7'10" x 9'8" Chinese Oriental Rug | Burgundy All Over Floral Field | Hand-Knotted Wool

This is a finely drawn hand-knotted wool rug in a true room size, measuring 7'10" x 9'8" and sitting squarely in the most useful of all dimensions for American homes, which is why buyers so often search 8x10 area rugs before anything else. The pile is wool on a cotton foundation, with a deep burgundy field, a black main border and ivory guard stripes that keep the whole composition crisp from across a room. The condition is perfect: full pile, straight sides, clean fringe and no repairs, as the corner and fringe photographs show. Every rug we sell ships with a certificate of authenticity confirming that it is genuinely hand-knotted and describing its size, materials and origin.

Design and Motifs

The field carries a classic all over floral design rather than a central medallion, so the pattern reads evenly no matter where furniture lands on it. Curving vines run the full length of the rug and carry fan palmettes, open lotus blossoms, small 8 petal rosettes and long serrated leaves that curl back on themselves. The drawing is mirrored on both the long and short axes, which is what gives the field its calm order when you stand back from it. Framing the field are 5 bands: a narrow burgundy outer stripe, an ivory rosette guard, the wide black main border with its alternating palmette and blossom repeat, a second ivory guard, and a fine inner stripe that separates the border from the field. The 4 corners of the main border are resolved cleanly, with the pattern turning rather than colliding, which is the mark of a carefully drawn cartoon.

The Burgundy, Black and Ivory Palette

The ground is a deep burgundy, closer to wine and cranberry than to bright red, and the wool takes light in a way that shifts the tone slightly as you walk around it. Against that ground the vinework is drawn in ivory and warm sand, with blossoms picked out in salmon pink and dusty rose, and leaves shaded in a soft sage green that cools the whole scheme down. Small touches of near-black outline the flower centers and give each motif a clean edge. The main border is a very dark inky black that reads almost as blue-black in daylight, and the ivory guard stripes between the bands act as bright separators so the border never blurs into the field. It is a formal palette that anchors dark wood, brass and leather, and that also lifts a room with pale walls.

Chinese Weaving and Quality

This piece was hand-knotted in China, where workshops have built a long reputation for fine, evenly tensioned floral weaving on cotton warps and wefts. If you are weighing how a piece like this compares with other traditional handmade work, our guide on what makes an Oriental rug different from its neighbors is worth 5 minutes. The measuring photograph shows the back and the knot rows at scale: tight, regular and dense enough to hold the thin outlines and small blossom detail seen in the close-up. The wool is well spun and clipped at a medium pile height, which keeps the pattern sharp while leaving enough body underfoot for a busy room. Handle the side cords and fringe and you can feel that this is a properly finished piece, woven to last generations rather than seasons.