Oushak-inspired designs have translated naturally into the Arts & Crafts aesthetic, and this hand knotted wool rug from India draws on both traditions to produce an open, unhurried composition on a warm ivory ground. Large-scale scrolling vines and stylised floral forms in rust, sage, gray and gold move across the field with the ivory ground remaining visible throughout, giving the design its characteristic spaciousness. A charcoal floral element anchors the centre, and the rust main border carries the same bold botanical scrollwork outward, framed by narrow ivory guard stripes on either side. Woven in 100% wool on a cotton foundation with a medium pile, the muted earthy palette of rust, sage and charcoal gives this rug a warmth that sits comfortably across a range of interior settings.
- Exact Size: 8x10
- Weave: Hand Knotted Rug
- Yarn: 100% Wool
- Color: Beige, Rust, Sage, Gray, Gold, Charcoal, Multi
- Origin: India
- Pile Height: 0.5 inch
- Condition: New
- Condition Description: New With Tags
- Rug#: ORH21066
Hand-knotted rugs stand as one of the most enduring acts of human making, and were born in the nomadic communities of Persia and Central Asia thousands of years ago when a single knotted textile could mean the difference between warmth and cold, status and anonymity. each knot tied by hand around individual warp threads, a technique so ancient and unchanged that a weaver in a Jaipur workshop today uses the same fundamental motion as one in a 16th-century Safavid atelier. in an age of mass production, a single hand-knotted rug still demands months, sometimes years, of uninterrupted human attention. Today, a new generation is rediscovering hand-knotted rugs not as relics but as pieces if art, commissioning abstract, minimalist, and even conceptual patterns from weavers in Iran, Afghanistan, India, and Nepal.