11067 · 3'1" x 10' Persian Hamedan Runner Rug
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A tall column of stepped medallions runs the length of this charming runner. On a dusty rose field, small hooks, crescents and tiny diamonds are scattered on both sides of a thin central pole. Three medallions sit on that pole: two near-black hexagons with serrated edges, each holding a cream diamond pieced with orange and near-black triangles. Between them sits a beautiful camel medallion with hooked corners and a near-black diamond core. Stepped pendants in near-black, cream and orange link them down the center, with a cream one at one end and an orange one at the other. The main border has a handsome near-black ground, set with a row of cream-framed squares, each holding a small triangle in orange, cream or near-black. A narrow cream guard stripe edges the border on both sides. The pile is low across much of the field, with pale flecks where it runs lowest. It settles into a narrow passage, its near-black border closing in the warm dusty rose and camel. At 3'1" by 10', it fits a hallway or the space along the side of a 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 Hamedan rugs
Ecbatana, the ancient city beneath Hamedan, fell to Cyrus the Great in 550 BCE and to Alexander the Great in 330 BCE. Avicenna, the physician and philosopher, died in Hamedan in 1037, and his tomb there was rebuilt in the 1950s as a mausoleum with a museum and a library. Hamedan is a city and weaving region in western Persia, and hundreds of villages around the city have sent rugs to its markets for generations. Long narrow formats are a Hamedan specialty, woven for the corridors of local houses. This runner keeps to that long narrow format, with its medallions strung one after another down a single pole. Its border is a steady march of cream-framed squares on near-black, and the dusty rose field around the medallions is dotted with small hooks and crescents.
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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