11022 · 3'1" x 9'8" Persian Shiraz Runner Rug
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A column of navy and cream diamond medallions runs down the center of this lovely runner. Within a deep red field that reads burgundy from across the room, small flower heads, sprays and triangular plant forms are scattered on every side. The stepped medallions alternate in color, each holding a red hooked cross around a small diamond core. At each end the red narrows to a stepped point, and navy spandrels hold a handsome round rosette in each corner. The main border is cream, set with a graceful vine of dark red flower heads and diamonds. Inside it runs a navy band of paired boteh, the paisley leaf-drop, in cream, red and teal along a thin stem. Narrow red guard stripes edge both bands. The pile is low across the rug. It brings a long line of red and navy into a passage, and the cream border keeps its edges light. At 3'1" by 9'8", it fits a hallway or the space along the side of a bed.
Every 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 & cleaned. It ships folded and fully insured.
About Shiraz rugs
Shiraz was the capital of Persia from 1760 to 1779, in the reign of Karim Khan. The Qashqai tribal confederacy was formed in the late 18th century, during or just after the rule of Karim Khan Zand in Shiraz. Shiraz is the market city of Fars province in southern Persia, and rugs sold under its name were woven by the tribal and village weavers of the surrounding country. The drawing is geometric, and no two are laid out quite the same way. This runner keeps that geometric drawing, with stepped diamond medallions, stepped spandrels and small plant forms set square in the red. Its own layout strings the medallions in a single column, navy and cream in turn, closed at each end by a stepped point.
Shipping & delivery
Shipping is free and fully insured in the US and Canada. To the UK, the European Union, Australia and New Zealand we ship fully insured, with rates calculated at checkout. Orders are processed and shipped within one to four days and most arrive within about ten days, sometimes as fast as three depending on your location, carefully wrapped, with tracking sent the moment your rug leaves us.
Full shipping detailsAuthenticity
Every rug is an original, hand-knotted vintage piece, never machine-made, printed or reproduced. We inspect and photograph each rug in our own studio, so the piece you see is the exact piece you receive.
Our authenticity promiseCare & cleaning
Vacuum gently, rotate every few months, blot spills immediately and use a quality rug pad. Have it professionally cleaned every few years, never machine-washed.
Full care guideReturns
If a rug isn’t right for your space, get in touch within 7 days of delivery (14 days in the European Union) and we’ll help arrange a return or exchange. Because each piece is one of a kind, we handle every return personally.
Returns & exchangesMade entirely by hand.
Every knot in this rug was tied by hand, one at a time, on an upright loom. A piece like this is the work of two or three weavers sitting side by side for months, wool worked row by row into a pattern carried from memory, its colors softened by decades of light and use. Nothing about it was quick, and no two are ever the same.
The kind of thing that only gets better with age, and quietly passes from one home to the next.
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