4'10" x 19'10" Kazak Runner Rug | Yakash Triple Medallion Design | Red & Sky Blue, Excellent Condition

At 4'10" x 19'10", this Yakash Kazak covers the kind of long, narrow floor that most rugs simply cannot reach: a full-length hallway, a gallery corridor, or a wide upstairs landing that runs the length of the house. Nearly 5 feet across, it behaves like a proper room rug stretched long rather than a thin strip of trim, and the design was drawn to suit that proportion, with 3 full medallions spaced evenly down a brick red field. The pile is wool on a cotton foundation, hand-knotted with a firm, even handle and a low, tight clip, and the rug is in excellent condition throughout with clean, straight selvages and full original fringe. It ships with a certificate of authenticity recording the weave, materials and origin.

Design and Motifs

The layout is a 3 medallion repeat: sky blue at each end, ivory in the center, each one a stepped and cusped shell outlined in fine ivory pearling. Inside every medallion sits a smaller cartouche rimmed in a red latch hook fringe that reads almost like a sunburst, and within that a navy or red inner panel carrying 8 petal stars and small cross florals. The red ground between the medallions is worked with flowering shrub sprays, tulip bouquets, serrated palmette leaves, rosette roundels on short stems and scattered 8 point stars, all drawn with the straight lines, angled shoulders and stepped corners that define Kazak work among geometric rug designs. The wide main border is ivory and runs a lattice of quartered cross rosettes alternating red and navy, framed by sky blue guard stripes of small diamonds and closed at each end by a reciprocal sawtooth band.

Color: Brick Red Field with Sky Blue and Ivory Medallions

The field is a warm brick red, slightly tomato rather than burgundy, with the gentle tonal movement across the width that comes from hand-knotting in small dye lots. Against it the two sky blue medallions read cool and light, a soft denim tone shading paler where the wool catches the light, while the central ivory medallion lifts the middle of the runner and keeps a 19'10" length from feeling heavy. Deep navy does the drawing work in the inner cartouches, the border rosettes and the small star fillers, and clean ivory outlines every medallion edge and border stripe so the shapes stay crisp. Sage and olive green appear in the serrated leaves and shrub stems, with touches of soft peach and cream in the flower heads. The overall balance is red and blue in near equal weight, cooled by ivory, which makes the rug sit comfortably on both warm wood and pale stone flooring.

Kazak Weaving in Pakistan

The Kazak vocabulary comes from the Caucasus, where village weavers built their rugs from bold medallions, latch hook edging and heavily geometric filler drawing. That tradition is now carried on by workshops in Pakistan, which together with India produce most of the world's good contemporary hand-knotted work, and the Yakash pattern is one of their more refined Kazak variations: finer drawing than a classic village piece, more medallions, more small motif detail in the field. This runner shows the marks of careful workshop weaving, with an even knot count from end to end over nearly 20 feet, no drift in the width, and a dense wool pile that keeps its luster under traffic. If you are weighing a piece like this against Persian village weaving, our guide on Oriental rug and Persian rug differences explains where each one earns its value.