3' x 9'10" Silk Oriental Runner Rug | Teal Allover Tabriz Design | Brand New

A full silk pile on a narrow loom is an unusual thing to find in a long runner, and this one is the reason people fall for silk in the first place: the teal field changes tone as you walk the length of it, going deep and inky from one end and bright, almost turquoise, from the other. At 3' x 9'10" it is a true corridor length, 36 inches wide and just under 10 feet long, which makes it a natural hallway runner for a standard hall, a long entry, or the run alongside a bed. The weave is tight and even, the drawing is small in scale and never repeats carelessly, and the piece has never been laid down: the sales tag is still attached, as shown in the final photograph. Every rug we ship carries our certificate of authenticity confirming that it is hand-knotted, and the material and origin stated here.

Design and Motifs

The field carries a classic Tabriz allover drawing: a continuous lattice of thin scrolling vines that connects rows of 8 petal rosettes, split palmettes, serrated leaves, and small budding sprays, with no central medallion to interrupt the rhythm. Because there is no medallion, the pattern reads evenly no matter where a doorway or piece of furniture crosses it, which is exactly what you want in a runner. The ivory main border is drawn with large curling palmettes and turning vinework, flanked on both sides by navy guard stripes filled with tiny 4 petal blossoms and set off by a slim gold outline. Look at the corners in the close photographs and you will see the border resolves cleanly, with the vine turning the corner rather than being cut off, a mark of a properly mapped cartoon. The outer edge finishes in a light blue selvage band, and both ends are secured with long ivory fringe.

Color

Teal is the anchor, a saturated blue green that sits between peacock and deep ocean, and on silk it never stays flat: the pile catches light so the same field reads pale aqua in one direction and near navy in the other. Against that ground the weaver worked a warm palette, rust and burnt orange in the palmettes, saffron gold in the leaf tips and outlines, soft rose and burgundy in the flower hearts, sage green in the small leaves, and chalk ivory in the rosette petals and the little lily sprays. The main border reverses the scheme, putting ivory underneath the same rust, gold, teal and burgundy florals, so the rug frames itself in a pale line that keeps the teal from feeling heavy in a narrow space. Navy appears only in the guard bands and in the dark outlines around individual flowers, where it does the work of separating one color from the next. A lighter sky blue runs along the outer edge guard and shows again on the reverse.

Origin and Weaving Quality

This runner was hand-knotted in China, where a number of workshops have specialised for decades in fine silk weaving built on the classical Tabriz repertoire of scrolling vine and palmette. We call it honestly what it is: a Chinese hand-knotted Oriental rug, made on a cotton foundation with a 100% silk pile, and the quality argument stands on the weave rather than on a place name. The knot count here is high enough to render individual flower stems a single knot wide, which is the only way a small scale allover pattern stays legible instead of turning to mush, and the pile has been clipped low so the drawing stays crisp and the sheen is even across all 10 feet. Silk also wears differently from wool: it compresses less, shows footprints less, and holds color with a clarity that wool cannot match, which is why this style of hand-knotted silk rug suits a hall where the same few feet get walked every day.