9' x 11'10" Oriental Rug | Kermanshah Floral Medallion Design | Lustrous Dense Wool, Never Used

This is a brand new, never used hand-knotted piece that measures 9' x 11'10", woven in the classic Kermanshah floral medallion layout on a burgundy ground. The wool is the first thing you notice in person: a dense, deep pile with a genuine sheen that shifts from wine to near black as you walk past it, laid over a cotton foundation with hand-tied ivory fringe at both ends. Drawing this fine on an all-over field takes an experienced weaver, and the corners resolve cleanly, the borders meet square, and the medallion sits true to center. As a proper Oriental rug rather than a machine copy, it ships with a certificate of authenticity confirming the hand-knotted construction, materials and origin.

Design and Motifs

The center holds a dark eight lobed medallion filled with cream arabesques curling around a small brown and black rosette core, with a 8 petal blossom repeated at the axis points. Radiating out from it are pendant cartouches, quartered cream lozenges and small paired square panels that punctuate the field at regular intervals, a device that keeps a busy all-over layout legible. The rest of the burgundy ground is covered edge to edge in thin scrolling vines, serrated leaves, tulips, palmettes and single large boteh forms in the corners, an all-over floral design drawn small enough that new details keep appearing the longer you look. The border system runs 5 bands deep: a wide black main border of linked palmettes and cream cypress and boteh medallions, framed by narrow reciprocal guard stripes in salmon, olive and ivory that give the whole rug a firm outline.

The Burgundy, Black and Cream Color Story

The field is a true burgundy, closer to bottled wine than to bright red, and because the pile is lustrous it reads lighter where the nap lies away from you and almost black where it lies toward you. Against that ground the palette is deliberately restrained and warm: cream and ivory carry the medallion and the corner boteh, beige and honey gold fill the leaf work, and soft brown and rose salmon shade the palmettes and the inner guard bands. The main border is black with a deep navy cast, which is what makes the cream border medallions read so crisply in the close-up photographs. Threads of muted green appear throughout the vine scroll and in the thin outer stripe, the coolest note in an otherwise warm scheme, and a handful of tiny pink and pale blue flower heads sit scattered through the guard borders. It is a dark, formal rug that gives back light rather than swallowing it.

Kermanshah Design and Indian Weaving Quality

Kermanshah names the drawing style here, not the origin: this rug was made in India, which is where most of the world's best contemporary hand-knotted work now comes from. The weaving centers of northern India have spent decades building workshops that handle classical curvilinear cartoons at a knot count fine enough to hold a vine this thin, and this piece shows it in the even knotting visible on the folded back, the tight selvages and the straight sides on a rug nearly 12 feet long. The pile is generously packed, which is what gives a rug this size the weight and drape that keeps it flat. If you are shopping the 9 x 12 size class, this one sits at the serious end for wool quality and drawing density.