{"product_id":"11023-5x8-persian-handmade-lilihan-vintage-rug","title":"11023 - Persian Lilihan Area Rug 5' x 8'4\"","description":"\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArak 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.\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":68049262641465,"sku":"AL_11023_153x253","price":1750.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1005\/6964\/5369\/files\/11023_1.jpg?v=1794372506","url":"https:\/\/storiedrugs.com\/products\/11023-5x8-persian-handmade-lilihan-vintage-rug","provider":"Storied Rugs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}