9' x 12'2" Jaipur Oriental Rug | Cream & Olive Soltanabad Floral | Hand-Knotted Wool, Never Used

This is a new, never used hand-knotted wool rug from the workshops of Jaipur, drawn in the Soltanabad manner: a cream field carrying an unbroken lattice of large palmettes and curling leaves, closed by a wide floral border and two narrow guard stripes. At 9' x 12'2" it covers a full room without a single repeat falling awkwardly against the edges, which is exactly why weavers keep the drawing this large. The wool has a soft, slightly glossy handle, the cotton foundation is straight and even, and the selvedges and hand-tied ivory fringe are untouched. It sits comfortably beside the more traditional options in our 9x12 area rugs without shouting, because the palette is all earth and shade rather than bright color. Every rug we sell ships with a certificate of authenticity confirming it is genuine hand-knotted work.

Design and Motifs

There is no medallion here. The field runs as a true all-over floral design, built from oversized 8 and 10 petal palmettes, cupped shield blossoms and broad serrated acanthus leaves that hook back on themselves and hand the pattern along to the next repeat. Small 5 petal rosettes and buds fill the gaps so almost no cream is left empty, and the drawing mirrors cleanly across both the long and short axes, which is the mark of a carefully followed graph. The main border carries a single continuous meander of feathered leaves and flowering sprays, interrupted at each of the 4 corners by a small scrolled cartouche motif visible in the corner close-ups. Inner and outer guard stripes repeat a tight rosette and vine chain, and the ivory outermost band lifts the whole frame away from the floor.

The Color Palette in Detail

The ground is a warm cream that pales toward ivory where the pile catches the light and deepens to a soft beige in the shadow of the motifs. Working over it are the palmette colors: a dark cocoa brown at the petal tips, mid olive green through the leaf bodies, tobacco gold and burnt rust in the petal centers, and thin outlines of deep burgundy that give every flower a crisp edge instead of letting it blur into the field. The leaf work shifts between sage and a grayer moss depending on the angle of the light, a natural effect of hand-spun wool taking dye unevenly. The main border sits in that mauve-brown to olive range described above, with golden acanthus sprays and small wine-red blossoms across it, and the guard stripes pick up the same olive and burgundy in miniature. There is no black, no white and no bright primary anywhere, so the rug reads as a quiet, layered neutral in a room.

Jaipur Weaving and Quality

Jaipur, in Rajasthan, is one of the great centers of hand-knotted weaving today, and India is where most of the world's best contemporary Oriental rug production now happens. The workshops there weave on vertical looms with a cotton warp and weft, knot by knot, and the standard of finishing on this piece shows it: an even pile height, level selvedges, a straight rectangle with no drift along the long sides, and a back with clear, regular knot rows as seen in the folded corner photographs. The wool is good quality fleece, long stapled and full of lanolin, so the surface already has a light sheen and will only polish further with use. Nothing about this rug is machine assisted or tufted, and because it has never been on a floor, the full pile depth is still there to spend.