11209 · 8' x 11'2" Persian Mashhad Oversized Rug
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A ring of lattice-filled cartouches circles the medallion of this lovely rug. On a navy field, small red and cream blossoms crowd every open space. The medallion at the center is a cream rosette with a dark core, circled by red vases and light blue palmettes. Around it, each cartouche takes a paisley shape and holds a brown lattice. Handsome deep red spandrels fill the four corners, each with a flower basket woven in brown lattice. Along the lobed edge of the navy field, ovals of cream blossoms sit inside light blue outlines. The navy main border carries cream rosettes and red palmettes, linked by graceful scrolling leaves in light blue. Cream guard stripes set with small red rosettes run along both sides of the border. The pile is low in two patches of the navy field, where the foundation shows. It suits a formal dining room, where the navy center and deep red corners give the table a rich frame. At 8' by 11'2", 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
Travelers of the Safavid era remarked on the fine Khorasan carpets sold in the Persian Gulf port of Hormuz and in one of the main caravansaries of Isfahan. The Herat carpets are the classic carpets of Khorasan, and pieces in the herati pattern survive from the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Mashhad is the great weaving city of Khorasan in northeastern Persia, and it specialized in large formats. Its rugs show a single dominant medallion and borders wide enough to hold their own at scale. This rug shares that plan, with one medallion at the heart of the navy field and a wide navy border around it. Deep red sits in the four spandrels, the vases around the medallion and the border palmettes, so red and navy answer each other across the rug.
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.
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