9'3" x 12' Pakistan Oriental Rug | Traditional Red Floral Medallion | 200 KPSI

This is a fine quality hand-knotted piece in the classic large room format, and at roughly 200 knots per square inch it sits well above the weave density of most traditional floor rugs made today. The wool pile is short, tightly packed and already carrying a light sheen, the cotton foundation is straight and true, and the hand-tied ivory fringe at both ends is full and undisturbed because the rug has never been laid in a home. Photographed flat in our Freeport showroom, it reads as a formal, densely drawn floor covering built for a room where the rug is meant to be the anchor rather than an afterthought, and it slots neatly into the popular 9x12 area rug footprint. Every rug we sell ships with a certificate of authenticity confirming it is genuinely hand-knotted, along with its measurements, materials and origin.

Design and Motifs

The drawing follows the classical workshop formula: a lobed central medallion with a pale blue inner disc and an 8 petal rosette at its heart, set on a navy ground and finished with pendant cartouches at top and bottom. Radiating out from it, the field is filled edge to edge with curved vine work, palmettes, split leaves, small rosettes and large curling paisley boteh, all of it mirrored across both axes so the composition reads the same from either end of the room. Four deep navy spandrels close the corners of the field and carry their own scrolling arabesques and ivory blossoms. The border system is a triple arrangement: a wide navy main band of alternating palmettes and rosette clusters, framed by light blue floral guard stripes and a slim ivory outer stripe, with a plain red outer selvedge edge. At 200 knots per square inch the curved line stays genuinely curved, which is where this weave separates itself from coarser traditional rugs.

A Deep Red Field Framed in Navy Blue

Red is the dominant color and it is a true saturated red, warm rather than orange, with a slight ruby depth in the open ground between motifs. Against it, the navy blue of the medallion, spandrels and main border is almost inky, close to black where the pile turns away from the light, and that contrast is what gives the rug its formal presence. The detail work is where the palette opens up: soft light blue and sky blue in the medallion disc and the guard stripes, ivory and cream in the outlining and the smaller blossoms, dusty rose and salmon in the larger palmettes, and quiet sage and olive green in the leaves and vine tips. There is no harshness anywhere in the color, and the wool takes light differently from each direction, so the field reads a shade deeper from one end and brighter from the other.

Made in Pakistan: Weave and Quality

Pakistan's weaving workshops have spent generations building a reputation for fine traditional work, and this rug is a good example of what the better looms there produce: a well spun wool pile on a cotton foundation, knotted tight enough to hold small scale detail across a 9'3" x 12' surface without the pattern drifting. The back is even, the selvedges are firm, and the fringes are an extension of the warp rather than something added later. Buyers often ask us about the distinction between Persian rugs and Oriental rugs, and this piece sits squarely in the second group: a hand-knotted Oriental rug woven in the classical idiom, priced well below a comparable workshop weave of the same density. Compare it against the rest of our hand-knotted Oriental rugs and the value in the knot count becomes obvious.