8' x 11'2" Traditional Oriental Rug | Burgundy Field, Navy Floral Border | Hand-Knotted Wool, Made in India

A brand new, never used piece measuring 8' x 11'2", hand-knotted in India with a full wool pile on a cotton foundation. The drawing is classical: an uninterrupted all-over floral field in deep burgundy, enclosed by a wide indigo blue border of rosettes and leafy palmettes. There is no central medallion, which is exactly why a rug like this works so well under furniture, since the pattern reads the same from every seat in the room. This is a contemporary Oriental rug in the traditional idiom, and it ships with a certificate of authenticity confirming that it is genuinely hand-knotted, not machine made or tufted. It also fits the most requested room footprint we sell, so it sits comfortably alongside our other 8 x 11 area rugs.

Design and Motifs

The field is built from thin ivory vines that scroll the full length of the rug, throwing off large fan-shaped palmettes, cupped lotus blossoms, open rosettes and long serrated leaves. The layout mirrors across the long axis, so every motif on the left has a twin on the right, and the repeat steps up the field in staggered rows rather than sitting in rigid grids. Look at the close-up photograph and you can see how each blossom is outlined in dark navy and then shaded through 3 or 4 tones before it meets the ground color, which is what gives the flowers their rounded, almost sculptural look. The main border carries alternating shield-shaped palmette medallions and broad leaf clusters, separated by a small ivory guard stripe of linked rosettes on the inside and a green-toned floral meander on the outside. The corners are resolved cleanly, with the border pattern turning properly instead of being cut off, a detail that separates carefully drawn work from quick production weaving.

Burgundy, Indigo and the Colors In Between

The ground is a deep burgundy that leans toward plum where the pile lies away from the light and toward a warmer wine red where it lies toward it. Against that dark ground the ornament glows: soft salmon and peach carry most of the palmettes, rust and terracotta fill the smaller rosettes, and muted sage and teal green pick out the leaves and the small hearts at the center of each blossom. Ivory is used sparingly, mostly for the vine tracery and the fine outlines, so it lights the pattern without flattening it. The main border swings to a saturated indigo blue, cool enough to frame the warm field and deep enough that the rug never looks busy from across the room. A pale apricot guard band and a soft green outer stripe ease the transition, and the ivory cotton fringe at each end finishes the palette. In practical terms, the burgundy and navy combination hides traffic and forgives a great deal.

Made in India: Weave and Quality

India is where most of the world's good contemporary hand-knotted work is now made, and this rug shows why. Turn the corner over and the back is even and tightly packed, with the pattern legible knot by knot and no glue, no backing and no shortcuts. Each knot is tied by hand onto a cotton warp, beaten down row by row and then clipped to a medium pile that still has body and spring underfoot, as the rolled-edge photograph shows. The fringes are the warp threads themselves, finished by hand at both ends, not sewn on afterward. Weavers working this style follow a paper cartoon for the curved vinework, which is the harder discipline, since a flowing line has to be built from knots that are square. At 8' x 11'2" this is a substantial piece of hand weaving, brand new and never laid in a home, and the wool pile will take decades of use before it shows its age.