8'10" x 10'7" Oushak Style Rug | Antique Design on Tan Field | New Hand-Knotted Wool

This is a brand new hand-knotted wool rug woven in India in the antique Oushak idiom, measuring 8'10" x 10'7" with a camel-tan field, a charcoal-green main border and salmon-rust guard stripes. Everything about it is built the traditional way: a cotton foundation, a wool pile knotted by hand row by row, and a finishing wash that gives the surface the mellow, sun-softened tone of a piece that has lived in a room for decades. It reads as an old rug and wears like a new one, which is exactly why decorators keep asking for this look in a true room size. Every rug we ship, including this one, comes with a certificate of authenticity confirming it is genuinely hand-knotted, along with its exact measurements, materials and origin. If you want to understand where a piece like this sits next to Persian weaving, our guide to Persian rugs versus Oriental rugs explains the difference plainly.

Design and Motifs

The drawing is a loose, breathing all-over design built on a diamond lattice rather than one dominant medallion. At the center sits a dark brown serrated rosette with a small green and ivory heart, held inside a thin vine lozenge that sends out hooked leaves and tiny tulip buds. Around it the field is populated in three rows: stepped rust-red cartouches with 8 petal flowerheads at their cores, green serrated palmettes with salmon centers, and ochre or ivory cross-form stars dropped into the spaces between. Large angular hooked leaves, the so-called hooked brackets of the Oushak tradition, swing through the ground and give the pattern its relaxed rhythm. Small flowering sprays, pomegranate-like buds and scattered blossoms fill the quieter areas, and the composition is deliberately slightly irregular, with no two quarters identical. The main border carries a procession of large palmettes and cypress-shaped sprigs, flanked inside and out by narrow salmon stripes of running vine and arrowhead motifs, and the corners are resolved by hand rather than mechanically mitered.

A Palette of Tan, Olive Green, Rust and Brown

Color is the real argument for this rug. The field is a warm camel tan that shifts between sand, biscuit and a faint apricot blush depending on how the light falls across the pile, visible clearly in the close detail shots. Against it, the main border is a deep olive-charcoal green, dusty rather than saturated, which anchors the whole piece and keeps the open field from floating away. The accents are terracotta and brick rust, the kind of softened red that leans toward salmon where the wash has lightened it, and they are outlined in a near-black aubergine brown that sharpens every motif. Secondary notes include golden ochre, muted teal in the small flowerheads, ivory and a gentle olive. The overall temperature is warm and earthy, a neutral that still has color in it, which makes it easy to live with next to walnut and oak furniture, linen upholstery, leather, cream walls or warm grey paint.

Hand-Knotted in India: Origin and Weaving Quality

India is where most of the world's best contemporary hand-knotted weaving is now done, and this rug shows why: a firm, even cotton foundation, well-spun wool with real lanolin left in it, and a medium pile cut at a height that holds the drawing without blurring it. The knot count here is village scale rather than workshop fine, which is the correct choice for an Oushak-style pattern, since the large angular motifs need room to be drawn boldly. You can see the structure in the folded corner and edge photographs: tight, regular rows, hand-finished selvedges and a hand-knotted fringe. At 8'10" x 10'7" it covers a seating group properly or seats a table for 8, and it sits comfortably within our range of hand-knotted Oriental rugs and large area rugs. Wool of this quality, knotted this densely, is the reason a rug like this still looks right 30 years from now.