8'5" x 11'10" Mogul Design Oriental Rug | Gold Floral Trellis on Maroon | Made in India

This is a hand-knotted Mogul design rug woven in India, 8'5" x 11'10" of wool pile on a cotton foundation, and it reads as one continuous piece of drawing from fringe to fringe. The maroon field carries an all over trellis of antique gold vines with no central medallion to interrupt it, so the pattern stays calm under furniture and still rewards a close look. The pile has the dense, slightly glossy handle of good handspun wool, the selvages are tight, and the ends are finished with clean ivory cotton fringe. Condition is excellent and the rug has never been used, as the ruler and tag photo shows. Every rug ships with a certificate of authenticity confirming it is 100% hand-knotted, along with its measured dimensions and materials. If you are weighing this against a Persian piece, our guide on Persian rugs vs Oriental rugs explains exactly where the two traditions part ways.

Design and Motifs

The field is built on a lattice of curving gold vines that cross and recross to form tall ogival compartments. At each crossing sits an 8 petal rosette set inside a quatrefoil cartouche, and inside every compartment a cluster of leaf sprays, tulip buds and small rose heads rises on a slender stem. Because the drawing repeats rather than radiating from a center, this is a true all over pattern, which is why it works at this scale without the layout fighting a sofa or a dining table. The surround is a triple border system: a wide main border of serpentine flowering vine with large open rosettes and serrated acanthus leaves, framed on both sides by narrow chevron and rosette guard stripes, then a final plain outer band that gives the whole composition a clean edge. Corners are resolved properly, with the vine turning rather than being cut off, which is a mark of a drawn cartoon rather than a copied strip.

Maroon, Olive Green and Antique Gold

The ground is a deep maroon that shifts between wine and plum depending on which way the pile lies, visible in the angled photographs where one half of the field looks darker than the other. Over it, the trellis is worked in antique gold and a pale straw ivory, with the quatrefoil cartouches picked out in a soft sand tone so they lift away from the red. Leaf work is olive and sage green, cool enough to balance all the warmth, and the small flower heads introduce dusty rose, apricot and a few touches of true coral. The main border reverses the balance: a gold and tobacco ground on the long sides with maroon leaves and rose blossoms, so the border glows against the darker field. A scatter of near black outlining on the leaf tips keeps the whole palette defined. The overall effect is warm and formal rather than bright, which suits paneled rooms, walnut and mahogany furniture, and cream or putty walls.

Mogul Weaving in India

Mogul is the design language of the 17th century Mughal court workshops, where weavers combined a formal trellis with botanically observed flowers, and it is still drawn and knotted today in the north Indian weaving centers around Agra and Bhadohi. India is where most of the world's best contemporary hand-knotted work is now made, and this piece shows why: an even knot count across nearly 12 feet of length, straight sides, consistent dye lots with no visible abrash breaks in the border, and a wool clip low enough to hold the fine vine drawing crisply. As an Oriental rug it belongs to the traditional, workshop-woven end of the market rather than the commercial end, and the wool quality is what you feel first underfoot. For buyers who want the look of a classical court carpet in a large, usable format, a Mogul of this standard is one of the most honest values on the floor.