An oval rug, woven to shape rather than cut down from a rectangle. The brick red field is packed with flowering vine — palmettes, rosettes, serrated leaves and small blossoms in teal, moss, rose, gold and cream — and at the centre sits a lobed medallion in near-black with an ivory core holding a single rosette. An ivory scrolling frame follows the curve of the field, and beyond it a wide near-black main border of palmettes and flowering vine runs unbroken all the way round. Cream fringe encircles the whole rug.
Hand-knotted in silk at 36/36 quality — 36 knots to the inch in each direction, close to 1,300 to the square inch and something over 1.6 million knots across the oval. The pile carries a directional sheen, so from one end the red warms and deepens and from the other it lightens towards brick. At 87×119cm this works beside a bed, under a small round table, or in an entry. An oval is harder to place than a rectangle — it wants space around it rather than alignment to a wall — but for the same reason it softens a room full of straight lines.
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Type: Hand-knotted pile rug, oval
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Material: 100% silk
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Quality: 36/36 (approx. 1,296 knots per square inch)
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Design: Lobed medallion with all-over flowering vine
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Size: 87×119cm (2'10"×3'11") — Small
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Shape: Oval
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Colour: Brick red and black, with ivory and teal
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SKU: ZINS62342
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One-of-a-kind: Yes