9'10" x 12'10" Super Kazak Oriental Rug | Triple Medallion Navy Field | Hand-Knotted Wool

This is a big, serious piece of weaving: a hand-knotted wool Oriental rug in the Super Kazak grade, measuring 9'10" x 12'10" and falling squarely into the 10 x 13 area rug class that most large living rooms and formal dining rooms need. The back label stapled to the selvedge records it plainly: 12'10 x 9'10, 392 x 301 cm, hand-knotted in Pakistan, 100% natural wool. The pile has never been walked on, the ends and sides are original and sound, and the wool still carries the slight sheen of a rug that has only ever been rolled and stored. Every rug we ship leaves with a certificate of authenticity that records the size, the weave, the materials and the origin.

Design and Motifs

The layout runs on a vertical spine of 3 medallions, a drawing lifted from the Mamluk carpets of the 15th and 16th centuries and rendered here in the heavier, flatter language of Kazak weaving. At the center sits an 8 point star medallion on a sky blue ground, its ivory core filled with scrolling vine and small burgundy leaf forms. Above and below it, 2 large octagons in rust and camel each enclose a concentric ring of stepped blue and a small rosette at the middle. The navy field between them is packed with tiny cross flowers, arrowhead palmettes, hooked brackets and boteh-like pendants, the kind of dense filler work that keeps a large rug from reading empty. Corner panels carry squared star rosettes, and the main border alternates elongated hexagonal cartouches with round floral roundels. An ivory guard border of leaf and vine frames the whole thing on all 4 sides. It is a design that belongs with other geometric medallion rugs but draws with more curve and more detail than most.

A Navy Field Read in Rust, Sky Blue and Ivory

The ground is a deep, slightly inky navy blue that shifts toward midnight in the folds and toward a softer indigo where the light catches the pile, visible in the close-up of the selvedge. Against it the medallions are worked in warm rust and terracotta, with broad passages of camel gold in the upper and lower octagons. The middle medallion is the coolest note in the rug: a pale sky blue field scattered with gold leaf sprays, centered on cream and drawn with oxblood red. Ivory carries the guard borders and the small cross flowers in the field, and thin whites and pale greys are used as outline colors to keep the rust from bleeding into the navy. Small hits of burgundy, soft green blue and apricot appear inside the rosettes. It is a dark rug overall, but a warm one, and it will read best in a light room where the ivory border can breathe against a pale floor or wall.

Woven in Pakistan in the Kazak Tradition

Super Kazak is a workshop grade rather than a town: weavers in Pakistan working the old Caucasian Kazak vocabulary, but at a finer knot count and on a better spun wool than the village originals ever used. The wool here is the point. It is hand-spun, long-stapled and springy, and the fold photograph shows how the pile compresses and comes back without crushing, which is exactly what you want under dining chairs or a heavy coffee table. The back shows even, regular knot rows across the full 118" width with no pull or waisting, and the corners sit square. Colors are muted rather than glossy, sitting in the register associated with slow dyeing on hand-spun yarn, so the rug already looks settled rather than new. At 9'10" x 12'10" and woven this densely, it is built to take decades of real traffic.