8'2" x 10'3" Persian Turkman Bokara Rug | Green Field Gul Lattice | Hand-Knotted Wool, 2000s

A Bokara on a green ground is an unusual thing to find, and that is the first reason to look hard at this one. Turkman weavers almost always set their guls on madder red, so this 8'2" x 10'3" piece, with its rust medallions floating on soft olive wool, reads as a quiet, almost decorative version of a very strict tribal format. It was woven in the 2000's, has never been used, and the pile still stands full and even from edge to edge. The scale lands squarely in the most useful room size there is, which is why it sits comfortably alongside other 8x10 Persian rugs for a main seating area. Every rug we ship carries a certificate of authenticity confirming it is hand-knotted and Persian.

Design and Motifs

The field is an all-over pattern built from two alternating guls set in strict rows. The larger one is a stepped, hooked medallion with a navy core and cream palmette arms; the smaller one is a plain lozenge with a cream and green rosette at its center, outlined in ivory so it lifts off the green. Between them the weaver scattered tiny pink crosses and dark blue bars that keep the lattice from going flat. What holds the whole thing together is a thin ice-blue outline that traces the stepped edges of every medallion, a detail you only see up close. The border is where the Turkman discipline really shows: eleven narrow bands stacked one on another, including a row of upright paisley forms, a tiny diamond ribbon, a barber-pole twist and a chain of linked oval cartouches, all drawn at a much finer scale than the field. Corners resolve cleanly, with no awkward break in the repeat.

The Green and Rust Palette

The ground is a mid olive green that shifts with the nap, going toward apple green where the pile leans into the light and toward a deeper moss where it leans away. Against it, the guls are a warm terracotta rust, closer to brick than to tomato, and the two colors balance each other instead of fighting. Ivory does the structural work, outlining medallions and picking out the fine border stripes, while a soft brown runs through the outer bands and the selvage area. Small amounts of pale pink, butter cream and near-black navy give the pattern its depth at close range. The plain green strip running outside the border and the ivory cotton fringe frame the whole composition. If you are building a room around this tone, it sits naturally with the rest of our green Persian rugs, and it is forgiving with walnut, brass and cream upholstery.

Turkman Weaving in Persia

Turkman weavers settled across the northeastern reaches of Persia, and the Bokara name comes from the old market city where these goods were traded rather than from the villages that made them. The tradition is one of the most conservative in rug weaving: the gul belongs to the tribe, the spacing is inherited, and the weaver's freedom lives in color and in the border bands rather than in the drawing. That discipline is exactly what gives the design its rhythm here, with rows marching evenly over 10'3" of length without drifting. The weave is tight and flat on the back, the wool is springy and takes a clear sheen, and the cotton foundation keeps the rug lying true. Among Persian tribal rugs, Turkman work is the one people buy for how long it lasts, and a piece this clean has decades of floor life still ahead of it.