8'1" x 10' Oriental Rug | Ivory Green Floral Medallion | Wool with Silk Touch, Never Used

This 8'1" x 10' room size Oriental rug is a workshop piece drawn in the classical medallion idiom: an ivory field, a sage green starburst medallion at dead center, and a rose red frame that wraps the field and locks the 4 corners in place. The pile is wool with a silk touch, so the vine work and the rosettes throw off a quiet sheen while the ivory ground stays matte and calm. It has never been on a floor. The pile is full height, the selvages are tight and the cotton fringe is clean and even, as shown in the back and fringe photo. It ships with a certificate of authenticity confirming the rug is 100% hand-knotted.

Design and Motifs

The center is an 8 petal rosette in burgundy and ivory, set inside a pointed star medallion on a green ground that is filled with small rose sprays and tiny leaf ticks. Around it sit 4 outlined panels and 4 shield shaped cartouches, each holding its own miniature flower head, so the medallion reads as a layered composition rather than a single shape. Pendants run off the top and bottom of the medallion into the open ivory field, where curling cloud band scrolls, serrated leaves, palmettes and clusters of naturalistic roses spread outward in a mirrored arrangement. The rose red spandrels carry large paisley palmettes and ivory arabesque leaves that turn the corners cleanly. Framing all of it is a wide green main border of linked rosettes and scrolling vine, flanked by ivory guard stripes of small alternating flower heads and thin burgundy outline bands. The drawing stays in register across the full 10 foot length, with matching corners and no crowding, which is the mark of a carefully mapped cartoon.

A Palette of Ivory, Sage Green and Burgundy

The field is a warm ivory, closer to cream than to stark white, and it gives the pattern room to breathe. Against it the designer worked a muted sage green for the medallion and the main border, a green that leans slightly gray rather than bright, which is why the rug sits comfortably with both cool and warm wall colors. The rose red to burgundy range does the structural work: a dusty raspberry across the spandrels and inner frame, deeper wine red in the rosette centers and outline stripes. Inside the flowers the weaver used a spread of secondary tones, soft blue, dusty pink, mushroom taupe, pale gold, olive and near black, so each bloom is shaded over 3 or 4 values instead of being flat. Blue shows up only as accent petals and small buds, scattered through the field and border. Where the silk touch yarn falls, on the leaf tips and the finer vines, the color changes tone as you walk around the rug and the highlights shift.

Origin and Weaving Quality

This piece was made in China, in a workshop that weaves traditional floral designs to a high standard on a cotton foundation. The evidence is in the detail: rose petals only a few knots across, hairline black outlines that never wobble, and a border that resolves its corners exactly. That level of drawing is only possible at a fine knot count, and the back and fringe photo shows a tight, even weave with a soft handle. Wool takes the ground colors with depth while the silk touch highlights lift the flowers, a combination that has made contemporary hand-knotted work from these ateliers a serious value in the market. At 8'1" x 10' it is a true room size piece, and buyers comparing 8x10 Oriental rugs will find few new pieces in this price class with this much shading in the palette. See more hand-knotted Oriental rugs in the same tradition.