Hand-Knotted Kazak Wool Rug, Ivory Field, Geometric Medallions
Hand-Knotted Kazak Wool Rug, Ivory Field, Geometric Medallions
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- 208 x 150 cm (6 ft 10 in x 4 ft 11 in), 3.1 sqm
- Wool pile on wool foundation, hand-knotted
- Woven in Pakistan
- Free worldwide shipping with tracking
- 30-day returns
- Lifetime warranty*
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Hand-knotted Kazak rug in the Caucasian geometric tradition. Size 208 × 150 cm. Wool pile on a wool foundation, symmetrical Turkish (Ghiordes) knots, vegetable dyes, natural warp fringes. Brand new.
What the wool is
Wool on wool means the surface and the structure are both sheep’s wool. Wool is warm, springy, and strong. Vegetable dye goes into the fiber, so the red stays warm and the ivory stays clean. Ghiordes knots pack the yarn tight, which is why the drawing stays sharp and the rug lasts through years of walking. The fringes are the warp itself.
What the design is in the real world
The field is ivory, like open ground. On it stand large hooked medallions in red, navy, and sage. Each medallion is a small fortress: a star or rosette at the heart, hooks around the edge. A hook is a wall. A star is a hearth. The red border is the village wall, set with diamonds, crosses, and latch-hooks.
This is how mountain weavers draw a yard: a clear center, then ranks of signs you can read from the door. Protection, flock, family, and a guarded house. A rug this size belongs in a living room, under a table, or as the main carpet in a smaller room.
What the design is in the inner world
Ivory is peace and open ground. The medallions are guarded hearts. Repeated hooks say harm stops here. Fertility in this language is not a painted flower. It is a seed locked inside a diamond, a hearth that keeps lighting. Tribal heritage is the decision to keep the same signs so a child can still read the floor.
A geometric garden is the same prayer as a floral one, in a different grammar: order you can stand on.
Why it mattered to weavers and the culture
Kazak drawing comes from nomadic and village looms in the mountain tradition: durability first, then meaning. Pride is a medallion that sits true and a border that turns at the corners. Anyone can fill a field. Closing the wall at all four corners means the world of the rug is whole.
These patterns were not invented each morning. They were kept: protection, fertility, belonging: so a family could carry home in wool.
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Description
What the wool is
Wool on wool means the surface and the structure are both sheep’s wool. Wool is warm, springy, and strong. Vegetable dye goes into the fiber, so the red stays warm and the ivory stays clean. Ghiordes knots pack the yarn tight, which is why the drawing stays sharp and the rug lasts through years of walking. The fringes are the warp itself.
What the design is in the real world
The field is ivory, like open ground. On it stand large hooked medallions in red, navy, and sage. Each medallion is a small fortress: a star or rosette at the heart, hooks around the edge. A hook is a wall. A star is a hearth. The red border is the village wall, set with diamonds, crosses, and latch-hooks.
This is how mountain weavers draw a yard: a clear center, then ranks of signs you can read from the door. Protection, flock, family, and a guarded house. A rug this size belongs in a living room, under a table, or as the main carpet in a smaller room.
What the design is in the inner world
Ivory is peace and open ground. The medallions are guarded hearts. Repeated hooks say harm stops here. Fertility in this language is not a painted flower. It is a seed locked inside a diamond, a hearth that keeps lighting. Tribal heritage is the decision to keep the same signs so a child can still read the floor.
A geometric garden is the same prayer as a floral one, in a different grammar: order you can stand on.
Why it mattered to weavers and the culture
Kazak drawing comes from nomadic and village looms in the mountain tradition: durability first, then meaning. Pride is a medallion that sits true and a border that turns at the corners. Anyone can fill a field. Closing the wall at all four corners means the world of the rug is whole.
These patterns were not invented each morning. They were kept: protection, fertility, belonging: so a family could carry home in 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 wool too, so the whole rug moves and ages as one.
Specifications
- Size
- 150 × 208 cm (4 ft 11 in × 6 ft 10 in)
- Area
- 3.1 m²
- Shape
- Rectangular
- Pile
- Wool
- Foundation
- Wool
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.
- Condition
- Excellent
- Made in
- Pakistan
- Design
- Kazak Ivory Geometric Medallions
- Colours
- Ivory / Cream, Red / Rust
- Rug ID
- 11
