11173 · 9'1" x 11'9" Turkish Isparta Oversized Rug
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A dark plum medallion sits at the heart of this delightful rug. Set in a salmon field, rosettes ringed in rose, lavender and gold float among flower heads, small palmettes and curling leaves. The medallion is a jagged open frame with a small gold device at its core, and a stem of flower heads runs above and below it. Large ragged palmettes sit near the corners, two in gold, one in rose and one in lavender. A handsome lavender border carries a scrolling vine of gold and rose palmettes. Rose guard stripes set with small gold rosettes run on either side of it. The pile is low across the whole rug, and every motif stays clear. It brings salmon and gold warmth into a room, and the lavender border cools it. At 9'1" by 11'9", it fits a dining table for six with the chairs pulled out, or a full living room seating group.
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 Isparta rugs
The carpets of Isparta, known as “Isparta quality,” were famous in the early years of the Turkish Republic. The largest carpet exchange in Turkey in its day was the Isparta Carpet Palace. Isparta lies in the lake country of southwestern Turkey, where workshops through the twentieth century wove floral designs in a distinctly Turkish palette. The palette is chalkier and softer, with more cream and rose. These are town rugs, not tribal ones, so the drawing is orderly. This rug shares that soft palette, with salmon and rose across the field and a lavender border. Its large flowers are set in balanced rows around the plum medallion, with a big ragged palmette near each corner.
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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