{"product_id":"11230-8x11-persian-handmade-hamedan-vintage-rug","title":"11230 - Persian Hamedan Oversized Rug 8'3\" x 11'6\"","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGreek 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.\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":68033560215865,"sku":"AL_11230_252x350","price":2600.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1005\/6964\/5369\/files\/11230_1.jpg?v=1794262155","url":"https:\/\/storiedrugs.com\/products\/11230-8x11-persian-handmade-hamedan-vintage-rug","provider":"Storied Rugs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}