11175 · 9'8" x 12'11" Turkish Isparta Oversized Rug

Gray brown stars and pale blue boteh repeat across this lovely rug in calm rows. From across a room the field reads stone, a pale ground crowded with closely worked flowers. Eight-pointed stars in gray brown with cream centers alternate with lobed cream flower heads outlined in teal and blue. Boteh, the paisley leaf-drop, curl between them with small square dots, and the field is an all-over repeat with no medallion. The wide cream main border carries a row of handsome lobed cartouches, each set between open sprays of teal and blue boteh around a rosette. Narrow gray brown guard stripes, threaded with small teal flower heads, run on either side of it. The pile is low, and a few patches near the edge have worn lower. The dense drawing settles into a pale room, its teal and pale blue sitting easily beside the stone and cream. At 9'8" by 12'11", 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.