11131 · 7'3" x 9'2" Persian Mahal Area Rug
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A big gray medallion, bright with gold, holds the center of this lovely rug. On a burgundy field, most of the ground stays open, with a few small gold sprays and slate blue sprigs around the middle. The handsome medallion is lobed, with a burgundy rosette at its core and four gold cartouches set around it. Gray pendants outlined in gold hang above and below, each holding a gold spray. Large camel spandrels fill the four corners, traced in slate blue vine and holding small slate blue panels with gold sprays. The main border has a camel ground and carries a vine of pretty burgundy and gold flower heads. Gray guard stripes set with small rosettes run on either side of it. The pile is low across the rug. It suits a room of warm wood and brass, with the gold picking up the metal and the gray center cooling the burgundy. At 7'3" by 9'2", 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 Mahal rugs
The town of Arak dates only from 1808, when it was founded as Sultanabad, a name the carpet trade kept. 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 and open from the beginning. This rug shares that open plan, with a wide burgundy field and plenty of space between the medallion, its pendants and the corners. With a design that is not crowded, a Mahal reads calm across a big room. Its color is strong, with bright gold cartouches in the gray medallion and a camel border closing the burgundy field.
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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