8' x 10' Contemporary Tibetan Rug | Pine Green & Ivory Stacked Bar Panels | Brand New, Never Used

This is a quiet, confident piece of modern floor work: a hand-knotted Tibetan-weave rug in a deep pine green that leans toward sea green in daylight, with three panels of ivory bars stacked down the center of an otherwise open field. There is no border and no medallion, nothing to date it to a decade, which is exactly why it works in rooms where the furniture and the art are meant to do the talking. The pile is 3/8" hand-spun wool over a cotton foundation, dense and low enough to sit flat under a sofa leg or a dining chair, and the piece has never been laid in a home. It ships with a certificate of authenticity confirming the hand-knotted construction, materials and origin. Among our modern and contemporary rugs this one is unusually restrained, and it is a practical, much-requested footprint within our 8x10 hand-knotted rugs.

Design and Motifs

The drawing is reduced to one idea repeated three times. Three roughly square panels run down the length of the field, each filled with short ivory bars set in vertical columns, and within every panel the bars graduate from tight and almost solid at the top to widely spaced single dashes at the bottom, so each block reads as a fade rather than a grid. Between the panels sit two pairs of thin ivory rules, broken at the center line, which act as rests between the blocks and keep the composition from feeling stacked. The field itself is left completely plain, with no border, no guard stripes and no corner devices, and the panels are set slightly off to one side of the width rather than dead center. Up close in the detail photos the ivory bars are woven in a single clean row of knots, with crisp edges and no outlining, which is what keeps this kind of minimal pattern looking intentional instead of soft.

Pine Green, Teal Shading and Undyed Ivory

The field is pine green with a distinct blue-green cast, closer to spruce or deep teal than to olive, and it is not a flat color. Hand-spun wool takes dye at slightly different rates from strand to strand, so the surface carries fine abrash: lighter, almost silvery sea-green passes drift across the corners and along the long sides, while the center and the ends settle into a darker forest tone. The corner photo shows this best, where the green moves from a hazy blue-grey in the raking light to a saturated bottle green where the pile lies the other way. Against all of that, the ivory is left clean and warm, a soft cream rather than a bright white, so the bars glow instead of snapping. The back photo shows the same green and ivory yarns in the knot heads with a cool blue-toned weft between them. For rooms built around this palette, it sits comfortably with our other green area rugs, walnut floors, brass and natural linen.

Tibetan Weaving Tradition, Woven in China

This rug is made in China in the Tibetan weaving tradition, the same workshop practice that supplies most of the serious minimalist hand-knotted work sold through design studios today. Tibetan-style weaving uses thick hand-spun wool knotted over a rod and then cut, which produces the characteristic plump, slightly irregular knot head you can see in the back photo, and it is the reason the surface has that woolly, hand-spun texture rather than the tight flat face of a finely knotted city rug. The wool here is springy and lanolin-rich, clipped to 3/8", and seated on a cotton foundation that keeps an 8' x 10' panel square and flat. It is worth being clear about what this is and is not: as an Oriental rug it belongs to the broad hand-knotted family, but the design vocabulary is contemporary and the workmanship should be judged on evenness of weave, straightness of the panels and quality of the wool. On all three counts this one holds up, and it has never been walked on.