9'11" x 13'10" Jaipur Oriental Rug | Maroon Field, Olive Green Floral Border | Hand-Knotted Wool

This is a brand new, never used hand-knotted rug from Jaipur, woven in 100% wool on a cotton foundation and measuring 9'11" x 13'10". The weaver filled the entire ground with a mirrored all-over floral repeat rather than a central medallion, then wrapped it in a wide olive green border that reverses the palette completely. It is a big, confident traditional piece that covers a full seating group with room to spare, and the wool has a glossy, slightly waxy handle that makes the maroon read almost like velvet in raking light. Every rug we ship carries a certificate of authenticity confirming that it is genuinely hand-knotted, along with its origin, materials and measured size.

Design and Motifs

The field carries a classical all-over composition drawn on a lattice of thin ivory vines. Large split palmettes, 8 petal rosettes and long serrated saz leaves repeat in mirrored pairs up the length of the rug, with smaller blossoms and curling tendrils filling the ground between them so that almost no plain space is left. The drawing is symmetrical across the vertical axis, which is what gives the field its ordered, formal rhythm even without a medallion. The main border is the show piece: a wide olive green band carrying big lobed palmettes and open rosettes in gold, wine and ivory, each one outlined in dark navy so the shapes stay crisp against the green. Two narrow guard stripes, one green with a repeating yellow lily meander and one with a small flower and leaf vine, separate the border from the field and from the burgundy outer selvage. The corners are resolved cleanly, with the border pattern turning the angle without breaking the motif, and the ends finish in plain ivory cotton fringe.

A Maroon Ground Against Olive Green

Colour is the reason to buy this one. The ground is a deep maroon with a faint plum cast, darker and wine-like in the corners and slightly lighter through the centre where the pile lies differently, a natural variation that gives the surface depth rather than a flat printed look. Against that ground the palette is unusually broad for a traditional design: warm gold and buttery yellow in the larger palmettes, soft beige and cream in the outlined leaves, clear ivory in the vine work, and cool notes of sage, slate blue and deep teal tucked inside the blossoms. The border swings the whole scheme in the opposite direction, trading red for a rich olive and moss green that reads almost black at the shaded edges, with the same golds and ivories lifting the motifs off it. Small hits of rust and brick red inside the border flowers tie the two halves of the rug back together. Under lamplight the maroon deepens and the greens warm; under daylight the golds and ivories dominate.

Woven in Jaipur, India

Jaipur, in Rajasthan, is one of the great centres of contemporary hand-knotted weaving, and India is where most of the world's best new floor work is made today. Workshops there draw on the classical Indo Persian court repertoire, the same palmette and vine vocabulary that made 17th century Indian carpet weaving famous, and execute it with wool that is spun for durability and a deep, even clip. This piece shows that training clearly: the knotting is regular, the vine lines stay thin and continuous through the curves, the selvages are tightly overcast in burgundy, and the back shows an even, well beaten weave with no pull or distortion at the ends. Buyers comparing workshops often want to understand the difference between Persian and Oriental rugs, and this is a textbook example of the latter: Indian made, classically drawn, and priced well below equivalent workshop weaving elsewhere. It sits naturally alongside our other hand-knotted Oriental rugs in scale and finish, with a pile heavy enough to take real traffic for decades.