8'2" x 10'7" Oriental Wool Rug | Black & Ivory All-Over Floral Design | New, Never Used

This is a brand new, never used hand-knotted Oriental rug woven in wool on a cotton foundation, measuring 8'2" x 10'7". The weave is tight and even, the pile is clipped low so the drawing stays crisp, and the handle is firm rather than floppy, which is what you want in a room-size piece that will take daily traffic. It reads as a classic traditional floor rug: a deep black field packed edge to edge with floral work, framed by a wide ivory border and a run of narrow guard stripes. Every rug we ship carries a certificate of authenticity confirming that it is genuinely hand-knotted, along with its measurements, materials and origin. Among 8x11 hand-knotted rugs, a black ground in this condition is the harder one to find.

Design and Motifs

There is no central medallion here. The field is a true all-over design, built from staggered rows of large serrated palmettes, open rosettes, tulip and lotus heads, feathered leaves and long curling arabesque vines that link one motif to the next. The drawing is mirrored on both the long and short axes, so the pattern repeats cleanly from any direction and the rug has no single front. Close in, as in the detail photographs, you can see how much small work is packed between the big flowers: tiny buds, split leaves and paired scrolling tendrils that keep the black ground from ever reading as empty. The border does its own job. The wide ivory main band carries alternating boteh and palmette cartouches set on a vine, flanked by narrow guard stripes in ivory and dark blue with a running meander, and the corners are resolved properly rather than cut off mid motif, which is a straightforward marker of careful cartoon work.

A Black Field Read in Full Color

The ground is a genuine black, not a very dark navy or charcoal, and it is the reason the rest of the palette works so hard. Against it the floral work comes up in warm ivory and cream, soft gold and tan, muted sage and olive green, dusty rose, a faded plum and small touches of slate blue. Nothing is loud: these are low-saturation, slightly antiqued tones rather than bright ones, so the overall impression from standing height is a smoky charcoal and gold surface that resolves into distinct colors as you walk toward it. The main border swaps the relationship, putting the same greens, roses and blues on a creamy ivory ground, which lifts the whole perimeter and stops the black from feeling heavy. The wool has a natural sheen, so the field shifts between deep matte black and a lighter grey-brown depending on which way the pile is lying and where the light falls. Practically, a black ground is forgiving in a busy room and it anchors light floors, pale walls and mid-century or dark wood furniture without competing with them.

Woven in Pakistan, in the Classical Tradition

Pakistan has been one of the serious centers of hand-knotted production for decades, and its best workshops build on the old classical drawing vocabulary while weaving to consistent modern standards. This piece shows that discipline: knots are regular, the rows sit straight, the selvages are wrapped in black and finished cleanly, and the hand-tied white fringe is even along both ends. The pile is good quality hand-spun wool, densely packed and sheared low enough that fine details such as the split-leaf tips and the small buds in the border stay legible. Low pile plus a tight cotton foundation is the combination that makes a rug like this lie flat, resist crushing under furniture legs, and clean easily. It is a new rug rather than an antique, which means you get the full life of the wool ahead of you, with no restoration, no reweaving and no thin spots to plan around.