8' x 8' Octagonal Jaipur Rug | Tabriz All Over Floral Design | Navy Blue & Burgundy

An 8 sided rug knotted entirely by hand is a genuinely uncommon piece. Every one of the 8 sides here had to be set up on the loom, drawn to the correct angle and finished, which is why serious octagons show up so rarely in the trade. This one measures 8' x 8' across the points, sits on a cotton foundation with a fine wool pile, and has never been used: the pile still stands full and even from edge to edge, with clean ivory fringe on all 8 faces. It ships with a certificate of authenticity confirming it as a hand-knotted piece. If you have an octagonal foyer, a bay window room or a round table that a rectangle has never flattered, this is the shape that solves it.

Design and Motifs

The drawing follows the Tabriz tradition: a curvilinear all over floral field with no central medallion, so the pattern reads the same from every direction, which is exactly what an octagon needs. Broad palmettes, serrated leaves and small carnation sprays repeat across the ground, tied together by pale ivory cloudband ribbons that snake between the rows and give the field its sense of movement. A small rust and pink rosette marks the true center. The frame is unusually deep for this size, 5 concentric bands in all: a burgundy main border carrying alternating navy cartouche rosettes and open sunflower heads, flanked by ivory guard stripes of linked vine and rosette, then narrow navy outer bands that follow the angled corners cleanly. Look at the corner photograph and you can see the pattern turn the 45 degree angle without a break, which is the mark of a drawing done properly on the loom rather than cut to fit.

Colors: Midnight Navy, Burgundy and Ivory

The field is a deep midnight navy that goes nearly black in low light and opens up to a true dark blue when the sun reaches it, as the angled floor shots show. Against it the floral work carries a wide spread of tones: burgundy and wine red in the palmette hearts, soft salmon pink and blush in the smaller blossoms, olive and sage green in the leaves, and rust and apricot in the larger flower heads. Ivory does the structural work here, first as the cloudband ribbons that lift the dark field, then as the guard stripes that separate the navy ground from the burgundy border. That burgundy is the second anchor color, a settled brick red rather than a bright one, warmed further by the tan and gold vine that runs through it. The overall effect is a dark, saturated, traditional palette that hides household traffic well and sits comfortably with mahogany, walnut and brass.

Woven in Jaipur, India

Jaipur, in Rajasthan, is one of the great living centers of hand-knotting, and India is where most of the world's good contemporary hand-knotted work is now made. We say that without hedging: the looms there produce traditional Tabriz and Kashan drawings at a level of consistency and finish that is hard to match today. This piece shows it in the practical details, the even pile height visible where the edge is rolled back, the tight straight selvage on every one of the 8 sides, and the fine wool that has already taken on a low sheen. It is a classic Oriental rug in the broad sense, a Persian city design faithfully executed on an Indian loom, and in a shape almost nobody weaves.