11259 · 9'10" x 13'4" Persian Kerman Oversized Rug
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A blue-edged wine red medallion sits at the heart of this lovely rug. The cream field stays open, with graceful brown leafy vines curling out from the center. Rounded sprays of rose, blue and green flowers ring the outer field. The medallion is a lobed, stepped shape on a wine red ground, crowded with blue, rose and cream blossoms around a rose rosette at its core. A small wine red pendant sits above it and another below, each holding blue flowers. The handsome border carries a scalloped inner band in blue and wine red, studded with cream flower heads. A narrower outer band of small rose, green and cream blossoms closes the edge. The pile is low across the rug. It reads as a light, open center held by deep color, with the blue cooling the wine red. At 9'10" by 13'4", 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 Kerman rugs
Marco Polo, by Walter Hawley’s account of 1913, wrote of the beautiful shawls and carpets made by the women of Kerman. Since the 16th century Kerman has been the origin of highly sophisticated carpets in well-organized designs. Kerman in southeastern Persia worked in the softest palette of the major Persian centers: powder blue, ivory, rose and pale green, often on a pale ground. The drawing is curvilinear and open, with more space left empty than a Kashan or a Tabriz would allow. This rug shares that open ground, with wide cream spaces between its curling vines and the sprays at its edge. Its medallion and border are set in deep wine red, with blue running through both around the light center.
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.
Rugs in their new homes
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