11029 · 4'9" x 7'1" Turkish Isparta Area Rug
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A large red stepped medallion sits at the heart of this wonderful rug. At the center, it rests on a dusty blue field filled with rows of pretty sprays in red, sage, gold and cream. The stepped diamond outline runs in cream and red, with tiny blue sprigs set along its inner edge. A handsome core of small rosettes and curling gold scrolls holds a cream center, with a pendant at the top and the bottom. The main border alternates red and pale blue triangles, the red ones holding leafy sage forms and the blue ones cream scrollwork. Dark guard stripes with a wavy cream line frame it on both sides, and a wider patterned band sits just inside them. The pile is high, with a few pale flecks in the blue field. It suits a room of red and blue, where the sage leaves of the border cool the strong red center. At 4'9" 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 Isparta rugs
A single agency in Isparta had about 25,294 square meters of carpet woven in homes in the first half of 1911, the busiest agent of the Oriental Carpet Manufacturers. The Isparta Carpet Palace was in its day the largest carpet exchange in its region and in all of Turkey. Isparta lies in the lake country of southwestern Turkey, where workshops through the twentieth century wove floral designs in a distinctly Turkish palette. These are town rugs, not tribal ones, so the drawing is orderly. This rug shares that orderly drawing, with its small sprays set in straight rows across the blue field. Its red medallion stays open inside, with only a scatter of small sprigs around the core. The sawtooth border of red and pale blue gives the whole rug a lively edge.
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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