11236 · 9'6" x 12'11" Persian Mahal Oversized Rug
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Teal and turquoise cover this charming rug from edge to edge, the pattern traced in near-black. Across a teal field, sprays of leaves, small blossoms and curling stems are picked out in near-black and dark teal. At the center sits a small round medallion with a rosette core, ringed by graceful leaf sprays. The main border is wide, a handsome dark teal band where a turquoise vine rises and falls around oval palmettes in green and near-black. Narrow guard stripes of small flower heads and fine dark lines run on either side of it. The pile is low across much of the field, and pale flecks show where the foundation comes through. The dense drawing settles into one cool tone of teal and turquoise, calm beside white walls, pale wood or brass. At 9'6" by 12'11", 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
The town of Arak dates only from 1808, when it was founded as Sultanabad, a name the carpet trade kept. 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. Mahal rugs come from the villages around Arak in central Persia. This rug keeps its floral sprays set symmetrically around a small round medallion with a rosette core. Its color is one cool range of teal and turquoise from field to border, with near-black giving every leaf and blossom its edge. The wide dark teal border carries a turquoise vine that rises and falls around oval palmettes.
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.
Rugs in their new homes
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