8'6" x 11'6" Oriental Rug | All-Over Floral Greenish Gold | Wool and Silk Pile

This is a brand new hand-knotted Oriental rug measuring 8'6" x 11'6", woven in wool with silk accents on a cotton foundation and never used. The field is a warm greenish gold, closer to old brass than to yellow, and it is covered edge to edge with small floral sprays rather than broken up by a central medallion. The pile is clipped low and evenly, which is why the drawing of each blossom stays crisp and the silk passages flash when you cross the room. At this size it holds a full seating group or a 10 seat dining table without crowding, and it ships with a certificate of authenticity.

Design and Motifs

The field is a true all-over composition, mirrored across the long and short axes so the pattern reads as ordered rather than scattered. Thin salmon vines curve through the gold ground and carry open rosettes, layered palmettes, small 5 petal blossoms and clusters of forget-me-not sized flowers, with dark green serrated leaves anchoring the heavier motifs. Look at the close detail shots and you can see the shading work: each large palmette is built from 4 or 5 tones stepped outward from a red center, which is the kind of drawing that only survives at a fine knot count. The border system runs 5 bands, with a broad ivory main border of arched flowering vines and cartouche-like leaf palmettes, flanked by rose-tinted guard stripes and narrow brown outlines. The corners are resolved cleanly, the vine turning the angle without the pattern being cut short.

A Greenish Gold Field Lit with Pink and Sage

The ground color is the whole character of this piece: a greenish gold that leans olive under daylight and warms toward antique brass under lamps, with the silk passages shifting the tone as you walk around the rug. Against it the flowers are drawn in blush pink, deeper rose and crimson centers, apricot, salmon and soft cream, with pale blue-grey petals turning up here and there to cool the palette. Leaves and vine work run through sage and a dark forest green, and small touches of yellow outline the palmette edges. The main border switches to a soft ivory that reads almost cream beside the field, and a pinkish sand guard stripe separates the two, so the gold never runs straight into the white. It is a quiet, light-reflective palette that sits comfortably with oak and walnut furniture, warm whites and greige walls.

Made in China, Woven to a Fine Standard

This rug was hand-knotted in China, where workshops have specialized for decades in fine floral hand-knotted work in wool with silk highlights. The back shot tells you what you are buying: small, tight, regular knots, straight rows, and a cotton foundation with no slack, which is what keeps a 8'6" x 11'6" rug lying flat and square on the floor. The wool is spun for luster rather than bulk and is sheared short so the pattern stays legible, while the silk is used sparingly in the flower heads and vine highlights where it earns its keep. Among 9x12 Oriental rugs this one sits at the finer end of the weave range, and it arrives in perfect, never used condition.