11099 · 4'11" x 6'3" Persian Ardabil Area Rug
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Four stepped stars run down the center of this wonderful rug in cream and navy. Within a deep red field, small cartouches in navy, pale blue and gold line both sides, each holding tiny rosettes. The two outer star medallions have cream centers edged in navy and gold, and the two inner ones hold navy centers stepped in pale blue. A small diamond sits at the core of each, with little star rosettes set between them. A handsome navy main border carries a stepped, hooked bar and bright sprays in cream, red and gold. A cream guard stripe of red and navy flower heads lines the field, and a gold stripe of tiny red blossoms runs along the outside. Full pile covers the field and the border. It reads as a bright, confident rug, with the navy border framing all that deep red. At 4'11" by 6'3", it fits a bedroom beside the bed, a study under a desk, or a small sitting area.
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 Ardabil rugs
The Ardabil Carpet in London, made for the shrine of the Safavid shahs at Ardabil, carries the year 946 in its inscription, equivalent to 1539-40. After an earthquake damaged the shrine it was sold to a Manchester firm, and the Victoria and Albert Museum bought it in 1893. High in the northwest of Persia, close to the Azerbaijani border, sits Ardabil. District weaving is firmly geometric: stepped medallions, hooked borders, strong contrast. This rug keeps all three, with its column of stepped star medallions, a hooked line running through the navy border, and cream set hard against deep red and navy. The small cartouches along both sides hold tiny rosettes in pale blue, gold and red. They line up with the stars in a calm, steady order, and small star rosettes fill the spaces at the center.
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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