17'4" x 25'6" Persian Palace Rug | All Over Floral and Vase Design | Brand New, Never Used

Rugs at 17'4" x 25'6" are not made for ordinary rooms, and they are not woven casually. This one covers roughly 440 square feet in a single unbroken piece of hand-knotting, with a tawny brown field that holds an all over floral drawing from one end to the other and never breaks rhythm. It has never been on a floor: the pile stands a full 3/8" high, the ends and sides are original and intact, and the woven tag on the reverse still carries the original inventory number. Pieces in this class come to market once in a long while, and we place them with buyers who have a ballroom, a great room, a lobby or a long formal hall to fill. Among oversize Persian rugs this is close to the practical ceiling of what a loom can carry. A certificate of authenticity is issued with the rug.

Design and Motifs

There is no central medallion. The field is a true all over design, built from thin curling vines that carry rosettes, serrated leaves, buds and small palmettes across the whole surface, with slender flowering vases set at intervals so the eye has somewhere to rest. Look closely at the close-up images and you will find 8 and 12 petal rosettes outlined in navy, paired leaves turning back on themselves, and the occasional larger blossom drawn in ivory against the brown ground. The border system runs 5 bands deep: a wide ivory main border of leafy scroll and palmette, flanked by narrow guard stripes in camel and rust, and an outer band that carries small walking animal figures, deer and birds among the flowers, which is the detail collectors tend to notice last and like most. The drawing stays disciplined at every corner, with the border turning cleanly rather than being cut off, a sign that the cartoon was worked out properly before the first knot went down.

A Tawny Brown Field with Ivory, Gold and Navy

The field color is the reason to own this rug. It is a warm tawny brown with a camel undertone, closer to caramel and dried apricot than to chocolate, and it shifts gently as you walk around it because the wool has real luster. Against that ground the drawing is picked out in three ranges: ivory and pale cream for the larger blossoms and the main border, soft gold and honey for the vinework, and a deep navy blue used sparingly for outlines, rosette centers and the small floral heads that give the field its depth. A few darker chocolate brown accents appear in the border scroll, and a muted sage green runs through some of the leaves. It is a neutral rug in the useful sense: it grounds a room without fighting furniture, and it reads gold in lamplight and soft rose brown in daylight. Rooms with wood paneling, stone floors, cream walls or dark antique furniture take it particularly well.

Persian Weaving at Palace Scale

A loom that can hold 17'4" of width is a permanent structure, and a rug this long occupies it for years with several weavers working shoulder to shoulder at the same row. The discipline that requires is visible in the finished piece: the field pattern keeps the same scale from the first foot to the last, the borders stay parallel, and the rug lies square rather than bowing, which is where most oversize weaving fails. The back, shown in the photographs, is an even cotton foundation with a clean, legible knot grid and no repairs, patches or reweaves. The wool is hand-spun and takes dye unevenly at the microscopic level, which is exactly what gives the field its living, breathing tone instead of the flatness of a machine product. At 3/8" the pile is deep enough to feel substantial underfoot and heavy enough to stay put across a large span, and this piece ships free anywhere in the 50 states despite its weight.