8'6" x 11'6" Tibetan Wool and Silk Rug | Modern Scrolling Vine Design | Ivory and Olive, New

This 8'6" x 11'6" rug was hand-knotted in Tibet in ivory wool, with the whole design drawn in silk rather than blocked in color. The field is left almost entirely open, so a single scrolling vine line does all the work: a round medallion at center, a wide vine border, and bare ground in between. It is new, has never been on a floor, and the pile stands at full height across all 102 by 138 inches. Placed in a room it behaves like quiet furniture, which is exactly why this drawing style suits large open plans in the 9x12 size range. Every rug leaves our Freeport warehouse with a certificate of authenticity recording origin, materials and exact measurements.

Design and Motifs

The center holds a large round medallion assembled entirely from interlocking spirals, with a ribbed lotus bud at its core, a fan of serrated leaves above and below, and 8 smaller lotus buds set around the ring like clock positions. Two tiny parallel bars sit at the top and bottom of the medallion, a small punctuation mark the designer used to close the composition. There are no spandrels and no filler, so the ivory ground reads as deliberate negative space. The border repeats a single undulating vine: paired scrolls that roll into tight snail curls, a serrated leaf springing off each turn, and a ribbed bud at the center of every repeat, with the 4 corners resolved by one large sweeping scroll rather than a corner cartouche. It is a clean, symmetrical drawing that belongs with modern and contemporary rugs while keeping the formality of a classical border layout.

Ivory Ground, Olive and Gold Silk

The ground is an unbroken ivory that warms toward cream and champagne under lamp light, with the very faint tonal movement you get from natural wool rather than a flat dyed sheet. Against it, the drawn line runs through a narrow band of related tones: deep olive brown on the heaviest strokes of the border and the outer medallion, a mid bronze on the leaves, and a light honey gold on the thinner scroll tails. Because those lines are silk, they change as you cross the room. Seen from the low angles in the detail photographs they flare to bright metallic gold, and from directly above they settle back into soft olive against the matte wool. The contrast is gentle throughout, so the rug sits comfortably with white, oak, greige and warm brass without competing with anything.

Tibetan Weaving and Build Quality

Tibetan workshops weave on a cotton foundation using the looped rod technique of the Himalayan highlands, which produces a dense, springy pile and lets the weaver combine two materials cleanly in one carpet, wool for the ground and silk for the drawing. That is what makes a piece like this work: the wool is thick and matte enough to carry a plain field without looking cheap, while the silk keeps a crisp edge on curves that would blur in wool alone. The folded corner shows an even back, straight lines of knots and tidy selvedges, and the rug lies flat with no cupping or wave. Within the wider family of the Oriental rug, Tibetan work is the branch that modern designers reach for most often, and this one is a good example of why.