9'6" x 13'6" Indian Jaipur Rug | All Over Floral Vine Design | Gold Border | New

This is a large, serious, hand-knotted Jaipur room size rug: 9'6" x 13'6" of wool pile on a cotton foundation, woven in India in the classic Mughal floral manner and never used. The field is almost black, with a deep green cast that shifts toward teal where the light catches the pile, and it is filled edge to edge with a flowering vine drawn in gold, rust, olive and beige. The wool has a dry, lustrous handle and the pile is full, with no thinning, no repairs and no color run anywhere on the piece. As a hand-knotted Oriental rug, it ships with a certificate of authenticity confirming origin, materials and construction.

Design and Motifs

There is no medallion here. The drawing is a true all over floral design, a continuous scrolling vine that runs corner to corner and repeats without ever quite showing you the repeat. Along it sit open palmettes, cupped blossoms seen in profile, 8 petal rosettes, tulip forms and long serrated leaves that curl back on themselves, each one outlined so the shape reads clearly against the dark ground. The main border carries a broad gold band of alternating palmettes and leafy scrolls, framed by narrow rust guard stripes and an inner minor border of small paired blossoms on a soft sage ground. Because the field has no center point, the rug can be turned any direction under a table or seating group and the pattern still works, which is a practical advantage in a 13'6" length.

The Color: Black Ground with Rust, Olive and Gold

Black is the dominant color and it is not a flat black. Seen close, as in the pile detail photos, the ground is a dark, smoky green-black that reads nearly charcoal in shade and lifts to a muted deep teal in direct light, with fine abrash striations left by the hand-spun yarn. Against it the vine work glows: warm gold and old-brass tones on the stems and larger palmettes, soft beige and ivory on the leaf edges, olive green through the foliage, and small hits of rust and deep raspberry red at the flower centers that keep the whole field from going monochrome. The wide main border shifts the balance, putting gold and apricot forward with sage and red accents, so the rug frames itself in warmth and keeps its dark center. It is a room-anchoring palette that sits well with walnut, brass, oxblood leather and cream upholstery.

Woven in Jaipur, India

Jaipur, in Rajasthan, is one of the workshop centers that has made India the source of most of the world's good contemporary hand-knotted weaving. The tradition there goes back to the Mughal court ateliers, and the vocabulary of this rug, the palmette and vine, the scrolling border, is directly descended from that work. This piece is knotted on a cotton warp and weft with a firm, even handle, a flat and true back, straight selvages and clean unclipped fringe, all visible in the fold and corner photos. The pile is medium, dense enough to take heavy traffic under a dining table and soft enough to feel good underfoot in a sitting room. For buyers shopping the 10x14 rug size, this one covers a large room properly, with enough width to keep all four chair legs of a big seating group on the wool.