{"product_id":"11196-9x12-turkish-handmade-isparta-vintage-rug","title":"11196 - Turkish Isparta Oversized Rug 8'6\" x 12'","description":"\u003cp\u003eA red and cream medallion at the heart of this lovely rug catches the eye first. Over a deep indigo field, graceful copper vines curl out in long branches, set with palmettes, rosettes and small flowers in red, cream and light blue. The medallion is a lobed diamond, a ring of red scrolls around a cream core with a star rosette at its center. A red pendant sits above and below it, and the vines spring from each one. Cream spandrels with looping scrolls frame the field, and a red piece closes each outer corner. A handsome red border carries cream-edged palmettes in light blue, linked by a scrolling indigo vine. Narrow guard stripes in cream and red, set with small flower heads, run on either side of it. The pile is low across the rug, and the foundation shows in places. It settles a room in deep indigo and red, and the cream spandrels lighten the whole. At 8'6\" by 12', it fits a dining table for six with the chairs pulled out, or a full living room seating group.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIsparta was one of only five places where the Oriental Carpet Manufacturers, the big carpet exporter of the day, had workshops of its own in 1909. Until 2008 the Isparta carpet factory was still working, a center of the craft for a wide region. Isparta sits in the lake country of southwestern Turkey, and its workshops spent the twentieth century weaving floral designs in a distinctly Turkish palette. These are town rugs rather than tribal ones, so the drawing is orderly. This rug keeps that order, with a lobed red and cream medallion at the center and a red pendant above and below, from which long copper vines branch across the deep indigo field. Cream spandrels with looping scrolls frame the field, and the red of the medallion returns in the border.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery 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 \u0026amp; cleaned. It ships folded and fully insured.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Storied Rugs","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68026236567865,"sku":"AL_11196_260x366","price":3200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1005\/6964\/5369\/files\/11196_1.jpg?v=1794180637","url":"https:\/\/storiedrugs.com\/products\/11196-9x12-turkish-handmade-isparta-vintage-rug","provider":"Storied Rugs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}