11023 · 5' x 8'4" Persian Lilihan Area Rug
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A dark lobed medallion sits at the heart of this lovely rug. Flower heads, leafy sprays and small vases of blossoms cover the dusty rose field, worked in cream, sage and near-black. The medallion has a near-black ground around a cream core and a sage green center, and small floral pendants extend above and below it. Splendid cream spandrels fill the four corners, holding scrolling lobed shapes outlined in near-black with sage and cream blossoms. The handsome main border is near-black, set with cream rosettes, sage flower heads and curling leaves along a vine. Olive guard stripes with small rosettes run on either side of it. The pile is low, and a few patches near one end of the field have worn lower. It holds a warm room together, the dusty rose lifted by cream and steadied by the near-black border. At 5' by 8'4", it fits a bedroom beside the bed, a study under a desk, or a small sitting area.
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 Lilihan rugs
Arak was founded only in 1808, as the town of Sultanabad, the name the carpet trade went on using. A hundred hamlets and villages within a day’s journey of Sultanabad wove rugs for its market, by the count of Walter Hawley, writing in 1913. Lilihan is a village in the Arak district of central Persia, and its weaving is close kin to Sarouk. The field is floral, often on a rose or madder ground. This rug keeps that floral field on dusty rose, with sprays and blossoms filling the space around the medallion. Its medallion and cream spandrels have curved, lobed outlines. The near-black border frames it all, its rosettes and leaves set close along a running vine, with olive guard stripes on either side.
Shipping & delivery
Shipping is free and fully insured in the US and Canada. To the UK, the European Union, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil and Colombia 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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