15031 · 5'3" x 8'8" Turkish Isparta Area Rug
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Flowering vines wander across the whole field of this lovely rug. From across a room the field reads beige, and up close it carries rosettes, palmettes and leafy sprays strung on dark burgundy vines. There is no medallion: the flowers repeat from end to end in a calm, balanced order. The flower heads are picked out in slate blue and sage, with a few in dark burgundy. A handsome muted pink border runs a chain of beige palmettes and sage leaves. Narrow guard stripes frame it on both sides, the outer one sage and set with small flowers. The pile is low across the rug, and it has worn thinner around one corner and along the edge beside it, where the foundation shows. It holds a quiet room together, the beige and sage keeping it light while the muted pink border adds warmth. At 5'3" by 8'8", it fits a bedroom beside the bed, a study under a desk, or a small sitting area.
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 Isparta rugs
The Isparta carpet factory, a center of the craft for a wide region, kept working until 2008. The Isparta Carpet Palace was in its day the largest carpet exchange in its region and in all of Turkey. Isparta rugs are town rugs, not tribal ones, so the drawing is orderly and the field tends to read calm from across a room. This rug shares that calm: its flowers and vines repeat in a steady order over a light beige ground, with no medallion to break the field. The muted pink border frames it with a chain of palmettes, and a sage guard stripe runs along the outer edge. Slate blue blossoms, scattered across the field, give the eye small points of depth.
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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