11118 · 7'7" x 10'4" Persian Mashhad Oversized Rug
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A navy and cream medallion sits at the heart of this lovely rug. Set within a burgundy field, a cream frame with curving vine edges shapes the open ground. At the center, a handsome lobed navy star medallion with scalloped cream edges holds a cream star at its core, among leaves and blossoms. A palmette pendant floats above it and another below. Cream spandrels fill the corners, holding brown and sky blue leaf sprays. The main border is navy, set with long cartouches with burgundy cores between rosettes. Guard stripes on either side carry small burgundy rosettes and sky blue leaves. Pale specks dot the field where the pile is low. It brings depth to a dining room, the burgundy and navy kept bright by the sky blue guards. At 7'7" by 10'4", it fits a dining table for four with the chairs pulled out, or a living room with the sofa and chairs fully on it.
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 Mashhad rugs
In 1877 the Qajar shah gave London’s South Kensington Museum 14 carpets chosen by his ministers to represent the best being woven, one of them made in Mashhad. The Textile Museum in Washington counts Mashhad among the Khorasan cities cited as sources of fine carpets. Mashhad is the great weaving city of Khorasan in northeastern Persia, and it specialized in large formats. Its rugs show deep madder red grounds, a single dominant medallion, and borders wide enough to hold their own at scale. This rug shares that plan: one navy medallion on a deep burgundy ground, with a wide navy border holding it all in. Cream spandrels and a cream frame curve around the field, so the red sits as an open shape 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.
Rugs in their new homes
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“Perfection! Such a beautiful vintage rug and is clean and has vibrant colors.”
