2'11" x 17'7" Persian Hamedan Long Runner Rug | All-Over Diamond Lattice | Fire Orange & Black

This is a genuinely long piece: 17'7" of hand-knotted wool only 2'11" wide, woven in one unbroken run on a narrow village loom in the Hamedan district of western Persia. The field carries a repeating diamond lattice in black over fire orange, framed by a deep navy border, and the drawing holds its rhythm from one end of the rug to the other, which is far harder to achieve over 17 feet than over 8. The 3/8" wool pile is dense and springy underfoot, the handle is firm, and the condition is excellent, making it a practical choice for a long hallway runner or a stair landing that swallows ordinary rugs. Every rug we ship, including this one, leaves Freeport with a certificate of authenticity recording origin, materials and construction.

Design and Motifs

There is no medallion here. The whole length is given to an all-over repeat: a trellis of black diamonds laid over the open field, each cell filled with a small hooked rosette, a stepped box motif or a pair of stylized leaves, with tiny ivory and rust dots lighting the junctions. Look closely at the detail shots and you can see how the weaver alternated the fillers row by row, so the lattice never reads as mechanical. The main border is a navy ground carrying angular ivory vine hooks and stray floral heads, flanked on both sides by narrow guard stripes of ivory zigzag and camel gold reciprocal arrows. That layered border system does the work of a frame, pulling the eye down the corridor rather than stopping it. It is classic village drawing, and if you like this kind of straight-line, repeating geometric Persian rug design, this runner is a textbook example of it.

Color Palette

The ground is a fire orange that reads warm terracotta in daylight and deepens toward brick red under lamplight, and in the full-length photos you can see gentle bands of abrash where the wool took the dye at slightly different strengths, a natural trait of hand-dyed village yarn. Over that sits the near-black lattice, so dark it only shows its navy undertone in close-up, giving the pattern its graphic snap. Ivory supplies the relief: rosette centers, the zigzag guard stripe and the small arrowheads in the inner band. A camel gold stripe runs just inside the selvage, and scattered accents of rust, soft rose and a few points of cool blue appear inside the lattice cells. The combination sits easily on wood, stone or warm neutral paint, and it is a strong candidate if you are shopping orange and rust Persian rugs for a space that needs warmth without pastel softness.

Hamedan Origin and Weave

Hamedan, in the highlands of western Persia, is the largest weaving region in the country, with hundreds of surrounding villages supplying rugs under the city name. The weave is single wefted on a cotton foundation, which produces the slightly ribbed, firm back visible in the final photograph, and the local highland wool is coarse-stapled and high in lanolin, the reason Hamedan pieces wear so well in traffic lanes and resist crushing. Narrow village looms are the practical reason long runners like this one come from the region in the first place: the width is fixed by the loom, the length is limited only by the weaver's patience, and a 17'7" run represents many months at the same frame. Judged as village work this is honest, tight, well-finished weaving with straight sides, intact selvages and an even pile across its full length.