11215 · 8'8" x 11'9" Persian Kashan Oversized Rug
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A ring of teal and dark blue rosettes circles the center of this lovely rug. Worked on a mid gray field, graceful curling vines carry gray brown leaves and small blossoms out from the middle. The medallion is an open round of leafy scrolls, with a teal and dark blue rosette at its core. Beaded oval rosettes sit on all four sides of it, and teal boteh, the paisley leaf-drop, curl between them. Smaller dark blue flower heads are scattered through the gray around them. Handsome scalloped spandrels fill the corners, thick with charcoal and gray brown vines and blossoms. The pile is low across the face, and the foundation shows in pale patches toward one end. It holds a calm gray and charcoal room together, and the teal rosettes give the eye a place to rest. At 8'8" by 11'9", 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 Kashan rugs
In the 1600s, when Poland and Persia had close relations, the Polish nobility ordered many gold-threaded rugs from Kashan. When rugs of that kind were first shown at the Paris exposition of 1878, they were taken for Polish work. Kashan is the central Persian city most associated with the formal Persian rug, with a central medallion, spandrels in the corners, and a field of curling vine and palmette. These rugs were made as the best rug in a house, and the drawing carries that intent. This rug keeps all three: the round medallion at the center, the scalloped spandrels and the curling vine across the field. Its colors stay cool and close, with teal and dark blue picked out against the mid gray and charcoal.
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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