11220 · 7'7" x 11'2" Persian Kerman Oversized Rug
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This remarkable rug centers on a pale lobed medallion set on a calm slate blue ground. Boteh, the paisley leaf-drop, and flower sprays fill the edges of the slate blue field in a scalloped wreath, leaving its middle open. The medallion is a handsome lobed oval with pendants at both ends, a sage frame around a cream core and a small rust rosette. Beautiful rust spandrels sit in the four corners, holding cream vine scrolls and sage leaves. The main border has a slate blue ground carrying cream cartouches and square panels, with a square cartouche at each corner. Camel guard stripes, worked with a fine sage scroll and edged in rust, frame it on both sides. The pile is low across the whole rug. It settles a room with cool slate blue against warm rust and camel, and the cream center keeps it light. At 7'7" by 11'2", it fits a dining table for four with the chairs pulled out, or a living room with the sofa and chairs fully on it.
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
Marco Polo, by Walter Hawley’s account of 1913, wrote of the beautiful shawls and carpets made by the women of Kerman. Kerman in southeastern Persia worked in the softest palette of the major Persian centers: powder blue, ivory, rose and pale green. The drawing is curvilinear and open, with more space left empty than a Kashan or a Tabriz would allow. This rug shares that open, curving drawing, with the boteh wreath and scalloped frame circling a wide slate blue ground left clear. Its sage and cream sit close to that soft palette. The border is built in panels, oval cartouches alternating with square tiles, and a boxed square marks each corner.
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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