11139 · 6'9" x 9'3" Persian Ardabil Area Rug
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A large burgundy medallion holds the center of this lovely rug. Within a beige field, stepped figures in burgundy, slate blue and olive are set out with open ground between them. The medallion has a notched, stepped outline edged in slate blue, and a cream hooked star fills it around a small burgundy core. Handsome cross-shaped pendants reach out at the top and the bottom, each ending in a small diamond. Smaller hooked diamonds in burgundy flank the medallion on both sides. Toward each corner of the field sits a beautiful burgundy cartouche with a slate blue cross inside and an olive outline. The main border has a beige ground carrying a row of separate octagons, burgundy and slate blue in turn, each holding a cream hooked cross. Guard stripes on both sides of the border run small burgundy and blue triangles between fine cream dots. The pile is low throughout, and the beige field shows paler patches in places. It settles into a sitting room, where the slate blue cools the burgundy and the beige keeps it light. At 6'9" by 9'3", 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 Ardabil rugs
The Safavid shahs descended from a long line of Sufi shaikhs who kept their headquarters at Ardabil. The famous Ardabil Carpet has a twin, made for the same shrine at Ardabil and kept today in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Ardabil sits high in the northwest of Persia, close to the Azerbaijani border. The weaving of the district is firmly geometric, with stepped medallions and strong contrast. This rug keeps that stepped medallion at its heart, with burgundy and slate blue set hard against a beige ground. Its border is a row of separate octagons spaced along the beige, burgundy and slate blue in turn. Each octagon holds a cream hooked cross with a small gold center. Open beige ground around every figure lets the layout read clearly.
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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