9'6" x 13'2" Kazak Oriental Rug | Caucasian Twin Medallion | Tiger Orange Wool Pile, Brand New

This 9'6" x 13'2" Kazak is a big, confident room-size piece: two ivory latch hook medallions set down a tiger orange field, framed by five bands of border that step from cobalt blue to ivory and back again. It is hand-knotted in wool on a cotton foundation with a 5/16" pile, heavy enough to lie dead flat under furniture and dense enough to take daily traffic in a great room. If you have been reading up on the difference between a village weave and a workshop weave, this is a good example of what a well made modern Oriental rug looks like today. The rug is brand new, never used, and ships with a certificate of authenticity confirming it is 100% hand-knotted.

Design and Motifs

The layout is pure Caucasian: 2 large stepped medallions with serrated latch hook edges, each holding a teal green inner field and a scrolling orange and red rosette at the center, joined along the long axis by a cobalt blue shield panel drawn with small hooked crosses. Around them the field fills with ivory animal-form devices, ram's horn hooks, cloudband scrolls and 8 petal rosettes in teal and gold, all drawn in the straight-line, angular vocabulary that defines this family of geometric rugs. Cobalt blue palmette cartouches anchor the 4 corners of the field. The border system runs 5 bands deep: a wide ivory main border of blue and red 8 pointed star rosettes alternating with orange flowerheads, flanked by narrow rosette stripes and a reciprocal wave guard that repeats at both ends, so the framing reads as heavy and deliberate rather than an afterthought.

The Tiger Orange and Cobalt Blue Palette

The field is a warm tiger orange with a faint brick undertone, the kind of tone that shifts through the day: hotter and more coral under lamplight, deeper and more terracotta in daylight. Against it the cobalt blue does the heavy lifting, appearing in the connecting panels, the corner palmettes, the star rosettes of the main border and the outer guard stripe, so the eye is pulled around the whole rug rather than parked on the medallions. Ivory is the third color and the one that keeps everything legible, outlining the medallions, carrying the main border ground and drawing the small animal figures in the field. Teal green and a soft sea blue cool the medallion centers, while gold, apricot and pale rose flicker through the rosettes and guard stripes in small quantities. The wool takes the dye with a light natural variation across the field, an abrash that gives the orange depth instead of a flat printed look.

Kazak Weaving in Pakistan

Kazak designs come out of the southern Caucasus, where village weavers worked bold medallions and hooked borders in a small number of strong colors. Pakistani workshops, concentrated around Peshawar, adopted that vocabulary decades ago and now produce some of the most consistent hand-knotted work in the market, using durable highland wool, cotton warps and the symmetric knot. You can see the standard on the back, shown in the final photo next to a 12 inch ruler: rows are even, the knot count is steady from selvage to selvage, and the design reads as crisply from behind as it does from the front. The pile is clipped at 5/16", thick enough to feel substantial underfoot and to wear slowly, which is exactly what a rug this size needs. Browse more hand-knotted Oriental rugs if you are comparing weaves at this scale.