{"product_id":"11204-10x13-persian-handmade-mahal-vintage-rug","title":"11204 - Persian Mahal Oversized Rug 9'9\" x 13'1\"","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\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":68026339197241,"sku":"AL_11204_296x400","price":2800.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1005\/6964\/5369\/files\/11204_1.jpg?v=1794185426","url":"https:\/\/storiedrugs.com\/products\/11204-10x13-persian-handmade-mahal-vintage-rug","provider":"Storied Rugs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}