8'2" x 10'5" Pakistani Oriental Rug | Navy Floral Medallion | Signed Fine Weave Wool & Silk

This 8'2" x 10'5" room size piece is a signed workshop weaving: a midnight navy field packed with curling flower stems, a deep red medallion floating at the center, and a wide burgundy border that holds the whole layout square. The pile is wool with silk highlights over a cotton foundation, and the silk shows itself where the light moves across the petals and the spandrel scrollwork. Nothing about the drawing is village work. The lines stay curved through every turn, the 4 corners repeat each other closely, and the weaver signed his name in a small cartouche set into one end border. The rug has never been used, the pile stands full, and it ships with a certificate of authenticity recording size, material, weave and origin.

Design and Motifs

The layout is the classic medallion and corner formula, drawn at a level of detail that only a fine weave allows. A lobed red medallion sits at center, filled with slate blue and ivory palmettes and a small 8 petal rosette at its heart, and finished top and bottom with pendant finials that taper into the field. Around it the navy ground is covered in an all over garden: rosettes, tulip forms, serrated leaves and vases of flowers, each stem outlined in ivory so the pattern separates cleanly from the dark ground. Ivory and forest green spandrels close off the 4 corners with dense arabesque work. The border system runs 5 bands deep, with a burgundy main border of alternating star rosettes, flowering vases and paired scrolling vines, framed by slate blue guard stripes carrying pink cabbage roses. This kind of formal drawing sits comfortably with other 8x10 area rugs under a dining table or a full seating group.

Midnight Navy, Burgundy and Ivory Coloring

The field is a true midnight navy, dark enough at a distance to read almost black, which is exactly what makes the flower work glow the way it does. Against it the palette is built from burgundy and wine red in the medallion and the main border, warm ivory and cream in the outlines and spandrels, forest green in the large leaf scrolls, and a soft slate blue that carries the guard stripes and the rosette centers. Rose pink, apricot and pale gold appear in smaller doses inside individual blossoms, and those are the spots where the silk highlights catch light and shift tone as you cross the room. The overall impression is a deep, formal, jewel-toned rug rather than a bright one: the reds are saturated but never orange, the blue is steady, and the ivory keeps the dark ground from feeling heavy.

Woven in Pakistan to Fine Workshop Standards

Pakistan's weaving centers have spent decades building a reputation for precise, high count hand-knotted work on classical cartoons, and this is a good example of what the better ateliers there produce. The back photograph tells the story: tight, even knot rows, a firm double weft cotton foundation, straight hand-wrapped selvages and hand-plied fringe that is a continuation of the warps rather than an added strip. That density is what carries the curved line of the medallion and the fine ivory outlining without the drawing breaking up. If you are weighing this against other origins, our guide on what separates an Oriental rug from its neighbors is worth reading, and you can see how this piece compares with the rest of our traditional Oriental rugs. Signed, unused and finely woven, it is a rug bought once and kept.