9'10" x 14'5" Kashmir Bamboo Silk Rug | Hereke All-Over Floral Design | Burgundy & Black

This is a large, quietly luxurious hand-knotted Oriental rug woven in Kashmir, northern India, in a Hereke-style all-over floral drawing. At 9'10" x 14'5" it covers a full formal room and still leaves a clean walking border, which is exactly what buyers searching 10x14 Oriental rugs are usually trying to solve. The pile is Kashmir bamboo silk, a plant-based fiber spun from bamboo cellulose rather than natural silk, and it behaves the way buyers hope silk will: it flashes light, shifts tone as you walk around it, and holds very fine detail because the knot count is high enough to draw curved vines without breaking them into steps. The rug dates to the 2000's, is in excellent condition with full even pile and intact hand-tied fringe, and ships with a certificate of authenticity.

Design and Motifs

There is no central medallion. Instead the field carries a continuous all-over floral lattice built from thin ivory vines that loop, cross and mirror themselves across the full length of the rug, so the pattern reads the same from either end of the room. Inside that framework sit small rosettes, split palmettes, curled acanthus leaves and tiny 4 petal blossoms, each one outlined in a single row of ivory knots that keeps the drawing crisp against the dark ground. Larger paired palmettes repeat in vertical files down the field and give the eye a rhythm to follow. The main border is a black ground filled with alternating vase-like palmettes and leafy scrolling cartouches, flanked on both sides by narrow guard stripes in sage, soft gold and pale gray carrying a running leaf and bud motif. A slim copper-brown outer edge closes the rug before the ivory fringe, and the corners resolve cleanly, with the border pattern turning properly at all 4 corners rather than being cut off.

The Burgundy Field, Lit with Turquoise and Sage

The field is a deep burgundy that leans toward oxblood and brick in raking light, warming almost to copper along the outer edge where the pile catches the sun. Against it the palette is surprisingly cool: bright turquoise and teal blossoms, dusty sage, olive and moss leaves, charcoal gray florets, mustard and amber gold highlights, and occasional blush pink petals, all separated by the ivory vine tracery that keeps the busy field from going muddy. The main border is near-black, dark enough to frame the burgundy hard, with its palmettes picked out in gold, seafoam, ivory and soft brown. Because bamboo silk reflects light directionally, the whole rug changes value as you cross the room: from one end the ground reads as dark wine with jewel-tone flowers, from the other it lifts to a glowing russet. It sits comfortably with mahogany and walnut furniture, warm white or cream walls, and brass or antique gold metal.

Kashmir Weaving and the Hereke Tradition

Kashmir, in the far north of India, has built its reputation on fine hand-knotting and on interpreting classical court designs with unusual accuracy. The Hereke idiom this rug follows comes from the Turkish imperial workshops, where all-over floral compositions were drawn at very high knot counts so the vines could curve smoothly; reproducing that drawing takes a weaver capable of holding a single-knot ivory outline over 14 feet without wandering, and the mirrored repeats here show it was held. India is where most of the world's good contemporary hand-knotted work is now made, and this piece is a fair example of why: a cotton foundation beaten tight, an even low pile, a flat back with legible knot rows, and finishing (selvages, hand-tied fringe, squared corners) done to a standard that still looks right after two decades. It reads as a formal, dressy rug rather than a rustic one, and it earns that at room-filling scale.