7'9" x 9'9" Chinese Wool Rug | French Country All-Over Floral | 200 KPSI, Brand New

This is a finely woven hand-knotted wool rug in a European floral idiom, measuring 7'9" x 9'9" and never placed in a home. The weave runs at roughly 200 knots per square inch, high enough to draw individual rose petals, curling leaf tips and tiny five point blossoms without the outlines going soft. The pile is wool on a cotton foundation, clipped at a medium height that keeps the drawing crisp underfoot, and the ends finish in hand-tied ivory fringe as shown in the closing photographs. Every rug we ship carries a certificate of authenticity confirming it is genuinely hand-knotted, along with its measurements, materials and origin.

Design and Motifs

There is no medallion here. The field is a continuous garden, the kind of all-over floral rug that reads as a French country textile rather than a formal court layout. Full-blown peonies and cabbage roses sit at the center of loose bouquets, surrounded by daisies, hydrangea clusters, buds on fine stems and long feathered leaves that bend in every direction. The drawing is naturalistic rather than stylized, so each flower is shaded across 3 or 4 tones instead of being filled flat. The main border repeats a garland of flowers on a scrolling acanthus vine, framed on both sides by narrow guard bands: a cream chain of small rosettes on the outside, and a dark cartouche band set with 8 petal stars on the inside. Corners are resolved properly, with the border pattern turning cleanly instead of being cut off, which is a straightforward tell of a well-drafted cartoon.

A Mocha Brown Ground With Rose and Sage

The ground is a warm mocha brown with a faintly mauve cast, softer and dustier than a chocolate or coffee brown, and it carries the whole palette. Against it the roses run from deep raspberry and brick red through mid dusty rose to a pale blush that nearly meets the cream. The largest blossoms are ivory and clotted cream with rose-shaded centers, and they are what your eye finds first from across a room. Foliage is a muted sage and olive green with pockets of deep pine and near-black outlining, which is what gives the field its depth instead of letting it flatten into pink. The border repeats the same mocha ground so the frame reads as one tone with the field, while the cream guard stripe and the small gold-toned accents at the very edge lift the outline. It is a quiet, low-contrast color scheme that sits easily with wood floors, antique furniture and warm neutral walls.

Weaving Quality and Origin

This piece was made in China, in the workshop tradition that has produced fine hand-knotted floral weaving for export since the early 20th century, adapting Aubusson and Savonnerie style drawing to the knotted pile technique. Understanding where a piece like this sits in the wider family of handmade weaving is worth a few minutes, and our guide to Oriental rug terminology explains the distinctions in plain language. At approximately 200 knots per square inch this sits well above the commercial grade, and the density is visible in the ruler photograph: tight, even rows with no gaps and a straight, well-tensioned selvage. The result is a rug that holds its shape, resists crushing in traffic lanes, and keeps its detail legible year after year. In a room scaled for 8x10 area rugs, this 7'9" x 9'9" piece will carry a seating group with the front legs of the sofa and chairs resting on the pile.