| Size in ft: | Width: 7'3" x Length: 11' |
| Size in Inch: | Width: 87" x Length: 132" |
| Size in meters: | Length: 3.35 m x Width: 2.21 m |
| Colors: | Aubergine, ivory, sage green, gold, olive, camel |
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| Woven: | 100% Hand-hooked | Handmade |
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| Design: | All-Over Acanthus Scroll | No medallion |
| Origin: | Made in India |
| Condition: | Very Good | Minor fraying along the outer edge (see picture no. 2 and 3) |
7'3" x 11' Hand-Hooked Rug | Aubergine and Gold All-Over Acanthus Scroll | Made in India
This is a hand-hooked wool rug on a cotton foundation, made in India, drawn from the European scrollwork tradition rather than the Oriental medallion tradition. The surface sits low and flat, closer to a fine tapestry than to a plush pile, which is exactly why the leaf drawing stays as crisp as it does at 60 to 80 knots per square inch. At 7'3" x 11" it covers a full seating group without the visual weight of a heavy pile rug. It comes with a certificate of authenticity.
Please Note About the Edges:
Two of the photographs show the outer edge up close. Along the outermost gold guard band the weave terminates in a cut finish, and in places short thread ends stand out unevenly with 1 or 2 longer loops hanging free. At one corner the last band has thinned slightly where those threads pulled loose, and on the reverse the cotton binding tape has lifted a little from the rug. None of this is wear to the body of the rug: the field, the pattern and the pile are complete and intact right up to the border, and there are no holes, no pile loss and no fading. It is edge finish, it is stable, and it can be trimmed and rebound at any time.
Design and Motifs
There is no medallion here and no center of gravity at all, which is deliberate. The field carries a continuous acanthus scroll, big curling leaves that fold back on themselves, thrown out along stems that wander in every direction and never settle into an obvious repeat. Small 5 petal blossoms and acorn-like buds fill the spaces between them. Because the pattern has no orientation, the rug works turned any way you like and looks correct from every seat in the room. The border is where the design shifts register completely, dropping the leaves for a tight running scroll of interlocked ivory volutes with small aubergine diamonds between them, framed inside plain gold bands, and finished at each corner with a small square medallion. That contrast, loose organic field against a strict geometric frame, is what gives the rug its structure.
The Color
The field is a deep aubergine, a purple-brown that shifts toward plum in daylight and toward near-black under lamps, and it does the heavy lifting: nothing else in the palette is remotely as dark. Everything drawn on top of it sits in the warm neutral range, ivory and cream for the brightest leaves, a soft sage green and a heavier olive for the shaded ones, gold and ochre for the stems, and camel filling in between. The effect is that the leaves appear to float rather than sit flat, because the two greens create a shadow layer under the ivory. The border reverses the balance, going mostly gold and ivory with only small aubergine accents, which frames the dark field and keeps the rug from reading heavy across 11 feet.
Hand-Hooked Weaving in India
Hand-hooking is a different craft from knotting. The weaver works from the front of a stretched cotton ground, pushing wool through with a hand hook loop by loop, following a drawn cartoon. It builds a denser, lower, more painterly surface than knotting does, and it handles curved European drawing like this acanthus scroll better than a knotted structure would at the same price. India has been the center of this work for decades and remains where most of the world's good hand-hooked production comes from, with the workshops there holding a consistency that machine tufting cannot approach. If you are weighing this against a knotted piece, our article on the difference between Oriental rug categories is a useful place to start.
