{"product_id":"11018-3x8-persian-handmade-torkaman-vintage-runner-rug","title":"11018 - Persian Torkaman Runner Rug 2'9\" x 8'2\"","description":"\u003cp\u003eTwo columns of dark guls run down the red center of this wonderful runner. The deep red field holds them on a strict grid, each gul an octagon in dark brown quartered with cream and red. There is no medallion: the field is an all-over repeat, with small dark cross figures set between the two columns. The main border is a handsome black cherry band, carrying slanting red leaves and cream flecks. Narrow guard stripes in red and black cherry run on either side of it. At each end, a red band carries cream branching figures. From across a room, the whole runner reads burgundy. The pile is low over the whole face. It holds a hallway in warm red, while the cream flecks keep the dark border lively. At 2'9\" by 8'2\", it fits a hallway or the space along the side of a bed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA main carpet was the most important and expensive weaving of every Turkmen tribe, and the main floor covering of the tent. In northeastern Persia, Turkmen weavers keep to a strict grid of gul motifs, the same octagonal figure repeated across the field with almost no variation. That sounds austere, yet it is the opposite, because the drawing never changes and all the life is in the color. This runner keeps that strict grid, with the same octagonal gul repeated in two columns from end to end. Its life is in the red: a deep red field inside a black cherry border, with cream picked out in each gul and at both ends.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery rug we sell is one of a kind, and this is the only one like it. Hand-knotted wool pile on a cotton foundation, vintage, approx. 50 years (1970s). Condition: professionally washed \u0026amp; cleaned. It ships folded and fully insured.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Storied Rugs","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68014038712633,"sku":"AL_11018_85x250","price":1000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1005\/6964\/5369\/files\/11018_1.jpg?v=1794107978","url":"https:\/\/storiedrugs.com\/products\/11018-3x8-persian-handmade-torkaman-vintage-runner-rug","provider":"Storied Rugs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}