11219 · 9'6" x 12'11" Persian Mahal Oversized Rug
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A blue-ringed medallion sits at the heart of this lovely rug. From across a room the field reads beige, scattered with blue blossoms and vines in gray brown and cream. The cream medallion is a lobed diamond, its blue scrolling ring set around a beige core, with small pendants above and below. Clusters of blue blossoms fill the spandrels at the four corners. A handsome cream main border carries blue palmettes along a graceful scrolling vine, with camel leaves between them. Narrow camel guard stripes, set with small cream rosettes and fine blue lines, run on either side. The pile is low across the rug, and pale specks show where the foundation comes through. The dense drawing settles a room in quiet beige and cream, with touches of blue to lift it. At 9'6" by 12'11", 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 biggest exporter of oriental carpets from Persia in the late 19th century was the Ziegler company of Arak, the town then called Sultanabad. Woven in the villages around Arak in central Persia, Mahal rugs were large and open from the start, with a palette that leans soft rather than saturated. This rug keeps to that soft side, a beige field with cream and blue, scattered with blue blossoms on gray brown vines. Its cream medallion with a blue scrolling ring holds the center, and clusters of blue blossoms fill the corners. The cream border carries blue palmettes on a scrolling vine.
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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