{"product_id":"11222-9x14-persian-handmade-mahal-vintage-rug","title":"11222 - Persian Mahal Oversized Rug 9'3\" x 13'7\"","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis lovely rug centers on a cream star set inside a rose medallion. Over a beige field, graceful scrolling vines carry palmettes and rosettes in rose, cream, blue and pale green. The medallion has a lobed outline, its rose ground worked with fine blue scrolls around the cream star at its core. Handsome blue and cream spandrels fill the four corners, set with lobed flower heads and small green sprays. The main border is rose, with a row of blue and cream rosettes joined by a pale vine. Guard stripes of blue scrolling vine run along either side of it. The pile is low across the face. The dense drawing settles into a calm beige from across the room, while the rose border and blue corners give it a soft frame. At 9'3\" by 13'7\", it fits a dining table for six with the chairs pulled out, or a full living room seating group.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArak was founded only in 1808, as the town of Sultanabad, the name the carpet trade went on using. Walter Hawley, writing on rugs in 1913, counted a hundred hamlets and villages within a day’s journey of Sultanabad weaving rugs for its market. Woven in the villages around Arak in central Persia, Mahal rugs have a palette that leans soft rather than saturated. This rug keeps to that soft side, with cream and rose carried through the medallion, the border and the scrolling vines of the beige field. Its lobed rose medallion holds a cream star at the center, and blue gathers in the four corners and the guard stripes, a cool note around the rose border.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery 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 \u0026amp; cleaned. It ships folded and fully insured.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Storied Rugs","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68031387468089,"sku":"AL_11222_282x413","price":2650.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1005\/6964\/5369\/files\/11222_1.jpg?v=1794212944","url":"https:\/\/storiedrugs.com\/products\/11222-9x14-persian-handmade-mahal-vintage-rug","provider":"Storied Rugs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}