9' x 12' Agra Oriental Rug | Pine Green All Over Floral Field | Made in India | Excellent Condition

A room-size traditional Agra in a color combination that is genuinely hard to find: a deep pine green ground carried edge to edge with ivory, camel and sage blossoms, framed by a wide antique gold border. It is hand-knotted in wool on a cotton foundation, with a short even pile that keeps the fine outlining crisp, and it arrives in excellent condition with no repairs, no reweaves and no open areas. Because 9 by 12 is the classic room size, this piece sits naturally among 9x12 Oriental rugs that need to cover a full seating group or a dining table with chairs pulled out. Every rug we ship, including this one, leaves Freeport with a certificate of authenticity confirming it is a genuine hand-knotted piece.

Design and Motifs

There is no medallion here. The drawing is a true all over floral design, built on a lattice of thin curling vines that link large open rosettes, split palmettes, serrated leaves and small five petal blossoms across the whole field. Read along the center line and you find the formal spine of the pattern: a handled vase at each end of the field spilling flowers, a lotus palmette above it, then two large shield shaped medallion flowers set left and right at the waist of the rug, each one enclosing a smaller rosette inside a sage cartouche. The main border runs a repeating 8 petal star rosette alternating with smaller paired blossoms and leaf sprays, and it is fenced on both sides by narrow guard stripes of ivory pearls on a camel ground, a detail that keeps the wide border from looking heavy. Tiny crimson buds and dark red leaf tips are scattered through the field and the border as accents, which is the trick that makes the whole green and gold scheme read warm rather than cold.

The Pine Green and Antique Gold Palette

The field is a dark saturated pine green with a faint blue cast in the shadows, the kind of green that behaves almost like a neutral in a room and lets wood tones and leather sit comfortably on top of it. Against it the florals work through a narrow range of warm tones: soft antique gold, camel, pale sage, light olive and clean ivory, with the ivory used sparingly on the largest rosettes and the central lotus heads so your eye has places to land. The border steps the value up to a muted straw gold that is lighter than the field but never bright, and the guard stripes carry a slightly deeper camel outline that defines the edge. Crimson and oxblood appear only in small quantities, in flower centers, bud tips and the little arrow shaped leaves, and the pile shows gentle variation in the green from the dye lot, visible in the close-up photographs, which is the signature of hand-dyed wool rather than machine uniformity. If you are shopping deliberately within green area rugs, this is the dark formal end of that range rather than a sage or celadon.

Agra Weaving and Indian Workshop Quality

Agra has been a weaving center since the Mughal court set up imperial workshops there in the 16th century, and the vocabulary of this rug, the vase and palmette repeat, the thin connecting vine, the pearl guard stripe, comes directly out of that tradition. This is a modern hand-knotted piece, made in India, and India is where most of the world's good contemporary hand-knotted weaving is now done: trained workshop weavers, hand-spun and hand-dyed wool, and quality control that Western dealers can actually hold to a standard. The construction is honest workshop work on a cotton warp and weft, and the back photograph shows the knot rows straight and tightly packed, with the pattern reading as clearly from the reverse as from the pile side, which is how you check that a rug is knotted rather than tufted or loomed. The wool has a dry matte luster that takes foot traffic well, the pile is clipped low enough to hold the fine outlines, and both ends finish in plain cotton fringe with the original selvages intact. For buyers comparing weaving groups, our guide on what separates a Persian rug from a broader Oriental rug explains exactly where a piece like this one belongs.