6'8" x 11'4" Kazak Caucasian Rug | Ivory Floral Medallion on Red Field | Semi-Antique, Excellent Condition

This is a hand-knotted Kazak rug from the Caucasus, 6'8" x 11'4", with a cotton foundation and a dense wool pile that still stands full and even across the whole field. It is a semi-antique piece in excellent condition, and it is drawn in an unusually soft, floral interpretation of the Kazak format: one big lobed ivory medallion floating on a red ground, with deep indigo panels filling the two ends. The long, gallery-like proportion is what makes it useful, since it covers a seating area or a long room without the bulk of a 9x12. Every rug we ship, including this Oriental rug, leaves Freeport with a certificate of authenticity recording origin, material, weave and size.

Design and Motifs

The center holds a wide lobed medallion on an ivory ground, outlined in dark navy and stepped at the edges rather than smoothly curved. Inside it sits a small indigo cartouche with an 8 petal rosette at the exact center, surrounded by rosettes, palmettes, tiny vases and slender floral sprays in rose, coral, gold and olive. Both ends of the field step down into large indigo panels planted with flowering stems, carnations, round blossoms and small crescent shapes, so the field reads almost like a garden seen from above. A narrow pearl and dot guard band separates the field from a short beige and sage band of repeating palmettes and scrolling vine at each end, and the main border is a wide beige ground carrying alternating red and gold rosettes, navy palmettes and leaf tendrils. Two slim indigo guard stripes and a final braided edge finish the drawing, and the whole layout stays symmetrical corner to corner across all 4 corners.

A Raspberry Red Field Against Ivory and Indigo

The field is a clear raspberry red, a touch cooler and more cherry than a brick or tomato red, and it is left mostly open so the color carries the room on its own. Against it, the medallion ground is a warm milky ivory that lifts slightly toward cream where the wool catches light, and the two end panels are a deep violet-leaning indigo that looks nearly purple in the close photographs and closer to navy at a distance. The borders shift the temperature completely: the main band is a soft beige to camel tone, quiet enough to frame the red without competing with it. Accents appear in small doses and do the real work, with coral orange, saffron gold, olive green, dusty rose, pale sage and chalk white picked out in the blossoms and rosettes. Dark navy outlining keeps every element crisp, and the ivory braided selvage and white fringe read clean in the corner detail.

Kazak Weaving in the Caucasus

Kazak is the name given to the weaving of the southern Caucasus, a mountain region where village looms turned out bold, long-wearing rugs with tough highland wool and strong natural reds and blues. Most Kazaks are purely geometric, which makes this piece interesting: the weaver kept the Kazak bones, the stepped medallion, the paneled ends and the heavy border framing, but filled them with floral drawing borrowed from town workshop patterns. The weave is medium in count, the wool is thick and slightly glossy, and the coin laid on the pile in one of the photographs shows how solid the knotting is, which is exactly why rugs from this tribal weaving belt survive generations of real use. Lines wander a hair here and there and the dye lots breathe slightly across the field, the honest marks of a hand-knotted village rug rather than a machine copy, and at 6'8" x 11'4" it has the scale to anchor a long living room while staying easy to move and rotate.