11213 · 8'1" x 11'5" Persian Kerman Oversized Rug
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A steel blue star medallion holds the center of this lovely rug. Across a muted pink field, sprays of small lavender blossoms circle the center and gather toward the ends. The medallion is a star of graceful steel blue scrolls around a pink core with a rosette, a flower seen from above. Small pendants sit above and below it. Lavender corners hold pink scrolls and flower heads, and they give the field a cusped outline. The handsome main border runs on steel blue, thick with pink blossoms and leaves and broken by lobed pink cartouches set with scrolls. A narrow pink guard stripe with small flowers closes the outer edge. The pile is low, and the foundation shows in places. The dense drawing in steel blue and lavender keeps the pink from going flat and carries a cool note into the room. At 8'1" by 11'5", 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 Kerman rugs
Since the 16th century Kerman has been the origin of highly sophisticated carpets in well-organized designs. Nadir Shah took many of Kerman’s most skilled weavers north after 1739 and the city was pillaged in 1794, yet its rug industry continued to prosper. Kerman in southeastern Persia worked in the softest palette of the major Persian centers: powder blue, ivory, rose and pale green, often on a pale ground. This rug works in that soft range, with a muted pink field and sprays of lavender blossoms. Its design is well ordered: scrolls run through the medallion, the corners and the cartouches, repeated in mirror image from side to side. Steel blue gives it the deeper notes, in the star medallion and the wide border.
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.
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