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The deep red star at the heart of this remarkable rug catches the eye first. Cream carries the field around it, filled with blue blossoms on copper vines, red rosettes and deep red sprays. The star is lobed and set with navy and rose, and small sage and white birds sit in its arms. A small red and navy diamond pendant caps it above and below. Blue spandrels close the four corners, holding red flower clusters in handsome lobed panels. The main border has a dark brown ground carrying diagonal sprays of blue leaves, red blossoms and orange rosettes. Rose guard stripes with tiny flower heads run along both sides, and a white zigzag line edges the border. The pile is low throughout. It grounds a quiet room, the cream center bright between the blue corners and the dark brown frame. At 5'7" by 7'1", 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 Malayer rugs
Rugs from the villages around Hamedan were taken to the city, long one of the great rug markets of Persia, and were often sold abroad under its name. Malayer sits between Hamedan and Arak in western Persia, which is exactly where its weaving sits too. It joins the village tradition of Hamedan with the floral drawing of the Arak district. The floral side shows plainly here, with blossoms, sprays and rosettes filling the cream field and the blue spandrels. The village side shows in the bold, blocky shapes of the red star and its pendants. Its dark brown border holds rows of flowering plants set on the diagonal, closing the cream and blue center in a deep frame.
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.
Rugs in their new homes
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