9x12 Hand Knotted Wool Mocha Ivory Oushak Arts & Crafts Area Rug

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ORH21065

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Regular price $ 5,400.00 $ 1,800.00 Sale

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A warm mocha ground runs through this hand knotted Arts & Crafts Oushak wool rug, and it is the particular quality of that brown that gives the palette its richness and sets up the large-scale botanical motifs to maximum effect. Ivory, chocolate, sage green, light blue, and gold are worked through the palmettes, leaf forms, and scrolling vines that fill the field, with the ivory forms carrying the most visual contrast against the ground and the blue and mint details adding a cooler tone. The scale of the individual motifs is generous even by Oushak standards, with large leaf and palmette forms occupying significant portions of the field in an open layout. The ivory border holds a restrained floral repeat in blue and green that frames the composition cleanly, its lightness providing a natural boundary for the earthier tones of the field. Hand knotted in wool, the construction delivers a pile density and color depth that is consistent across the entire surface, with the mocha ground in particular showing the kind of tonal evenness that only comes from quality yarn and skilled knotting.
  • Exact Size: 9x12
  • Weave: Hand Knotted Rug
  • Yarn: Wool
  • Color: Mocha, Ivory, Chocolate, Blue, Mint, Gold, Multi
  • Origin: India
  • Pile Height: 0.5 inch
  • Condition: New
  • Condition Description: New With Tags
  • Rug#: ORH21065

Hand-knotted rugs standStory Behind the Art: Oushak Rugs, originating in the west-central Anatolian town of Oushak in Turkey, are renowned for their exceptional texture, expansive design and elegant style. These rugs are made using a family of designs that originate in Ushak, Turkey. They’re recognizable for their large-scale designs and are typically based on geometric motifs with central medallion drawings, smaller all-over medallions or scattered sprays of vine scroll and palmettes. Made from lustrous wool, they favor muted earth tones and are extremely versatile. 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.



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