7'10" x 10'1" Jaipur Rug | Traditional All-Over Floral | Dense Lustrous Wool, Made in India

This is a heavy, tightly packed Jaipur piece in the classic Indo-traditional manner, hand-knotted in dense lustrous wool on a cotton foundation and never used. At 7'10" x 10'1" it sits squarely in the most useful room size we sell, which is why buyers shopping 8x10 area rugs keep coming back to this weave: the wool has real body underfoot, the pile carries a soft sheen under lamplight, and the drawing is far more disciplined than the machine-made look-alikes it competes against. It ships with a certificate of authenticity confirming that it is a genuine hand-knotted rug, along with its full specifications.

Design and Motifs

The field carries a mirrored all-over floral composition rather than a single medallion, built from large open palmettes, sunburst rosettes, cloud-band scrolls and long serrated saz leaves that curl back on themselves along a vine that never quite repeats. Small tulip heads, buds and paired boteh-like forms fill the ground between the larger blooms, and the whole layout is drawn on a vertical axis so the design reads correctly from either end of the room. The main border is a wide navy band of alternating spiky palmettes and turned leaf sprays, framed by a salmon vine guard and an outer gold band of small rosettes on a lattice. Five separate border stripes in total keep the edge from looking thin against the busy field, and the corners are properly resolved rather than cut off, which is a good tell on weave quality in a traditional Oriental rug of this type.

A Burgundy Field Framed in Navy and Gold

The ground is a deep burgundy, closer to wine and oxblood than to a bright red, and the lustrous wool makes it shift tone as you walk around it. Against that the ornament is worked in antique gold, warm apricot and a pale butter cream, with olive and sage green in the leaves and small strikes of ivory that outline the scrolling vines and lift them off the dark ground. The main border drops to a deep navy that in the close-up photographs takes on a slight teal cast under showroom light, filled with rose, salmon and cream flower heads. The outer band returns to soft gold, so the rug finishes light at the edge and anchors dark in the center. Practically, the burgundy and navy combination hides traffic extremely well, and the gold keeps the palette from going heavy in a room with warm wood floors or cream walls.

Jaipur Weaving and Build Quality

Jaipur, in Rajasthan, is one of the great modern hand-knotting centers, and India is now where most of the world's best contemporary hand-knotted work is produced. This piece shows why: the back is even and tight, the cotton warps are straight, the selvedges are firmly overcast and the ivory fringe is the continuation of the foundation rather than a sewn-on addition. The pile is cut medium-low, dense enough that the knot heads stay upright and the drawing stays crisp instead of blurring, and the wool has the greasy handle and natural luster that only comes from good fleece and honest washing. Nothing about it is distressed or antiqued: it is a new rug in perfect condition, built to be walked on for decades under a dining table or a full living room furniture set.