11052 · 6'7" x 9'10" Persian Kashan Area Rug
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The red medallion of this lovely rug glows at the heart of a deep blue ground. Worked on a midnight field, graceful scrolling vines carry palmettes, flower sprays and blossoms in muted pink, pale blue and cream. A handsome red medallion, lobed at its edge, holds a cream star at its core, with red pendants reaching above and below it. Cream cartouches filled with flower sprays ring the field near its edge. The wide main border runs on a red ground, set with cream and pale blue palmettes among curling leaves. Guard stripes in cream and pale blue, picked out with small blossoms, frame it on either side. The pile is low across the rug, and a few patches in the field have worn lower. It suits a sitting or dining room, the red frame warming all that midnight blue. At 6'7" by 9'10", 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 Kashan rugs
The story goes that the three Wise Men of the East set out from Kashan to follow the Star of Bethlehem. In the 1600s, when Poland and Persia had close relations, the Polish nobility ordered many gold-threaded rugs from Kashan. Kashan is the central Persian city most associated with the formal Persian rug: a central medallion and a field of curling vine and palmette. These were made as the best rug in a house, and the drawing carries that intent. This rug keeps both parts, a red medallion at its center and a midnight field of curling vines and palmettes. Its wide border repeats the red of the medallion, and a ring of cream cartouches sits between them, lifting the dark ground.
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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