11194 · 9'1" x 12'7" Persian Mashhad Oversized Rug
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A blue flower sits at the heart of this lovely rug, ringed in curling cream tendrils. Across a dark brown field, sprays of cream blossoms, curling leaves and small blue flower heads spread out to every side. That flower is the core of a lobed oval medallion in salmon, edged in cream and blue scrollwork, with a small pendant at each end. Beautiful salmon spandrels fill the four corners, each holding a small cartouche outlined in navy. The handsome main border has a salmon ground and carries a vine of palmettes and rosettes in blue, cream and brown. Blue guard stripes with a cream vine run on either side of it, framed by narrow bands of small brown chevrons. The pile is low across the whole rug. It grounds a dining room or a large sitting area, its brown center warmed by the salmon frame and cooled by touches of blue. At 9'1" by 12'7", 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 Mashhad rugs
Imam Riza, the eighth Shi’ite imam, is buried at Mashhad, and the city is a great destination of pilgrims. Walter Hawley, writing on rugs in 1913, traced the variety of Khorasan patterns partly to weavers copying the rugs those pilgrims brought from other provinces. Mashhad is the great weaving city of Khorasan in northeastern Persia, and it specialized in large formats. Its rugs show a single medallion and borders wide enough to hold their own at scale. This rug shares both, with one lobed medallion at its center and a broad frame around the field. Its salmon main border, set between blue guard stripes, carries a full vine of palmettes and rosettes. Inside, sprays of cream blossoms and blue flower heads spread across the dark brown field toward the salmon corners.
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.
Rugs in their new homes
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