11180 · 8'1" x 11'3" Persian Torkaman Oversized Rug
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Rows of quartered guls in cream and navy march across this lovely rug. Across a deep red field, octagonal guls stand in a strict grid, lobed at the edge and joined by thin dark lines. Two quarters of each gul carry cream hooked forms, and a small navy and green cross sits at its core. The plan is an all-over repeat with no medallion, and smaller diamond guls, hooked in navy, fill the spaces between. A handsome brick red border carries large navy star rosettes, set between smaller round rosettes ringed in green and blue. Narrow guard stripes run on both sides, picked out with pretty flower heads in navy and cream. The pile is low and full across the field and the border. It slips into a dining room or a study, and its brick and navy tones lend the space a steady warmth. At 8'1" by 11'3", 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 Torkaman rugs
The name Bukhara was given to Turkmen rugs in error in the first half of the 20th century, though few Turkmen live around that city. In northeastern Persia, Turkmen weavers keep to a strict grid of gul motifs, the same octagonal figure repeated across the field with almost no variation. That sounds austere, yet the drawing never changes and all the life is in the color. Across a room, a good Torkaman shifts between rust and brick. This rug keeps that strict grid, with the quartered gul repeated row after row and the smaller diamond guls set between. Its color holds the life of it: deep red in the field, a brick red border, and cream and navy lighting every gul.
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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