9'2" x 12'3" Oriental Rug | Traditional All-Over Floral | Graphite Black & Ivory | Hand-Knotted in Pakistan

This is a finely drawn traditional Oriental rug, hand-knotted in Pakistan with a wool pile on a cotton foundation, measuring 9'2" x 12'3" in excellent, never used condition. The field reads as a deep graphite black that lifts toward midnight blue in daylight, and it is covered edge to edge with a mirrored all-over floral drawing rather than a central medallion, which makes it one of the easier 9x12 rugs to place in a room where furniture sits on all four sides. The wide ivory border keeps the dark ground from feeling heavy, the pile is even and full with no wear anywhere on the surface, and the cotton fringe is clean and original. Every rug we ship carries a certificate of authenticity confirming it is 100% hand-knotted.

Design and Motifs

The field is an uninterrupted vine scroll that repeats in mirror image along both axes, so the drawing reads the same from either end of the room. Large fan palmettes and lotus blossoms anchor the layout, linked by thin curling stems that carry small 8 petal rosettes, tulip forms, serrated saz leaves and a scattering of ivory cartouche shapes with speckled centers. Curling white cloudband scrolls act as punctuation down the center line, giving the eye something to rest on in a design that otherwise never stops moving. The ivory main border alternates a shield-shaped brick red medallion with a broad palmette and a leaning paisley boteh, all strung on a continuous brown vine, and it is framed on both sides by narrow slate blue and cream guard stripes that repeat a small running flower. The corners are resolved properly, with the border pattern turning cleanly instead of being cut off, which is a reliable sign of a well drawn cartoon and a disciplined weaver.

A Graphite Black Field With Warm Ivory Framing

The ground color is the whole character of this piece. In shade it looks like graphite black; under lamplight or a window it opens up into a deep blue-green ink tone, which is why the close-up photographs look bluer than the overall shots. Against that dark field the flowers are drawn in warm salmon, dusty rose, brick red, taupe and cream, with sage green and soft slate blue in the leaves and in the smaller buds, so the palette stays warm rather than cold. The border is a true cream ivory, calm and lightly abrashed, and the red border medallions carry small blue centers that tie back to the field. The overall effect is a dark, formal, high-contrast rug that anchors a room without introducing a competing bright color, and it sits equally well with walnut and mahogany furniture or with modern black and white cabinetry.

Hand-Knotted in Pakistan: Weaving and Quality

Pakistan's weaving centers around Lahore and Peshawar have built a long reputation for fine traditional floral work on a cotton foundation, and this piece is a good example of that standard: a tight, regular knot, a low clipped pile that holds crisp outlines on small motifs, and straight selvages with no drawing-in along the sides. You can see the density in the back-of-rug photograph, where the knot rows are small and even and the ivory ground of the border stays perfectly legible from the reverse. Wool of this grade takes dye well and burnishes with foot traffic instead of dulling, so a room-size piece like this only improves with use. Browse more hand-knotted Oriental rugs if you want to compare weave and palette before deciding.