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Yellow & Gold

Yellow & Gold

Yellow & Gold Persian Rugs

The dye house reserved its most extravagant gesture for yellow. Everyday golds came honestly from pomegranate rind and weld, but for pieces meant to impress, weavers reached for saffron, the same threads worth more than their weight in silver, steeped to give silk a yellow that seems to carry its own light. Gold has a second source in Persian weaving too: the natural sheen of silk itself, which turns champagne and honey grounds luminous without a drop of dye. Every yellow and gold Persian rug on this page is hand-knotted and the only one of its kind in the world.

Gold is the great warm neutral of the classical workshops. Isfahan rugs set their finest drawing on champagne and pale gold grounds, fields that flatter every color placed upon them, which is much of why these rugs hang in collections. Persian Mahal rugs pour camel and honey across generous allover designs that decorators treat as sunlight in rug form. The palette scales beautifully: a 5x7 Persian rug brightens a study or bedroom, while at the grand end our 12x18 palace size rugs show what a golden field can do for a truly great room.

Warmth is gold's whole business, and its neighbors set the temperature: our peach rugs soften the palette toward morning light, while green rugs revisit gold's oldest partnership, the leaf and the sun that classical designers paired for centuries. Golds shift more than any color between daylight and lamplight, so if the exact warmth matters, our rug experts will compare pieces with you live on phone or chat at any hour. Free shipping and free returns in all 50 states and Canada let the light in your own home make the final call.

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