Name: Ivory Arabesque Medallion
Brand: RUGINZA
SKU: M061926
Price: 1295.0 USD
Availability: InStock

Ivory Kashmiri Silk Rug, medallion design, hand-knotted, 66×98cm

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Size

66×98cm

Color — Ivory

Ivory

Rug material

Silk

Only one available — one-of-a-kind.

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A cream field worked in dense scrolling arabesque — palmettes, curled leaves and small blossoms in apricot, teal, sage and wine — with a small lobed medallion at the centre in apricot and turquoise, pendants reaching from either end. Cream and navy borders of flowering vine frame the whole, closed by fine guard stripes, with silk fringe at both ends.

Hand-knotted in silk. The silk carries the whole design rather than just the highlights, so the surface brightens and dims as you move around it. At 66×98cm this is an extra small rug — a bedside, a side table or a wall piece rather than a floor covering.

Origin: Kashmir
Type: Kashmiri, hand-knotted
Material: 100% silk
Design: Lobed medallion with arabesque field
Size: 66×98cm (2'2"×3'3") — Extra Small
Colour: Ivory
SKU: M061926
One-of-a-kind: Yes

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100% silk pile, hand-knotted, with silk fringe at both ends. 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.

A silk rug of this size is best kept out of a traffic path altogether. Used on a table, at a bedside or hung, it will stay as it is for decades; laid in a doorway it will not. The pile shades wherever it is touched, which is normal and brushes back out with a soft cloth in the direction of the pile.

Hold this rug next to a wool one of the same design and the difference is not the pattern but the number of decisions in it. Silk takes a far finer knot than wool, so the same medallion and arabesque can be drawn with several times as many knots across the same distance — which is why the leaves here have serrated edges you can count and the medallion resolves into a dozen separate rings of ornament rather than three or four. The scale follows from that. At this fineness a rug takes so long to knot that large Kashmiri silks are genuinely rare, and pieces of this size are made to be examined rather than walked on. The other thing silk does is refuse to sit still: because the fibre reflects light along its length, the whole surface brightens and dims as you move, and the apricot medallion that looks warm from one side reads almost pale from the other.

Shipping & Returns

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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