Rare Purple Hand-Knotted Persian Design Wool Rug, Pakistan
Rare Purple Hand-Knotted Persian Design Wool Rug, Pakistan
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- 222 x 108 cm (7 ft 3 in x 3 ft 7 in), 2.4 sqm
- Wool pile on cotton foundation, hand-knotted
- Woven in Pakistan
- Free worldwide shipping with tracking
- 30-day returns
- Lifetime warranty*
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Hand-knotted Persian-design wool rug, woven in Pakistan. Size 222 × 108 cm. 100% wool. Rare purple field with gold, ivory, and navy.
What the wool is
Wool is the fiber of fine hand-knotted carpets: soft, strong, warm, and able to hold color. It springs back after you walk on it and lasts for decades.
The purple field is the rare part. Most garden rugs are red or navy. A full purple ground is hard to dye evenly. Gold and ivory flowers stand on it like lamp-light in a night garden.
What the design is in the real world
This is a Persian garden in miniature. The central medallion is the pool or pavilion. Vines and blossoms fill the field, the old picture of a walled paradise with water in the middle and plants that do not die. The dark border is the garden wall. A runner this size belonged beside a bed, in a hall, or at the edge of a larger room: a garden you pass through every day.
What the design is in the inner world
The medallion is the still point, the heart. The vines moving out from it are life given a center. Purple here is dusk, the hour when a garden goes quiet and the pattern is easiest to see. Order, peace, and a house that feels complete.
Why it mattered to weavers and the culture
A weaver shows skill when both ends of the rug match and the medallion sits true. Garden language is a kept poem, not a new invention each morning. Finishing a rare color on a full field is pride of the dye-pot as much as the loom.
Rare purple. Persian garden. Hand-knotted wool. Brand new. One of a kind. Free worldwide shipping.
Description
What the wool is
Wool is the fiber of fine hand-knotted carpets: soft, strong, warm, and able to hold color. It springs back after you walk on it and lasts for decades.
The purple field is the rare part. Most garden rugs are red or navy. A full purple ground is hard to dye evenly. Gold and ivory flowers stand on it like lamp-light in a night garden.
What the design is in the real world
This is a Persian garden in miniature. The central medallion is the pool or pavilion. Vines and blossoms fill the field, the old picture of a walled paradise with water in the middle and plants that do not die. The dark border is the garden wall. A runner this size belonged beside a bed, in a hall, or at the edge of a larger room: a garden you pass through every day.
What the design is in the inner world
The medallion is the still point, the heart. The vines moving out from it are life given a center. Purple here is dusk, the hour when a garden goes quiet and the pattern is easiest to see. Order, peace, and a house that feels complete.
Why it mattered to weavers and the culture
A weaver shows skill when both ends of the rug match and the medallion sits true. Garden language is a kept poem, not a new invention each morning. Finishing a rare color on a full field is pride of the dye-pot as much as the loom.
Rare purple. Persian garden. Hand-knotted wool. Brand new.
Material
Wool
Hand-spun sheep’s wool is springy and warm. It holds dye inside the fibre, recovers after it is walked on, and wears slowly, over decades rather than years.
The foundation, the grid of threads the rug is woven on, is cotton, which keeps the rug flat and square.
Specifications
- Size
- 108 × 222 cm (3 ft 7 in × 7 ft 3 in)
- Area
- 2.4 m²
- Shape
- Rectangular
- Pile
- Wool
- Foundation
- Cotton
Foundation
The warp and weft: the grid of threads the pile is knotted onto. A cotton foundation keeps a rug flat and square; a wool one moves with the pile.
- Weave
- Hand-Knotted
Weave
Hand-knotted rugs have a pile made of individual knots tied by hand around the warp. Flatweaves such as kilims are woven with no pile, so they are thinner and often reversible.
- Age
- About 20 years
- Condition
- Excellent
- Made in
- Pakistan
- Design
- Persian Floral Medallion
- Colours
- Gold / Ochre, Blue / Navy
- Rug ID
- 2
