{"product_id":"11130-7x9-persian-handmade-torkaman-vintage-rug","title":"11130 - Persian Torkaman Area Rug 6'11\" x 9'2\"","description":"\u003cp\u003eRows 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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.\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":68011566825785,"sku":"AL_11130_210x280","price":1000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1005\/6964\/5369\/files\/11130_1.jpg?v=1794102628","url":"https:\/\/storiedrugs.com\/products\/11130-7x9-persian-handmade-torkaman-vintage-rug","provider":"Storied Rugs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}