11080 · 12'2" x 18'1" Persian Mashhad Oversized Rug
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A round red medallion, its core a dark starburst, centers this lovely rug. The dusty blue field is filled with palmettes, diamond lozenges and rosettes on a graceful vine. The medallion keeps its red ground, ringed in petals and small flowers, and cream cartouche pendants sit above and below it. Beautiful camel spandrels fill the four corners with sprays of red and cream flowers. The wide main border has an ink blue ground carrying boteh, the paisley leaf-drop, and rosettes in red and cream. Cream guard stripes set with small red flowers frame it on either side. The pile is low, and a few patches near the center have worn lower. It grounds a large room, where the red and cream warm the cool blue of the field. At 12'2" by 18'1", it fits a dining table for six with the chairs pulled out, or a full living room seating group.
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 Mashhad rugs
Under the Safavid dynasty in the 16th and 17th centuries Khorasan, the province of Mashhad, also took in the cities of Merv and Herat. Travelers of the Safavid era remarked on the fine Khorasan carpets sold in the Persian Gulf port of Hormuz and in one of the main caravansaries of Isfahan. Mashhad is the great weaving city of Khorasan in northeastern Persia, and it specialized in large formats. Its rugs show a single dominant medallion and borders wide enough to hold their own at scale. This rug shares both. One round medallion rules the field, and the ink blue border is wide enough to frame a field this size. Red gathers around the medallion and through the flowers, set against the dusty blue ground, while camel lights the four corners.
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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