7' x 10' Turkish Heriz Rug | All-Over Geometric Floral Design | Salmon Red Field, Ivory Border

This is a hand-knotted Turkish Heriz woven in wool on a cotton foundation, a clean, well-drawn piece with a salmon red field and a wide ivory border that reads bright in daylight and warm under lamps. The weaver skipped the central medallion and filled the whole field instead, which is the harder version of the Heriz design to draw and the easier one to live with, since nothing sits in the middle to be covered by a coffee table. At 7' x 10' it lands in the most useful room size there is, and if you are shopping across the category you can compare it with our other 7x10 Oriental rugs. The pile stands a full 3/8" with no low spots, the ivory cotton fringe is intact at both ends, and every rug ships with a certificate of authenticity confirming it is genuinely hand-knotted.

Design and Motifs

The field is a true all-over composition built on a lattice of hooked stems, angular palmettes, serrated saw-tooth leaves and small paired rosettes, all drawn with the straight lines and stepped outlines that define the Heriz style. Look at the ends of the field and you will find the large anchor-shaped palmettes with 4 paired rosette clusters that frame the composition top and bottom, plus stepped corner brackets that imply a medallion without ever closing one. Between the big forms the ground is peppered with small filler motifs: hexagonal blossoms, arrowheads, tiny vases and 8 petal rosettes, so there is almost no empty red anywhere. The wide ivory main border runs a repeating sequence of shield medallions, cylindrical vase forms and turtle-style palmettes joined by a blue vine, with a narrow reciprocal trefoil guard on the inside and a small floral guard on the outside. If you like this angular vocabulary, the rest of our geometric rugs follow the same drawing logic.

A Salmon Red Field Against Ivory and Slate Blue

The ground is a soft salmon red, closer to brick and terracotta than to a hard crimson, and it carries a gentle variation across the width that comes from the wool taking dye at slightly different rates. Against it, the motifs are worked mainly in a dusty slate blue and a muted teal green, with a deep navy used for outlining and small accents of mustard gold, rose pink, chocolate brown and clean ivory. The main border switches the balance completely: an ivory ground with blue vinework, rose and salmon medallions, gold rosette centers and dark brown detailing, so the border throws a bright frame around the warm field. A narrow teal green guard stripe separates field from border and keeps the two from blurring into each other. In a room this palette sits comfortably with oak or walnut floors, cream walls, brass and leather, and it will not fight existing upholstery in navy, camel or olive.

Woven in Turkey: Heriz Drawing, Anatolian Wool

Turkish weavers have worked the Heriz vocabulary for generations, and the village looms of Anatolia are a natural fit for it: the design is built from straight lines and stepped diagonals, which is exactly what a sturdy wool-on-cotton weave renders best. This is a moderate-count village weave rather than a fine city workshop piece, and that is the point. The knots are big enough to hold a thick 3/8" pile, the wool is springy and high in lanolin, and rugs built this way are the ones that survive 40 years of traffic and still photograph well. The back, visible in the detail photo, shows even knotting, straight rows and a level selvage with no bulges or waves. Buyers often ask where a Turkish weaving sits next to other origins, and our guide to Persian rugs vs Oriental rugs explains the distinction in plain terms. What you are buying here is a hand-knotted wool rug in excellent condition, full pile, honest colors, and a design that has outlived every decorating trend thrown at it.