7'9" x 10' Tibetan Wool and Silk Rug | Transitional Daisy and Sunflower Design | Brand New

This 7'9" x 10' Tibetan rug takes one idea and commits to it completely: oversized garden daisies and seed-head sunflowers drifting across an open burgundy field with no border to fence them in. It is hand-knotted on a cotton foundation in wool, with silk carrying the petals, discs and leaves, which is why the blooms flip from cream to gold as you cross the room while the ground stays matte and deep. It is brand new and never used, and it ships with a certificate of authenticity confirming it as a genuine hand-knotted Oriental rug rather than a machine-made copy. At this size it behaves like the most useful of the 8x10 Oriental rugs, big enough to hold a sofa group or a six-chair table without crowding the walls.

Design and Motifs

The drawing is transitional: a classical flowering vine scheme loosened into something closer to a botanical study. Large daisies with 16 to 20 saw-edged petals and round orange discs are scattered at different scales, some fully open and facing the viewer, others shown in profile or half closed like a carnation. Between them sit big seed-head sunflowers drawn tone-on-tone in olive and bronze, with rings of dots at the center and slim pointed petals radiating out, so they read as shadow blooms rather than focal points. Thin stems curve across the ground and carry single leaves, fat buds and small curled leaflets, each one outlined with a fine incised vein. There is no medallion, no repeat and no border, which is what makes this one of the more confident all-over floral designs of its type: the composition simply runs off all 4 sides, so the rug can be turned or shifted under furniture without breaking the layout.

The Burgundy, Beige and Orange Palette

The field is a saturated burgundy that moves between oxblood and a warmer brick red as the light travels, dark enough to anchor a room and warm enough to flatter wood floors. Against it the flowers work through a tight beige family: chalk cream at the petal tips, wheat and sand through the middle of the petals, and pale biscuit where the silk takes the light head on. The discs are the one loud note, a clear orange in some blooms and a softer apricot in others, with two or three flowers pushed fully into rust so they pull the eye across the field. Foliage is a muted sage drifting into olive and antique gold, and the shadow sunflowers are held only a shade or two off the ground color in bronze and brown. Nothing here is a primary, which is why this reads as an interior decorator's red rather than a holiday red, and why it works with both the burgundy rugs palette of leather and walnut and with cooler grey stone floors like the ones in these photographs.

Tibetan Weaving and Quality

Tibetan weaving is built on its own knotting method, where the yarn is looped continuously around a gauge rod and then cut, producing a pile that is noticeably plush and springy and that holds a crisp cut line between colors. You can see exactly that in the close-ups: the petal edges are clean and sharp where cream silk meets burgundy wool, with no blur or bleed, and the pile stands up thick and even across the whole 93" x 120" field. The folded corner shows a tidy, regular back and a well finished selvage, the signs of a workshop that controls its tension properly. Handspun highland wool gives the rug its durability and its slight luster, while the silk is used sparingly and only where it earns its keep, in the flower heads and leaves. For a buyer who wants the handmade construction and the long life of a knotted rug but a cleaner, more current drawing, this is exactly what the best modern and contemporary rugs are made to do.