Name: Ivory Arabesque Qum
Brand: RUGINZA
SKU: QA5847
Price: 2732.0 USD
Availability: InStock

Ivory Persian Qum Silk Rug, medallion design, hand-knotted, 100×160cm

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Size

100×160cm

Color — Ivory

Ivory

Rug material

Silk

Only one available — one-of-a-kind.

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An ivory field covered edge to edge in fine scrolling floral — palmettes, small blossoms and curled leaves on a web of thin stems — with a radiating medallion at the centre drawn in pale green outline and pendants above and below. The corners are marked only by a shift in the ground from ivory to a pale blue-green, with the same floral running straight across. A wide coral main border of palmettes and cloud-band scrolls frames the field between narrow olive and ivory guard stripes. A small signature cartouche in red script sits in the inner guard at one end, and there is silk fringe at both ends.

Hand-knotted in silk. The medallion and the corner spandrels have no ground of their own — both are made from outline and a change of ground tint, so the field reads as one continuous pattern up close and as a medallion design from across the room. At 100×160cm this is a small rug, suited to a spot in front of a sofa, beside a bed or on a wall.

Origin: Iran
Type: Qum, hand-knotted
Material: 100% silk
Design: All-over floral with radiating medallion
Size: 100×160cm (3'3"×5'3") — Small
Colour: Ivory
SKU: QA5847
One-of-a-kind: Yes

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100% silk pile, hand-knotted in Qum, with silk fringe at both ends and a signature cartouche in the inner guard at one end. Silk is strong in tension but delicate in every other respect — it abrades, it marks with water, and it loses lustre permanently if treated like wool.

At 100×160cm this rug is large enough to use on a floor, but it should be a floor people cross in socks rather than shoes. The ivory field is the palest silk on the rug and takes up most of it, so it will show a spill or a water ring before anything else. The cartouche sits close to the fringe at one end, where wear on a floor rug concentrates.

Look at this rug twice: once standing at one end, and once kneeling beside it. From standing height it is a medallion rug — a radiating star at the centre, pendants reaching up and down, the corners set apart as spandrels. Kneel down and all of that disappears into a single all-over floral, the same small palmettes and blossoms running uninterrupted from the medallion to the border. Both readings are correct, because the workshop never gave the medallion or the corners a ground of their own. The medallion exists only as a pale green outline laid over the field, and the spandrels only as a shift in the ground from ivory to a faint blue-green, with the floral carried straight across the change. Follow any stem from the centre towards a corner and you will find it does not stop at either boundary. It is a subtle way to build a medallion design, and a demanding one: with no solid shapes to hold the composition, it depends entirely on the drawing being even across the whole field.

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Shipping
We ship from Japan to the United States, the United Kingdom and 19 European countries. Shipping is free on orders of ¥150,000 or more (approx. $1,000 / £790 / €920); orders below that ship at a ¥15,000 flat rate (approx. $99 / £79 / €92). Each rug is carefully rolled and wrapped. Orders are dispatched within 3 to 5 business days, then take 7 to 15 business days in transit. Every order ships with tracking. Import duties and taxes may apply in your country; please contact us before ordering for details.

Returns
For a change of mind, contact us within 30 days of delivery. Items must be unused, in original condition and in original packaging. Return shipping is paid by the customer and can be expensive from outside Japan, so please ask us about size or colour before you order. If your rug arrives damaged, defective or not as ordered, contact us with photos within 30 days of delivery: we pay for the return and send a replacement or a full refund.

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