9' x 12' Jaipur Oriental Rug | Royal Blue All Over Floral Design | Coral and Gold Borders

This 9' x 12' rug is brand new and has never been on a floor, and the pile still stands up the way it left the loom. It is hand-knotted in soft wool on a cotton foundation, with a deep royal blue field that reads almost black in a shaded room and then opens up to a true blue when daylight crosses it. The drawing is transitional: classical palmettes and scrolling vines handled with a lighter hand than an antique, in a coral and gold palette that sits easily with both period furniture and current paint colors. At 9' x 12' it is the standard 9x12 room size rug that anchors a full seating group with the front legs of the sofa and chairs on the wool. Every rug we ship travels with a certificate of authenticity confirming it is genuinely hand-knotted.

Design and Motifs

The field carries an all over floral design rather than a single central medallion. Heavy ivory vines sweep through the blue in long curves, dividing the ground into soft ogee compartments, and each compartment is filled with a serrated lotus palmette, a fan of leaves, or a cluster of small blossoms. Round gold rosettes sit at the junctions of the vinework, the largest of them an 8 petal rosette with a red and pale blue center that behaves like a small repeating medallion across the whole field. Smaller orange rosettes, 4 pointed star flowers and tiny leaf buds fill the spaces between, so there is very little empty ground anywhere. The main border reverses the scheme: large sunflower style palmettes and dark cartouches alternate on coral, with a gold cartouche at each of the 4 corners, and the gold guard stripes on either side run a quiet meander of rosettes and leaves. Ivory cotton fringe finishes both ends over a plain navy end band.

The Royal Blue, Coral and Gold Palette

Color is the reason this piece works so hard in a room. The ground is a dark royal blue with real depth in it, close to ink at the base of the pile and visibly blue at the tips, which is what gives the flowers their glow rather than the flowers being especially bright on their own. Against that blue the drawing runs warm: ivory and cream for the vines and the outer petals, saffron and deep gold for the rosettes and the guard borders, soft salmon and peach for the big serrated palmettes, and brick red outlines that keep every motif crisply defined. Sage and olive green leaves cool the composition down at intervals, and small touches of pale sky blue appear in the flower centers. The main border is a muted coral with a terracotta cast, a warmer and softer red than a classic crimson, which is what allows the gold to sit beside it without shouting. Because the wool is soft and takes a sheen, the field shifts tone as you walk around it, lighter from one direction and near black from the other.

Woven in Jaipur, India

Jaipur, in Rajasthan, is one of the great modern weaving centers, and India is now where most of the world's good contemporary hand-knotted work is produced. The knots here are tied by hand, row by row, on cotton warps, then beaten down and clipped to an even medium pile, which you can see on the folded edge where the wool stands thick and dense and the back shows clean, regular rows. The wool is chosen for softness and luster rather than sheer hardness, so the rug feels good underfoot while still holding the fine outlines of the vines and the small blossoms. If you are weighing this against a village or city weave from another country, it helps to understand what the trade means by an Oriental rug and where Indian workshop weaving sits within that family. This one is honest hand-knotted workshop production, in perfect unused condition, at a size and palette that most collections never find in the same rug.