11200 · 5'5" x 7'5" Persian Vist Area Rug
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A red hexagonal medallion sits at the heart of this lovely rug. Within a midnight field, red stepped forms reach in from the sides holding little trees, and small stars dot the ground between them. The central medallion is a hexagon with a serrated red frame and a sky blue core of red flower heads around a gold center. A red diamond medallion with a sky blue and gold core sits above it and another below, each closed by a small pendant. Red spandrels fill the four corners, holding hooked motifs, small cartouches and gold boteh, the paisley leaf-drop. The handsome deep red border carries gold rosettes between sky blue and gold leaf forms. Gold guard stripes set with small red blossoms run on either side. The pile is low. It settles a quiet corner with deep red and midnight, while the gold and sky blue keep the center bright. At 5'5" by 7'5", it fits a bedroom beside the bed, a study under a desk, or a small sitting area.
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 Vist rugs
In nearby Golpayegan, the Friday Mosque has a Seljuk dome chamber dated by its mihrab inscription to 1114 to 1115. A study calls the Vist rug the best-known rug of the country south and southwest of Golpayegan. Vist is one of the smaller village names in the Persian weaving map. Rugs like this were woven in small numbers for local use rather than for export. What they share is straightforward geometry. This rug shows it clearly, with a hexagon and two diamonds set in a line down the midnight field, framed by stepped red forms reaching in from either side. Its border carries rounder shapes, with gold rosettes and sky blue leaf forms set on deep red.
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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“Perfection! Such a beautiful vintage rug and is clean and has vibrant colors.”
