| Size in ft: | Width: 10'6" x Length: 17'1" |
| Size in Inch: | Width: 126" x Length: 205" |
| Size in meters: | Length: 5.21 x Width: 3.20 m |
| Colors: | Red, Blue, Green, Ivory, Salmon Pink |
| Shape: | Rectangular |
| Woven: | 100% Hand-knotted | Handmade |
| Foundation: | Cotton |
| Pile: | |
| Age: | 1960's | Vintage estate piece |
| Design: | Mahal | All Over Floral | Palmette and Vine |
| Origin: | Persian Mahal | Made in Persia |
| Condition: | Excellent | Full even pile |
10'6" x 17'1" Persian Mahal Rug | All Over Floral Palmette Design | 1960s Estate Piece
This is a genuine estate piece from the 1960s, woven in the Mahal villages and kept in the kind of condition that is unusual for a floor rug of this scale. At 10'6" x 17'1" it covers a true banquet or great room footprint, and it belongs in the small group of oversize Persian rugs that were made wide enough to seat a full table with chairs pulled back. The pile is hand-knotted wool on a cotton foundation, still thick and even edge to edge, with the original ivory fringe and tight selvages intact. Every rug we sell ships with a certificate of authenticity that records the origin, materials and hand-knotted construction.
Please Note About the Photographs:
The full overhead photograph reads darker and more aubergine than the rug actually is. The floor shots taken under warehouse lighting show the true madder red. Any soft lines or shadows you see across the surface are fold marks from pallet storage, not wear, fade or damage. They relax once the rug is laid flat, and every rug is professionally steamed and pressed before it ships.
Design and Motifs
There is no central medallion here. The field carries a large-scale all over design built from arched vine stems, broad serrated leaves and staggered rows of palmettes and lozenge rosettes, repeated on a mirrored vertical axis so the drawing reads the same from either end of the room. Ivory cartouche-shaped flowerheads with indigo centers anchor the repeat and give the eye a resting point every few feet. The main border is a wide navy band of linked ivory and rose palmettes separated by hooked vine brackets, framed on both sides by a pale sea green guard stripe of small four petal blossoms and then by an outer indigo band. The corners are resolved cleanly, which on a village piece of this width is a sign the weavers worked from a proper cartoon rather than improvising to the edge.
Deep Madder Red With Indigo, Sea Green and Salmon
The ground is a deep madder red that shifts between brick and burgundy as the light moves across the pile, a natural abrash that is typical of good village dye lots and one of the reasons these rugs sit so comfortably in a lived-in room. Against it the drawing is picked out in dark indigo and a lighter cornflower blue, with soft sea green and teal running through the leaves and the inner guard stripe. Ivory and cream carry the border palmettes and the field rosettes, and there is a generous amount of salmon pink and faded rose in the vinework, warmed further by small flashes of rust orange and a pale olive brown. The reverse, shown in the fold photographs, reads cooler and bluer than the face, which is normal and confirms the clarity of the original dyes.
Mahal Weaving and Village Quality
Mahal is the weaving district around Arak in west central Persia, the same group of villages that produced the Sultanabad rugs shipped to Europe and America from the late 19th century onward. The looms there were set wide and the wool is long staple and lanolin rich, which is exactly why Mahal pieces survive decades of real household traffic and why Persian Mahal rugs are still the first choice of decorators furnishing a large formal room. This is a moderate knot count on a heavy foundation, a construction chosen for durability rather than for miniature detail, and the result is a thick, resilient handle you can feel in the rolled edge photograph. If you want to understand how a 1960s piece like this is placed by weave, wool and dye, our guide on how to date an Oriental rug walks through the same checks we ran on it.
