6'6" x 9'10" Turkish Bamboo Silk Rug | Burgundy Tabriz Medallion | Brand New

This is a brand new Turkish floor covering woven in bamboo silk, a deep burgundy field carrying a cream and turquoise medallion and framed by a wide gold-beige border. It sits right in the most usable footprint in the store, the 7x10 rug size, which covers a seating group or a 6 chair dining table without crowding the walls. The pile has the liquid sheen that bamboo silk is bought for, so the field reads almost black-cherry from one end of the room and bright wine from the other, and the ivory work in the medallion flashes as you walk past it. It is a high quality machine made piece, perfectly square, perfectly even across all 4 corners, with clean cotton-white fringe at both ends and no wear of any kind. Every rug we ship carries our certificate of authenticity documenting its Turkish origin, its bamboo silk pile and its machine-woven construction, so you know exactly what you own.

Design and Motifs

The drawing follows the classic Tabriz formula: an oval central medallion, matching pendants above and below it, and 4 corner spandrels that repeat the medallion palette so the whole field reads as one composition. Inside the medallion sits a small navy rosette with an 8 petal star at its core, ringed by turquoise cartouches and scrolling cream leafwork. The field around it is not open; it is packed edge to edge with an all over floral lattice of palmettes, serrated leaves, curling boteh paisleys and tiny blossoms carried on fine brown vinework, all of it mirrored precisely on both axes. The main border runs a gold-beige ground with large paisley and palmette cartouches linked by arabesque scrollwork, and it is fenced on each side by narrow guard stripes of blue meander and cream blossom. Because the point count is high, the small details hold their shape, which is what separates this from a flat printed look.

The Burgundy and Gold Color Story

The main color is a deep burgundy red, closer to wine and oxblood than to fire engine, and it shifts noticeably with the nap direction, going near-black in the low-light photographs and warming to cherry under direct light. Against it the border is a soft gold-beige, almost champagne, which lifts the whole rug and keeps the red from feeling heavy. The medallion and the pendants work in cream, ivory and a warm sand-gold, with bright turquoise blue used sparingly as the accent that pulls your eye to the center. Through the field there are smaller hits of pale blue, navy outlining, black for definition on the leaf tips and a soft brown running through the vines. It is a natural fit for anyone shopping red and burgundy rugs who wants warmth with a formal, polished finish rather than a rustic one.

Made in Turkey: Tabriz Drawing, Modern Loom

Turkey has been one of the great rug producing countries for centuries, and its modern mills now lead the world in high definition machine weaving, running very fine point counts that reproduce classic medallion cartoons with real accuracy. This piece is the good end of that industry: dense, heavy in the hand, with crisp outlines, a proper woven selvage and hand-finished fringe rather than a glued edge. The bamboo silk pile gives it the reflective surface and cool, smooth touch that buyers usually associate with far more expensive goods, and it takes the burgundy and gold dyes with unusual depth. As an Oriental rug in the broad sense, it delivers the traditional look at a fraction of handmade money, cleans easily, and holds its shape under furniture, which is exactly why this size and this design sell as fast as we can get them.