11116 · 7'11" x 10'1" Persian Arak Oversized Rug
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Large cream palmettes with curling petals open across this remarkable rug. Over a deep red field, cream vines branch out from a small sage rosette at the center, carrying sage flower heads and rust buds. There is no medallion, and the graceful floral repeat mirrors itself from side to side and end to end. Rust and gold palmettes, cut off by the edge, sit in the four corners of the field. The beige main border carries a handsome row of rust palmettes and red-edged blossoms, with sage rosettes set between them. Narrow beige guard stripes dotted with small red rosettes frame it on both sides, and a plain red band runs around the outer edge. The pile is low across the whole rug. It reads as warm and formal, with the cream border and sage flowers cooling all that deep red. At 7'11" by 10'1", 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 Arak 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. Arak in central Persia, once known as Sultanabad, was the center of one of the largest weaving districts in the country. The villages around it sold under their own names, and what they share is an all-over floral field and a restrained palette. This rug keeps that all-over floral field, with cream vines and palmettes spread across the deep red and no medallion at the center. Its colors run to deep red, cream, rust and sage, with touches of gold and dusty rose in the flowers.
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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