7'10" x 9'10" Indian Oriental Rug | Traditional All-Over Floral | Burgundy & Gold, New

This is a full room-size traditional Oriental rug at 7'10" x 9'10", hand-knotted in India on a cotton foundation with a 100% wool pile, and it has never been on a floor. The drawing is classical: a deep burgundy field carrying a continuous floral lattice, framed by a wide gold main border and a black outer band of rosettes. What sells this piece in person is the wool. The pile has a real sheen under light, visible in the close-up shots where the gold palmettes glow against the wine ground, and the knot count is tight enough to hold small details like the tiny cream tendrils and the black-outlined leaf tips. It ships with a certificate of authenticity confirming it as a genuine hand-knotted rug, and the original inventory tag (LA 52855) is still attached. If you are shopping the 8 x 10 rug range, this is the traditional end of it, priced as new stock rather than as an antique.

Design and Motifs

There is no central medallion here. The field is an all-over design, built from rows of large rounded palmettes and 8 petal rosettes linked by a thin scrolling vine, with long serrated leaves curving between them and small cloudband scrolls repeating down the center axis. The repeat is drawn in mirrored pairs, so the pattern reads the same from either long side, and the weaver carried it straight through to the edges rather than stopping it at a frame, which is why the rug feels larger than its 94" x 118" footprint. Three borders surround the field: a narrow inner guard of cream and gold cruciform blossoms outlined in black, then the wide gold main border with its palmette and vase forms and black arabesque hooks, then the black outer band of evenly spaced flower heads. The corners are resolved cleanly, with the main border motif turning properly at all 4 corners instead of being cut off, which is the first thing to check on a traditional floral rug.

A Burgundy, Gold and Olive Color Palette

The field is a deep burgundy that leans plum in the close-up photographs, a cooler wine tone rather than a bright brick red, and it darkens or lifts noticeably depending on which direction you view the pile from. Against it, the floral work is carried in a warm antique gold, honey and soft apricot, with secondary drawing in olive green, sage, cream and pale straw, so the field never reads as only two colors. Black is used sparingly and deliberately: as outlines around the leaf tips and blossom centers, as the hooked arabesques in the gold border, and as the full ground of the outer band, where it pulls the whole design tight. The gold main border is the brightest element in the rug and the color most people will notice first from across a room. Small touches of rust, dusty rose and pale blue appear inside the individual flower heads. The selvage is finished in burgundy and the fringe is natural ivory cotton.

Made in India: Weaving and Quality

India is where most of the world's good contemporary hand-knotted work is now made, and this rug is a clear example of why. It was woven knot by knot on a vertical loom over a cotton warp and weft, with a wool pile clipped at a medium height that leaves the design crisp without going thin. The back, visible in the folded corner photograph, shows even rows, a regular knot, and no machine backing, glue or tufting: the pattern on the reverse reads as clearly as it does on the face, which is the standard test for genuine hand-knotting. The workshops working in this classical floral idiom draw on centuries of court carpet tradition and weave to a consistent, high-quality standard, and this piece was finished, washed and never used. For a buyer who wants a traditional formal look in an 8 x 10 footprint without antique-market pricing, this is the category that delivers it.