2'10" x 23'6" Persian Hamedan Rug | Extra-Long Navy Floral Runner | New, Never Used

Runners this long are not woven to order and they do not turn up often. At 23'6" of continuous hand-knotted wool and only 34" wide, this piece was made for a corridor that most rugs simply cannot cover without a seam or a break, and it reads as one uninterrupted composition from end to end. The pile is hand-spun wool at 3/8", the foundation is cotton, and the weave carries the firm, tight handle that village looms around Hamedan are known for. It has never been used, never been on a floor, and the ends and sides are as the weaver finished them. Every rug we ship travels with a certificate of authenticity recording origin, materials, size and hand-knotted construction, so what you read here is documented rather than described. If you are measuring a long entrance passage or a gallery wall of doors, this is the uncommon case where an extra long hallway runner exists in a single authentic Persian piece.

Design and Motifs

The field runs as a chain of lobed ivory medallions set on the dark ground, each one centered on a small rosette and framed by curling split-leaf forms that lean outward like wings. Between the medallions the weaver filled the ground with upright floral sprays, carnations, open roses and tulip buds on thin stems, together with blue palmettes and fine vine scroll that keeps the eye moving down the length rather than stopping at any single point. The repeat is drawn freehand rather than mechanically copied, so the sprays shift slightly from one panel to the next, a detail you can follow in the close-up photographs. Five bands make up the border: a wide rose red main band carrying a connected flower and leaf meander, flanked by reciprocal vine guard stripes and a narrow outer stripe in navy. The 4 corners resolve the main band cleanly with ivory corner flowers, which is a sign of a weaver working from a well drawn plan over a very long warp.

The Navy Field, Rose Borders and Ivory Lights

The ground is a very dark navy that reads almost black in low light and opens into true blue where the pile catches the sun, which is exactly the depth collectors look for in a navy blue Persian rug. Against it the ivory medallions and corner flowers act as lights, so the runner never looks heavy despite its length. The main border is a warm rose red with a brick undertone, softer than a pure fire red, and it is the color that will tie the piece to wood floors and to doors. Inside the drawing you get a full secondary palette: sky blue and deep indigo in the palmettes, salmon and rose pink in the flower heads, soft camel and chocolate brown in the leaves and stems, with small touches of sage green and pale peach in the rosette centers. The wool takes dye with a slight variation in tone from row to row, visible as a gentle movement across the field, and that is the fingerprint of hand-spun yarn rather than any flaw.

Hamedan: Village Looms of Western Persia

Hamedan sits in western Persia at the foot of Mount Alvand, on the site of ancient Ecbatana, and it has supplied more hand-knotted rugs to the world than almost any other Persian name. Hundreds of villages weave in and around the city, each with its own hand, and the shared character is practicality: a cotton foundation, a single weft between knot rows that gives the rug a firm flat back, and local highland wool that is greasy with lanolin and resists crushing underfoot. That combination is why Hamedan work holds up in traffic corridors for generations while finer city weaves would show a path. This runner is a particularly ambitious piece of that tradition, since keeping a 23'6" warp even in tension and a 34" width true along its whole run is harder than weaving a room-size rug. You can see the result in the straight sides, the square ends and the uninterrupted border rhythm, and you can judge the weave yourself in the ruler photograph, where the knot rows and the wool face of the pile are shown at full scale. More of this weaving group is gathered in our collection of Persian Hamedan rugs.