2'8" x 22'5" Oushak Runner Rug | Sage Green & Gold All-Over Palmette Design | Extra Long Hallway Runner

A hand-knotted runner that measures 2'8" x 22'5" is a piece most buyers spend months hunting for, because hallways that long almost never find a single rug to cover them without seams or awkward gaps. This one is new, never walked on, and woven entirely by hand in natural wool on a cotton foundation, with a muted Oushak drawing that reads quiet from a distance and surprisingly detailed up close. The pile is soft and low, the selvedges are tight, and the ivory cotton fringe at both ends is hand-finished. Every rug we ship, this one included, arrives with a certificate of authenticity confirming that it is a genuine hand-knotted piece.

Design and Motifs

The field carries a classic Oushak all-over pattern rather than a central medallion, which is exactly what you want over 22 feet of length: the repeat continues without ever looking cut off, no matter where a doorway or a console table interrupts the view. Large curling leaf forms sweep out from the center line and meet in paired arcs, framing broad palmettes and 8 petal rosettes strung on a fine vine. Small starburst flowers and cypress-like sprigs fill the gaps between the larger forms, so the ground never looks empty. The border system is triple: a wide ivory main band of scrolling vinery and stylized blossoms, flanked by two narrow guard stripes of connected rosettes, all outlined in a soft brown that keeps the pattern legible against the pale ground.

The Grey, Sage and Gold Palette

This is a genuinely neutral rug, but not a flat one. The field is a warm grey taupe that shifts toward mushroom where the light falls across the pile and toward a cooler stone grey in shadow. The drawing sits on top of it in three tones: a creamy ivory that carries the outlines and the rosette centers, a soft wheat gold that fills the larger palmettes and the main border ground, and a pale sage green that appears in the leaf tips, vine tracery and scattered blossoms. Faint brown outlining pulls the whole thing together. There is no red, no strong navy, nothing that will fight an existing color scheme, which is why runners in this palette work so well beside oak floors, painted stair risers, white trim or grey-washed plank. Expect the tone to lift in daylight and warm noticeably under lamplight.

Woven in Pakistan in the Oushak Tradition

Oushak is a design language that began in western Anatolia, and today some of the most careful hand-knotted work in that tradition comes out of the weaving centers of Pakistan, where hand-spun wool, hand-knotting on cotton warps and softly washed dye lots remain standard practice. That is what this piece is: an honest, contemporary hand-knotted Oriental rug made in Pakistan, not an antique and not a machine copy. Look at the folded corner and the back tag images and you can see the knot rows sitting straight and even across a 32 inch width held for more than 22 feet, which takes real loom discipline over that distance. Because it was woven to length rather than cut down, both ends finish on a complete border, making it a proper extra long hallway runner for a corridor, gallery landing or long galley kitchen.