5' x 5'2" Round Oriental Rug | All-Over Floral Vine Design | Fine Wool with Silk Highlights

A true circle in a formal traditional drawing is harder to find than most buyers expect, and this hand-knotted 5' x 5'2" round is a clean example of it. The field is a deep red, nearly burgundy in the photographs, carried edge to edge by a curving vine that holds rosettes, palmettes and small serrated leaves, and the whole circle is framed by a black border of blossoms and an ivory guard stripe. The pile is fine wool with silk highlights that catch the light in the flower heads, worked over a cotton foundation, and the hand-tied ivory fringe follows the curve of the rug all the way around. Condition is excellent, with full pile and crisp drawing throughout. As with every hand-knotted Oriental rug we sell, it ships with a certificate of authenticity recording its size, materials, construction and origin.

Design and Motifs

There is no medallion here. Instead the weaver has run a continuous vine scroll across the entire round field, so the pattern radiates outward in gentle concentric curves that follow the shape of the rug rather than fighting it. On that vine sit three repeating flower types: round gold-centered rosettes with sage and ivory petals, open ivory blossoms with a small rose-red eye, and tight clusters of tiny cream buds that read almost like blossom sprays. Between them the ground is filled with slender serrated leaves, 4 petal quatrefoils and small rice-grain flecks, which keeps the red from ever looking empty. The main border is drawn on black and alternates large lobed floral cartouches at regular intervals with paired blossoms and curling leaves, and it is bracketed on both sides by narrow ivory guard stripes carrying a meandering vine. A plain red band finishes the outer edge, just inside the fringe, giving the border a frame of its own.

A Deep Red Field Against Black and Ivory

The field colour is a dark, slightly wine-toned red that shifts with the light, reading brick-warm in the overhead shots and closer to true burgundy in the close-up of the pile. That depth is what makes the rest of the palette work: the sage and olive greens of the leaves stay soft rather than bright, the ivories look creamy instead of stark white, and the camel-gold flower centres glow where the silk highlights sit. Touches of soft rose and pale blue-grey appear inside individual blossoms, small enough that you only notice them standing over the rug. The border is a genuine black ground, not a washed charcoal, and it does the heavy lifting visually, separating the busy field from the ivory guard stripes and the pale fringe. For rooms built around red and burgundy rugs, this is the classic formal reading of the colour, warm under lamplight and very forgiving of traffic.

Weaving Quality and Chinese Hand-Knotted Workshops

This rug was hand-knotted in China, where workshop weaving in the traditional Oriental floral idiom has been done to a high standard for decades, with fine wool pile, silk accents and a tightly woven cotton foundation. The back photograph tells you most of what you need to know: even rows, small tight knots, no gaps or wandering lines, and a selvedge that holds its shape right around the circle. Weaving a round is genuinely more demanding than weaving a rectangle, because the knot count has to be recalculated row by row as the width grows and then shrinks, and any error shows immediately as a flat spot or an oval. Here the circle is honest and the border width stays consistent all the way around, which is the mark of a disciplined loom. Among round hand-knotted rugs at this scale, a well drawn all-over floral in this condition is the piece people hold out for.