8'7" x 12' French Needlepoint Rug | Aubusson Style Floral Bouquet Lattice | Flat Weave, Brand New

This is a hand-woven needlepoint in the French Aubusson manner, worked stitch by stitch in wool on a cotton ground so the surface sits almost flush with the floor. There is no knotted pile here and no thickness to fight with: the rug lies dead flat under a dining chair or a low sofa, and at 8'7" x 12' it covers a full seating group without the weight and bulk of a deep pile piece. The back tag numbers it 6309. It has never been on a floor, the wools are bright and unwalked, and it ships with a certificate of authenticity confirming the construction, materials and origin. Buyers who like the look of an antique French salon room but want a clean, brand new piece tend to stop here.

Design and Motifs

There is no medallion. Instead the field carries an allover floral design built on a faint ivory diamond trellis, with slender ribbon strokes marking the lattice and a small 8 petal rosette sitting at every crossing point. Inside each diamond is a loose bouquet, and the bouquets are not repeats: one gathers cabbage roses and a pale tulip, another blue grape clusters with orange berries, another wheat sheaves tied with cornflowers and a single open daisy. Ripe fruit forms, trailing berry sprays and curling green leaves fill the gaps so the field reads as a scattered garden rather than a grid. The border is deliberately quiet, a narrow band of stylised leaf and laurel work in soft gold and brown between thin brown guard lines, which lets the bouquets hold all the attention. Corner detail shows how cleanly the border turns, with the trellis and the flowers running right up to the frame.

A Pale Beige Ground with Rose, Green and Cornflower Blue

The ground is a warm pale beige, closer to oatmeal and unbleached linen than to stark white, and it shifts very slightly toward sand where the light falls across the weave. Against it the flowers are painted in a restrained pastel range: dusty rose and deep raspberry pink in the roses, peach and soft coral in the open blooms, apricot and terracotta in the fruit, and a cool cornflower blue in the grape clusters and small scattered buds that keeps the whole thing from turning sweet. Foliage runs through sage and olive green with touches of a deeper leaf green, and the trellis strokes, rosettes and border are done in pale gold and warm brown. Small flecks of crimson and cream appear inside individual petals, which is where the hand work shows. It is a light, quiet colorway that sits comfortably on wide plank floors, limestone and pale walls, and it brightens a north facing room instead of weighing it down.

French Design, Chinese Needlepoint Workshops

Needlepoint of this kind descends from the 18th century French workshops at Aubusson, where flat tapestry weaves with garden bouquets were made for salons and dining rooms. The technique is now carried on almost entirely by workshops in China, and this is an honest example of that work: made in China, hand-woven stitch by stitch on a cotton ground, with each color block counted out by hand rather than printed or machine tufted. Judge the quality by the drawing, and the drawing here is disciplined, with even stitch count across 12 feet of length, clean curves in the rose petals, and a border that turns each of the 4 corners without a break in the pattern. If you are weighing this style against knotted work, our guide to Oriental rug categories explains the difference in plain terms, and the rest of our 9x12 area rugs sit in the same footprint if you want to compare weaves at this size.