9'10" x 14' Oriental Rug | Kashan Design All-Over Floral on Black | New, Made in India

This is a big, serious room rug: 9'10" x 14' of densely hand-knotted wool, drawn in the classic Kashan manner but woven in India, where most of the world's best contemporary hand-knotted work is now produced. The black field carries an all-over floral system with no central medallion, so the pattern reads as a single continuous garden from end to end, and the wool has the tight, heavy handle you can feel in the folded corner photograph. It is brand new and has never been on a floor. If you are shopping 10x14 area rugs for a large living room or a long dining room, this is the size that actually covers the furniture legs instead of floating in the middle. Every piece ships with a certificate of authenticity confirming it is genuinely hand-knotted.

Design and Motifs

The field is a true all-over floral design, built from thin curving vines that link palmettes, open rosettes, serrated lanceolate leaves and small cruciform blossoms across the full 14' length. Look closely at the close-up images and you can see the drawing is mirrored on the long axis, with shield-shaped gold cartouche flowers repeating down the center line, so the rug has symmetry without ever resolving into a medallion. The border system runs three bands deep: a wide gold-ivory main border of turtle palmettes and red rosettes on a sinuous blue-green vine, framed on both sides by sage green guard stripes of small flowering sprigs, then a narrow outer stripe against the black selvedge. The corners are properly resolved, the vine turns cleanly at all 4 corners rather than being cut off, which is the first place a hurried weave gives itself away. This is the kind of formal, tightly packed drawing that a traditional Oriental rug is bought for.

A Black Field Lit by Gold, Red and Green

The ground is a deep, even black, dark enough that the wool reads almost like velvet where the light falls across the pile, and it does the work of making everything drawn on top of it glow. The dominant accent is gold, ranging from a warm antique brass in the larger palmettes to a pale straw and ivory in the smaller leaves, with soft beige and light brown filling the transitions so nothing looks flat. Burgundy red appears as small rosette centers and blossom heads scattered evenly through the field, and it repeats at full strength in the main border rosettes. Sage and olive green carry the guard stripes and tip many of the leaves, while a muted teal blue turns up in the border vinework and in tiny dots inside the field flowers. The gold-ivory border is several shades lighter than the field, so the rug frames itself clearly and the black center stays contained rather than swallowing the room. Against pale walls, oak or walnut floors, or a cream sofa, the contrast is dramatic; against darker furniture the gold carries it.

Made in India, Woven in the Kashan Tradition

India's weaving centers have spent decades refining the classical Kashan repertoire, and the standard of work coming out of them today is genuinely high: hand-spun wool, a firm cotton foundation, and knot counts that let a weaver draw a curved vine instead of a stepped approximation. This piece shows that clearly. The back is tight and regular, the knot nodes are small and even, and the pile has been clipped low enough that the fine outlines stay crisp. At 9'10" x 14' and this density the rug is heavy, which is exactly what you want in a room where chairs get pushed back and traffic crosses the same lines every day. Wool at this quality burnishes rather than crushes, so the field will gain sheen with use instead of losing it, and the natural lanolin in the fiber keeps it resilient for generations.