{"product_id":"11113-8x10-persian-handmade-mahal-vintage-rug","title":"11113 - Persian Mahal Oversized Rug 8' x 10'3\"","description":"\u003cp\u003eSweeping 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery 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 \u0026amp; cleaned. It ships folded and fully insured.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Storied Rugs","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68009173090617,"sku":"AL_11113_243x312","price":3175.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1005\/6964\/5369\/files\/11113_1.jpg?v=1794097425","url":"https:\/\/storiedrugs.com\/products\/11113-8x10-persian-handmade-mahal-vintage-rug","provider":"Storied Rugs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}