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This lovely rug gathers itself around a coral medallion with a cream heart. Over a stone field, graceful vines in muted pink and blue scroll between palmettes, rosettes and small flower heads. At the center, a lobed diamond medallion in coral, outlined in blue, holds a cream core with a small blue rosette, a flower seen from above. Small coral pendants point up and down from its tips. Handsome blue spandrels fill the four corners, each holding cream and coral scrolls. The main border has a coral red ground, carrying cream scrolls, blue palmettes and small flower heads. Blue guard stripes with a fine cream vine run on either side of it, edged by narrow cream lines. The pile is low across the rug, and the design stays clear. It settles into a room with warm stone and coral, while the blue corners and stripes add a cooler note. At 9'9" by 13'1", 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 Mahal rugs
The town of Arak dates only from 1808, when it was founded as Sultanabad, a name the carpet trade kept. A hundred hamlets and villages within a day’s journey of Sultanabad wove rugs for its market, by the count of Walter Hawley, writing in 1913. Woven in the villages around Arak in central Persia, Mahal rugs were large and open from the start. They have a wide field, generous spacing between the motifs, and a palette that leans soft rather than saturated. This rug has that soft palette, coral and muted pink on a stone field, with blue for the cooler notes. Its lobed coral medallion holds the center, and the vine scrolls mirror each other from side to side. Blue spandrels and guard stripes frame the warm stone and coral at the middle.
Shipping & delivery
Shipping is free and fully insured in the US and Canada. To the UK, the European Union, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil and Colombia 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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