{"product_id":"11042-8x10-persian-handmade-joshaghan-vintage-rug","title":"11042 - Persian Joshaghan Oversized Rug 7'7\" x 10'2\"","description":"\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\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":68008767095097,"sku":"AL_11042_230x310","price":2800.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1005\/6964\/5369\/files\/11042_1.jpg?v=1794093175","url":"https:\/\/storiedrugs.com\/products\/11042-8x10-persian-handmade-joshaghan-vintage-rug","provider":"Storied Rugs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}