11221 · 9'10" x 12'8" Persian Mahal Oversized Rug
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Sky blue corners are the first thing to catch the eye on this lovely rug. Within a stone field, graceful scrolling vines carry small blue palmettes and blossoms from edge to edge. At the center sits a lobed gray beige medallion around a star-shaped rosette, with small palmette pendants above and below. The corner spandrels repeat that sky blue, each worked with a dense vine lattice. The main border is a handsome camel band, set with an interlaced vine trellis and a row of blue palmettes and flower heads. Slate blue guard stripes with tiny rosettes run on either side of it. The pile is low across the face. The dense drawing keeps a large room calm, its stone and camel lifted by the blue corners. At 9'10" by 12'8", 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
In the late 19th century the Ziegler company of Arak, then called Sultanabad, was the biggest exporter of oriental carpets from Persia. It had its rugs made less complex than traditional Persian carpets, so that they would not look out of place in European homes. Mahal rugs come from the villages around Arak in central Persia, and they were woven large and open from the beginning. The result is a wide field, plenty of space between the motifs, and a palette that leans soft rather than saturated. This rug has that soft palette, a stone field with sky blue corners and a camel border. Its lobed gray beige medallion holds the center, and scrolling vines carry small blue palmettes and blossoms from edge to edge.
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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