7'1" x 9'9" Oriental Rug | All Over Floral Design | Silky Wool, Brand New

A brand new, never used hand-knotted piece measuring 7'1" x 9'9", built on a cotton foundation with a high quality silky wool pile that carries real light. The golden beige field is drawn edge to edge with palmettes and scrolling vine, and it is held by a wide rustic burgundy border that gives the whole rug its weight. Turn it end for end and the field shifts from pale ivory to deep honey, which is what a lustrous long staple wool does when the nap runs toward you. At 85" x 117" this falls into the 7x10 Oriental rugs range, the size that anchors a full seating group with the front legs of the sofa and chairs on the wool. Every piece we ship leaves with a certificate of authenticity confirming it is genuinely hand-knotted, with its size, materials and origin recorded.

Design and Motifs

There is no central medallion here. The field carries a full all over floral design that repeats in mirrored pairs up the length of the rug: large shield shaped palmettes with a rosette set into the heart of each one, flanked by long curling split leaves that hook back on themselves like the arms of a lyre. Between the big forms the weaver has filled the ground with small blossoms, buds and thin connecting vine, so the field never goes empty. The wide border is drawn on the same logic but at a bigger scale, with fan shaped palmettes, urn like flower heads and broad serrated leaves swinging left and right along a continuous meandering stem, all outlined in gold against the burgundy. A narrow plain gold guard stripe separates field from border and repeats again at the outer edge, and the rug finishes in a hand-knotted ivory fringe at both ends. Look closely at the corners in the detail photos and you can see the border pattern resolve cleanly around the turn, which is a sign the cartoon was drawn properly rather than simply cut off.

The Beige, Burgundy and Olive Palette

The field is a warm beige that moves between pale ivory cream in the lighter passages and a full honey gold where the pile leans away, with soft abrash striping across the width that keeps a large open ground from looking flat or printed. The drawing on that field is done in three registers: a dark chocolate brown for the outlines and rosette centers, a faded rose and salmon pink for the petals, and a dusty olive green that appears in the leaf tips and in the small stems. The border is the rustic burgundy named on the spec sheet, a wine red with brown depth rather than a bright pillar box red, and against it the palmettes read apricot, buff gold and pale sage. Olive green is the quiet color of the whole piece, never dominant, but it is what stops the beige and burgundy from becoming a two tone rug. The overall effect is a softened, antique toned palette that sits comfortably with brown leather, walnut, brass and warm whites, and it reads considerably lighter in a room than the photographs of the border alone would suggest.

Origin and Weaving Quality

This rug was made in Pakistan, where the workshops have spent generations weaving classical floral cartoons on upright looms with the same hand-knotting method used across the wider Oriental weaving world. Pakistan is one of the few places still producing hand-knotted goods of this grade at scale, and the wool is the reason: a long staple fleece, hand carded and spun, then clipped to a medium pile that holds its silky sheen instead of going dull after a season. The back photograph shows the story clearly, with a fine, even cotton grid and knot nodes tight enough that the border drawing is fully legible from behind, which is the honest test of a good weave. Selvages are wrapped tight along both sides and the fringe is the extension of the warp, not sewn on afterward. If you are still weighing what separates a Persian piece from a broader Oriental rug, this one sits firmly in the second group: traditional drawing, genuine hand knotting, and a wool that will take decades of traffic and keep its color.