11090 · 7'5" x 13'7" Persian Torkaman Oversized Rug
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Rows of cream and orange guls give this lovely rug its steady, glowing rhythm. The black cherry field carries the octagonal guls in straight columns, each with a near-black core and small diamond figures set between. There is no medallion; the field is an all-over repeat of the gul from end to end. The main border has a near-black ground and runs a handsome chain of octagons and pretty star rosettes in cream, orange and red. Narrow guard stripes of small cream and rust figures run on either side of it. At each end, a wide band of slanting cream branches closes the design. The pile is low across the field, and the red reads paler in a few patches. It settles a dining room or a study, the cream and orange guls brightening all that deep red. At 7'5" by 13'7", it fits a dining table for four with the chairs pulled out, or a living room with the sofa and chairs fully on it.
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 Torkaman rugs
A main carpet was the most important and expensive weaving of every Turkmen tribe, and the main floor covering of the tent. Each Turkmen tribe had its own main gul, its most important symbol, and the flag of Turkmenistan shows the five guls of the five main tribes. In northeastern Persia, Turkmen weavers keep to a strict grid of gul motifs, the same octagonal figure repeated across the field with almost no variation. The drawing never changes, and all the life is in the color. This rug keeps that strict grid, its octagonal guls set in straight columns over the black cherry field. Its color lives in the cream and orange highlights inside each gul and in the star rosettes of the near-black border. A wide band of slanting cream branches closes each end.
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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