11230 · 8'3" x 11'6" Persian Hamedan Oversized Rug
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The cream diamond medallion, set on deep red, is what this lovely rug shows first. At the center, small flower heads and hooked leaves repeat closely over fine lattice lines on a deep red field, which reads burgundy from across a room. The medallion is a handsome cream diamond with stepped edges, holding a small near-black diamond at its core, with a spear-shaped pendant at its top and bottom. Each corner holds a spandrel in two bands, near-black and then cream, closed by a small pink triangle at the outer tip. The main border is cream and carries a graceful deep red vine with small flower heads. Narrow guard stripes set with small cream and red diamonds run on either side of it. The pile is low across the rug, and one large patch beside the medallion has worn down to where the foundation shows. There the red reads paler. It grounds a dining room or a seating area, and the cream border and pink corner tips lift all that deep red. At 8'3" by 11'6", 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 Hamedan rugs
Greek writers credited Deioces, first king of the Medes, with founding Ecbatana around 678 BCE, and modern Hamedan is built partly on the mound that holds its remains. Avicenna, the physician and philosopher, died in Hamedan in 1037, and his tomb there was rebuilt in the 1950s as a mausoleum with a museum and a library. Hamedan is a weaving city and region in western Persia, and for generations hundreds of villages around it have sent rugs to its markets. This rug carries that name with a clear plan: one cream diamond at the center, a red field, and dark corners cut on the diagonal. The small repeat in the field is closely worked, with flower heads and hooked leaves set over a fine lattice. Its pink corner tips and the cream main border give the deep red a lighter frame.
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.
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