11130 · 6'11" x 9'2" Persian Torkaman Area Rug
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Rows of octagonal guls give this charming rug its calm, orderly grid. Worked on a smoke gray and sage field, the guls sit one to a compartment, framed by thin beaded lines. Each octagon holds a cream or sage core with a small stepped diamond at its center, and a handsome cartouche sits above and below it. The guls repeat across the field in place of a single medallion, and a few in wine red stand out among the gray and sage. Small checkered triangles in brown fill the gaps between neighboring octagons. The cream main border carries a beautiful chain of rosettes linked by a dark lattice. Narrow brown guard stripes with a small key pattern run on either side of it. The pile is low across the whole rug. It reads as a quiet grid of sage and smoke gray, and the wine red guls give it warmth. At 6'11" by 9'2", it fits a living room with the front legs of the sofa and chairs on the rug, or beside a queen bed.
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 Torkaman rugs
A Yomud main carpet of the mid-1850s at the Cleveland Museum of Art has an aubergine ground, and the decorated skirts at each end are its rarest feature. Turkmen weavers in northeastern Persia work to a strict repeating grid of gul motifs, one octagonal figure repeated across the field with almost no variation. Because the drawing never changes, all the life is in the color. This rug keeps that strict grid, with the same octagonal gul set in every compartment of the field. Its life comes from the cells themselves, which turn between sage, smoke gray and wine red, and from the cream and sage cores at their centers. The wine red guls gather mostly in the upper rows, and a cream border closes the whole grid.
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.
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