11037 · 7' x 10' Persian Torkaman Area Rug
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Row upon row of guls gives this wonderful rug its steady, graphic rhythm. Deep burgundy carries the whole field, set with oval guls in cream, gold and dark blue. There is no medallion: the guls repeat from end to end, linked by fine dark lines, with small gold cross figures between them. The handsome main border has a black cherry ground carrying cream octagons and star rosettes. Several guard stripes frame it, set with cream sawtooth triangles and small gold blossoms. At each end, a wide panel runs diagonal bands of dark blue, gold and cream. The pile is low across the rug, and a few spots in the field read darker. It suits a room of warm wood, where the gold in each gul lifts all that burgundy. At 7' by 10', it fits a living room with the front legs of the sofa and chairs on the rug, or beside a queen 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 Torkaman rugs
Tekke rugs are the most easily identified of the Turkmen, because the quartered gul of their larger carpets became something of a trademark and was often copied elsewhere. Turkmen weavers in northeastern Persia work to a strict repeating grid of gul motifs. Because the drawing never changes, all the life is in the color. This rug keeps that grid, with one gul repeated in long rows across the field and the same small gold cross figure set between them. Its color sits in the deep burgundy ground, the cream and gold inside each gul, and the black cherry border around them. At both ends, the wide diagonal panels in dark blue and gold close the rug with a darker band.
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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