11068 · 2'5" x 9'3" Persian Hamedan Runner Rug
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This lovely runner sets bright teal against violet and near-black from end to end. Within a teal field, a column of handsome hexagonal medallions runs down the length, joined point to point. Their grounds change as they go, plum at each end, dark green next, and teal at the center. Each holds stepped diamonds, small flower heads and mirrored hooked forms, with violet outlines. At each end a pointed teal pendant reaches toward the border, set between dark green corners scattered with small diamonds and rosettes. The splendid main border has a teal ground carrying small boxes and hooked figures in violet and dark green. A narrow guard stripe of slanting violet hooks runs inside it, and an outer plum band holds rows of tiny squares. The pile is low across the rug, and a few pale specks show where the foundation comes through. It suits a hall with pale walls, where the teal and violet can set the color for the space. At 2'5" by 9'3", 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
Several generations ago many rugs from the villages around Hamedan were traded through Mosul, and so were known as Mosul rugs. Walter Hawley, writing on rugs in 1913, noted that old Hamedan runners sometimes ran twenty feet or more in length. Hamedan is a weaving city and region in western Persia, and for generations hundreds of villages around it have sent rugs to its markets. Long narrow formats are a Hamedan specialty, woven for the corridors of local houses. This runner is one of those long narrow pieces, its medallions linked in a single column so the design follows the length. Its palette is cool throughout, teal and violet set against dark green and plum, with a teal border closing the field on every side.
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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