5'9" x 8'9" Indian Oriental Rug | Black Boteh Panel Lattice | Lustrous Natural Wool, Brand New

This is a heavy, formally drawn hand-knotted Oriental rug woven in India in the antique traditional manner, measuring 5'9" x 8'9" with a jet black field, a deep burgundy main border and a lustrous natural wool pile that shifts between camel and apricot as you walk around it. The weave is tight and even, the selvages are clean, the ivory cotton fringe is full and untrimmed, and the rug has never been on a floor. At 5'9" x 8'9" it sits squarely in the most useful of the 6x9 Oriental rugs, large enough to anchor a seating group without swallowing a room. Every rug we sell ships with a certificate of authenticity confirming that it is genuinely hand-knotted, along with its origin, materials and measurements.

Design and Motifs

The field is an all over lattice of interlocking ogee panels, each one enclosing a paired boteh, the curved paisley motif that runs back through the Mughal court workshops. There is no central medallion; instead the panels repeat in staggered rows across the full width, outlined with a fine pearl beading of ivory dots that reads almost like piping against the black. Inside each panel sits a serrated palmette flanked by curling split leaves and small olive rosettes, and the negative spaces between panels fill with sunburst florettes and tiny scrolling vines. The main border carries alternating 8 petal rosettes and lobed black cartouches on burgundy, framed top and bottom by olive gold guard stripes of repeating leaf and bud. The drawing is symmetrical and disciplined, which is exactly what this kind of dense repeat demands: a single loose row would show immediately, and none do.

A Black Field Lit by Camel Gold and Burgundy

The ground is a true black, not charcoal, and it does the heavy lifting here by making every warm tone above it glow. The panel outlines and palmettes run through camel, honey gold and a soft apricot that pales almost to cream at the tips of the serrated leaves, while olive green leafwork and small rust red buds add depth without breaking the two tone rhythm. The main border is a dark burgundy, closer to wine than to brick, and the olive gold guard stripes bridge the two zones so the eye moves from field to border without a jolt. Because the wool is lustrous and the pile is cut at a medium height, the gold tones reverse in strike direction: from one end the rug reads deep and shadowed, from the other it reads bright and metallic. In a room with walnut floors, leather seating or dark millwork, the black field grounds the space while the gold keeps it from going heavy.

Woven in India, in the Jaipur Tradition

India, and the Jaipur weaving centers of Rajasthan in particular, is where most of the world's good contemporary hand-knotted work is now made, and this rug is a fair example of why. The workshops there inherited the classical repertoire of the Mughal ateliers, kept the hand-spun wool and cotton warp construction, and pair it today with careful dye work and consistent finishing. This piece is knotted on a cotton foundation with a natural wool pile that has the fatty, light-catching quality good highland fleece gives you, and the back shows a regular, legible knot grid with no pulling or waviness along the edges. It is a new rug in perfect condition, built to take traffic for decades, and priced as a working heirloom rather than a museum object.