Jaipur with a wool pile on a cotton foundation, and the weave is even enough across nearly 30 feet of length that the drawing stays in register from one end to the other, which is the hardest thing to do at this size. The pile still stands upright with a soft sheen, the olive ground reads deep and warm, and the condition is excellent with no repairs. Every rug we sell ships with a certificate of authenticity confirming that it is hand-knotted, along with its origin, materials and measurements.

Design and Motifs

There is no central medallion here. The field carries a classical all over floral design, a repeating lattice of curved vine scrolls that link palmettes, open rosettes, tulip buds and serrated leaves in a pattern that simply keeps going the full length of the rug. Each lattice compartment holds a rosette at its center with paired blossoms and lanceolate leaves branching off the stems, and the repeat is drawn with enough variation in the individual flower heads that the surface never turns mechanical. The main border is wide and confident: large rust and gold rosettes alternating with scrolling acanthus leafwork, anchored at intervals by a full palmette, and framed on both sides by narrow guard stripes of small linked flowerheads. The corners resolve cleanly, the border turns without a break in the rhythm, and the whole layout suits the scale, because an all over repeat is what keeps a rug this long visually calm instead of top heavy.

A Field of Olive Green With Beige and Rust

The ground is olive green, a muted moss and khaki tone that shifts toward warm bronze where the light rakes across the pile and settles into a deeper sage where the nap runs the other way. Against it the drawing is worked in soft golden beige, cream and pale straw, with sage grey leaves and small accents of rust, terracotta and dark burgundy at the centers of the flowerheads. The main border reverses the scheme, putting a light golden beige ground under rust and gold rosettes, so the rug reads as a dark field inside a luminous frame. Deep olive outer guard stripes and the olive selvage close the composition, and the ivory fringe at both ends keeps the ends bright. It is an earth tone palette rather than a high contrast one, which is why it sits comfortably with walnut and oak floors, wood paneling, leather and brass, and why the rug does not fight whatever is already in a room of this size.

Woven in Jaipur, India

Jaipur, in Rajasthan, is one of the main centers of hand-knotted weaving in India, and India is where most of the world's good contemporary hand-knotted work is now made. The best Jaipur workshops keep the old loom discipline: cotton warp and weft strung tight, wool knots tied by hand row by row, the pile beaten down and then hand-clipped, so the finished rug is a genuine Oriental rug and not a machine product dressed up as one. A loom wide enough to carry 16 feet takes several weavers seated side by side, working in step for years on a single piece, and the back of this rug shows what that discipline bought: clear knot definition, straight sides and consistent tension over the full 28'3". The wool is good quality and takes light well, the clip is low enough to hold the fine detail of the vine work, and the rug is heavy and flat enough to lie perfectly in a room of banquet or ballroom proportions.