11042 · 7'7" x 10'2" Persian Joshaghan Oversized Rug
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A large stepped diamond, edged in cream zigzags, catches the eye first on this lovely rug. From across a room the field reads burgundy, crowded with small flowering plants, rosettes and tiny stars. At its heart sits a handsome near-black stepped medallion with an orange core and a small pendant at its top and its bottom. Steel blue spandrels fill the four corners, scattered with little burgundy, orange and cream flowers. The main border has a near-black ground carrying a row of cream and orange cartouches, with small cream sprigs between them. Narrow guard stripes of cream chain run on either side. The pile is low, and a few patches in the field and along one end of the border have worn lower. It holds a dining room or a sitting area, the steel blue corners cooling all that burgundy. At 7'7" by 10'2", it fits a dining table for four with the chairs pulled out, or a living room with the sofa and chairs fully on it.
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 Joshaghan rugs
In the reign of Nadir Shah the carpet weaving of the Joshaghan district received a new impulse, and it flourished until nearly the middle of the 19th century. A century before Walter Hawley wrote on rugs in 1913, the Joshaghan district was weaving some of the best carpets of Persia. Joshaghan sits north of Isfahan in central Persia. This rug carries small stylized flowering plants across its whole field, set in loose rows on the burgundy and on the steel blue corners. One large stepped diamond gathers them, edged in cream zigzags, with the near-black medallion at its center. The border picks up the same cream and orange in its cartouches, and the guard stripes repeat a fine cream chain. Seen whole, the rug reads as pattern rather than picture.
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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“just as described. Actually more beautiful in person”
