8' x 10'2" Jaipur Oriental Rug | Tabriz Mohtasham Floral Medallion | Brand New Wool Pile

This 8' x 10'2" piece was hand-knotted in Jaipur on a cotton foundation with a dense, hard-twist wool pile, and it is the kind of Oriental rug that rewards a close look. The drawing follows the Tabriz Mohtasham formula, a lobed medallion with pendants and cartouche tablets floating on a deep burgundy ground, and the weavers have kept the curved line honest rather than flattening it into a stencil. The pile is cut low enough that the fine stems and leaf tips stay readable, and the handle is heavy and firm, as the rolled corner and back photos show. It is brand new and never used, sized as a true room-size piece that suits the standard 8 x 10 rug footprint, and it ships with our certificate of authenticity.

Design and Motifs

The center is a lobed black medallion packed with lotus blossoms, split palmettes and small rosettes, anchored by stepped pendants at top and bottom and flanked by tiny tablet motifs that read like miniature cartouches. Around it the field carries large rounded palmette clusters and curling acanthus sprays arranged in strict mirror symmetry, with slender flowering stems filling the space between them so that no part of the burgundy ground sits empty for long. The 4 corners are resolved with cream spandrels drawn in the same vocabulary, each carrying a striped gateway panel and a sweeping curled leaf that turns back on itself. The main border is a black ground of fan-shaped palmettes and rosettes on a continuous vine, framed inside and out by salmon guard bands of alternating flower heads. Detail image 5 shows how much drawing is compressed into the medallion, and image 6 shows the crisp outlining that keeps each element separate.

A Deep Burgundy Field With Black, Cream and Gold

The ground is a saturated burgundy that leans toward aubergine where the pile lies away from the light, which is exactly what gives this rug its weight on the floor. Against it the medallion and the main border are worked in a true black, a hard contrast that makes the floral work jump forward. The florals themselves are the warm half of the palette: peach and salmon, camel gold, soft sage green, dusty rose and a chalky cream that carries the spandrels and the outer highlights. Copper-toned guard bands bridge the black border and the cream, and small touches of ice blue and deep wine appear inside individual blossoms when you look closely. It is a dark, formal scheme rather than a bright one, and it sits well over walnut, espresso and grey stone floors. Collectors shopping burgundy rugs will notice the pile has a light sheen from the wool quality, visible in the rolled photo.

Woven in Jaipur: Origin and Weaving Quality

Jaipur, in Rajasthan, is one of the few places still producing hand-knotted work at this standard in volume, and India is now where most of the world's good contemporary hand-knotted rugs are made. That is not a consolation prize: the looms there run fine cotton warps, the wool is well spun and hard twisted, and workshops are willing to attempt classical medallion drawing that needs a high knot count to hold its curves. This piece proves the point. The back photo shows even, tight rows with no slack or bulge, the selvedges are firm, and the cotton fringe is original to the weave rather than added. Because the pile is trimmed close, the outlines stay sharp across the whole 8' x 10'2" field, including in the border where the palmette fans are only a few knots wide. It is a serious, heavy, well-finished rug built to take traffic for decades.