2'7" x 25'9" Kazak Runner Rug | Ivory Caucasian Diamond Medallions | Brand New Hand-Knotted Wool

Runners this long are rarely found on the shelf, and almost never brand new. This one measures 2'7" x 25'9", nearly 26 feet of hand-knotted wool on a single warp, woven in one continuous piece with no joins and no splicing. It was made to cover a full corridor or a gallery wall of doors in one unbroken run, which is exactly the problem most buyers of long hallway runner rugs are trying to solve. The pile is a 3/8" fine wool with a dry, slightly lustrous handle, the ends are finished with hand-tied ivory fringe, and the rug has never been laid down: no traffic lanes, no pile crush, no touch-ups. Every rug we ship travels with a certificate of authenticity that records the size, weave, materials and design shown here.

Design and Motifs

The field runs as a vertical column of alternating medallions in the Caucasian Kazak idiom: a hooked diamond framed in navy with a stepped, serrated outline, then an open 8 petal rosette with radiating red palmette arms, repeating all the way down the 25'9" length. Between the medallions the weaver filled the ivory ground with 8 pointed stars, small navy quatrefoils, paired tulip heads rising from a blue cloud base, and scattered red rosettes, so there is no dead space anywhere along the run. Everything is drawn on the diagonal and the straight line: no curved vine, no shading, pure village geometry read off a memorized pattern rather than a detailed cartoon. Three borders carry the sides. The main band holds alternating red lozenges and 8 petal star rosettes on ivory, flanked inside by a navy ribbon of ivory and red V forms and outside by a pale blue guard stripe of tiny crosses and hooks. The corners resolve cleanly, which on a rug this long is a real test of the weaver's count.

A Soft Ivory Ground With Brick Red and Navy

The ground is a warm ivory that reads closer to clotted cream than white, with a faint oatmeal cast where the natural wool varies from knot to knot. Against it the weaver worked two dominant tones: a brick red that leans slightly toward tomato in the medallion arms, and a deep indigo navy used for the medallion frames, the inner ribbon border and the small field accents. Two quieter colors do the softening work. A pale sky blue appears in the rosette petals, the guard stripe and the leaf tips, and a muted soft rose fills the medallion centers and some of the border lozenges, keeping the red from turning harsh. A dark cocoa outline separates the borders from the field. Because the field is light and the drawing is open, the runner brightens a dim corridor instead of darkening it, and the ivory ground makes it easy to sit beside oak, walnut or painted trim.

Kazak Weaving, Caucasian Tradition, Made in Pakistan

The Kazak design comes from the southern Caucasus, where village weavers built bold geometric medallions out of straight lines and hooks. Today the finest hand-knotted Kazak work is woven in Pakistan, where workshops have kept the old drawings, the vegetal dye palette and the hand-spun wool quality while weaving to tighter, more even standards than most of the originals. This piece shows that discipline: a level selvage down 309 inches, consistent knot rows visible on the back, and a clipped 3/8" pile that lets the geometry stay crisp. It is a true Oriental rug in the collector sense, hand-knotted on a cotton foundation with a wool pile, and a durable one, since a dense wool pile over a tight foundation is what survives a hallway that gets walked a hundred times a day.