11113 · 8' x 10'3" Persian Mahal Oversized Rug
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Sweeping camel and light blue leaves curl through this lovely rug from end to end. At the center, two large palmettes stand back to back on a midnight blue field, wrapped in flowering sprays. There is no medallion, and the design mirrors from one end of the field to the other. Long serrated leaves in camel, light blue and sage curve around more palmettes on either side. Small star flowers and scrolling leaves fill the ground between them. The cream border carries a graceful vine of small rosettes and leaves in midnight blue, camel and light blue. At one end it widens into a handsome panel, set with a large camel palmette, light blue leaves and a midnight blue motif in each outer corner. The pile is low across the face, and the design stays clear throughout. It slips into a dining or living room, the cream and camel lifting all that midnight blue. At 8' by 10'3", 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
In the late 19th century the Ziegler company of Arak, then called Sultanabad, was the biggest exporter of oriental carpets from Persia. 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 from the beginning. This rug shares that large scale, with palmettes and long leaves big enough to read from across a room. Between them, small star flowers, sprays and scrolls fill the midnight blue ground closely, so very little of it stays bare. The cream border holds the whole design, and the deep panel at one end gives the rug a wide pale edge with a camel 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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