8'8" x 11'8" Jaipur Rug | William Morris Emerald Green All-Over Floral | Hand-Knotted Lustrous Wool

Dark emerald green is the hardest field color to get right in a hand-knotted rug, and this Jaipur weaving gets it right. The 8'8" x 11'8" field reads almost black-green in low light and opens into a deep jewel tone under a lamp, and against it the weavers set a full William Morris style lattice of rose, coral, slate blue and ivory blossoms. The pile is lustrous wool on a cotton foundation, the handle is thick and dense, and the rug has never been on a floor. In room terms it sits in the same footprint as a 9x12 area rug, with a little length to spare for a long sofa wall or a dining table with 8 chairs. Every rug we ship carries our certificate of authenticity.

Design and Motifs

There is no central medallion here. Instead the field is built from a repeating lattice of ogee panels outlined in soft camel and cream, each one enclosing a bouquet of open roses, tulip buds and feathered acanthus leaves, with a cusped ivory cartouche linking one panel to the next down the length of the rug. That stacked, endlessly repeating garden structure is what makes the William Morris reference obvious: the drawing is botanical rather than stylized, with visible stems, curling tendrils and leaves that turn to show their pale undersides. The main border is a wide ivory band of alternating rose palmettes and slate blue shield forms, framed on both sides by narrow guard stripes of small rosettes and lancet leaves on camel and blue grounds. Corners are resolved cleanly, and the outer green edge picks the field color back up so the whole composition closes rather than trails off.

A Deep Emerald Field With Rose, Rust and Ivory

The ground is a saturated emerald with a slight bottle-green depth in the shadows, and the wool takes light so well that the same green looks several shades lighter where the pile leans toward the viewer. Floating on it are true rose pinks and deeper burgundy blossom centers, rust and apricot leaf tips, a distinctive powder slate blue used for the secondary flowers, and warm camel-brown scrollwork that bridges the green and the ivory. The border ivory is a creamy unbleached tone rather than a stark white, which keeps the contrast rich instead of harsh. Tiny accents of gold and near-black outline the flower hearts and hold each motif crisp against the dark ground. It is a green rug that behaves like a neutral in practice: it pulls out walnut and mahogany furniture, sits well with brass and warm metals, and gives cream upholstery something to sit against.

Woven in Jaipur, India

Jaipur in Rajasthan is one of the serious hand-knotting centers of the world today, and most of the best contemporary workshop weaving now comes out of India rather than anywhere else. This piece shows why: the knot rows on the back are even, the lattice repeats line up across the full 104" width without drift, and the curved outlines in the panel frames stay smooth, which only happens when the knot count is high enough to draw a curve properly. The wool is the good lustrous grade that gains sheen with use instead of dulling, and the pile has been sheared at a medium height that keeps the fine drawing legible. If you are weighing this against a Persian piece, our guide on what separates a Persian rug from a broader Oriental rug is worth reading before you decide.