9'5" x 12'8" Oushak Rug | Rust Burgundy All-Over Vase & Palmette | Fine Silky Ghazni Wool

This is a full room size hand-knotted Oriental rug woven in the Oushak manner, measuring 9'5" x 12'8" and knotted entirely in fine silky Ghazni wool on a cotton foundation. The pile has the glassy, slightly waxy handle that only high-lanolin highland fleece gives, so the rust burgundy field changes tone as you walk around it, reading brick in one direction and soft coral in the other. It is a new weaving with a deliberately mellowed palette, wide enough to sit under a 10 seat dining table or to carry a full seating group among large area rugs without the furniture crowding the border. Every rug we ship leaves Freeport with a certificate of authenticity confirming the size, materials and hand-knotted construction.

Design and Motifs

The field runs as an open, unmedallioned all-over floral design, built on a central column of stacked vases and crowned palmettes that repeats up the length of the rug and mirrors across the width. Broad cream and apricot rosettes float between them, linked by thin vines and long serrated leaves that bend rather than break, which is what separates a drawn Oushak from a stiff copy. The main border is the best part: a generous ivory ground carrying chocolate brown arabesque scrolls that curl into paired hooks at each repeat, alternating with pale green and rose palmette cartouches. Two narrow guard stripes in burgundy and cream frame it on both sides and keep the 4 corners resolving cleanly, with the corner drawing turned properly instead of chopped. Counted across the field there are 3 full vertical repeats of the vase motif, each one slightly varied in the drawing of its handles and crown.

A Rust Burgundy Field With Coral and Apricot Light

The ground is a deep rust burgundy that lifts toward coral and dusty rose wherever the light catches the pile, with faint horizontal abrash banding that proves the wool was dyed in batches rather than machine matched. Against it the ornament is worked in ivory, warm cream and a clear apricot orange that carries the vases and palmette crowns, with smaller touches of soft sage green, celadon and a true grass green picked out in the rosette centers. The border reverses the scheme: a pale gold ivory ground with the scrollwork in chocolate brown, the flowerheads outlined in old rose, and the leaf forms in the same muted sage. Brown is used sparingly as an outlining color throughout, which gives the drawing definition without hardening it. In a room with warm white walls, oak floors or camel upholstery the rug reads as terracotta; against cool grey it pulls noticeably pinker.

Ghazni Wool and the Weaving Behind It

Oushak is a design tradition out of western Anatolia, and today some of the most convincing interpretations of it come from the workshops of Pakistan, where the weavers work on cotton warps with hand-spun yarn and a slightly longer pile than the Turkish originals. The wool here is Ghazni, sheared from highland flocks and prized for its long staple and high natural lanolin, which is exactly why the surface has that silky sheen in the close-up photographs and why the color takes so evenly. The back, shown folded in the gallery, reveals a regular, well packed knot line with straight side selvages and the original flat-woven ends left in place. At 9'5" x 12'8" this is a serious piece of hand work, roughly 120 square feet of knotting, and the weave is tight enough to hold the curved vine drawing without the lines going ragged.