







11112 · 8' x 10'2" Persian Mahal Oversized Rug
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Large rust and steel blue blossoms are spread across this wonderful rug with room between them. From across a room the field reads dusty blue, a pale gray blue ground set with large palmettes and rosettes in rust, burgundy and steel blue. There is no medallion: the field is an all-over plan, with a beautiful lobed camel rosette at its center and graceful vines tying the flowers together. Small blossoms and a few coiled spirals fill the open ground. The main border is wide and shares the pale blue ground, with large rosettes in burgundy, steel blue and camel set between rows of small blossoms on thin stems. Rust guard stripes frame it on both sides, each carrying tiny flower heads and a fine blue line. The pile is low across the whole rug. It slips into a quiet room, where the dusty blue ground cools the rust and burgundy flowers. At 8' by 10'2", 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 Mahal rugs
The biggest exporter of oriental carpets from Persia in the late 19th century was the Ziegler company of Arak, the town then called Sultanabad. A hundred hamlets and villages within a day’s journey of Sultanabad wove rugs for its market, by the count of Walter Hawley, writing in 1913. Mahal rugs come from the villages around Arak in central Persia, and they were woven large and open. That means a wide field, generous spacing between the motifs, and a palette that leans soft rather than saturated. This rug has that wide field, with each big flower set apart on the dusty blue ground. Its border repeats the field’s pale blue, so the rosettes and blossom rows read as one calm frame around 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.
Rugs in their new homes
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