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Arts & Crafts
Hand Knotted
Primary color is Navy. Colors in this rug include: Mint, Ivory, Brown, Blue, Multi .
Wool
0.5
Oushak
India
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A midnight navy ground gives this hand knotted Arts & Crafts Oushak wool area rug a bold and sophisticated presence, allowing the oversized botanical palmettes, scrolling acanthus, and layered leaf forms to stand out with depth and clarity. Gold, light blue, brown, and ivory details move across the field, with the gold tones carrying much of the visual strength as they outline major motifs and warm the larger leaf and palmette forms. The contrast between those golden accents and the cool navy and light blue areas creates a balanced composition that feels both traditional and transitional. Brown adds an earthy note to the palette, grounding the cooler shades and giving the mid-field pattern a natural, organic quality connected to Arts & Crafts design. An ivory border with a small floral and foliate repeat, touched with light green and brown, completes the frame. Dense hand knotted wool construction gives the pile strong pattern definition, durable texture, and consistent navy saturation from edge to edge, making it suitable as a living room rug, dining room rug, or refined home décor accent.
Story Behind the Art: Oushak rugs, rooted in the west-central Anatolian town of Oushak in Turkey, are admired for their refined texture, open-scale design language, and quietly elegant style. Their decorative vocabulary comes from a historic family of Ushak designs, recognizable through generous geometric compositions, central medallion drawings, smaller all-over medallions, and scattered sprays of vine scrolls and palmettes. Woven from lustrous wool and often colored in soft, muted earth tones, these oriental area rugs are known for remarkable versatility in traditional, transitional, and modern interiors. This beauty is connected to the broader heritage of hand-knotted rugs, which began in the nomadic cultures of Persia and Central Asia thousands of years ago, when a knotted textile provided warmth, comfort, status, and identity. Each hand knotted rug is built knot by knot around individual warp threads, using an ancient technique still echoed by Jaipur weavers today and rooted in the same careful motion practiced in a 16th-century Safavid atelier. In a world of mass production, such rugs continue to require months or years of patient artisan craftsmanship. Today, a new generation appreciates them not only as floor coverings, but as works of art, including abstract, minimalist, and conceptual patterns woven by skilled makers in Iran, Afghanistan, India, and Nepal. As elegant interior accents, they also carry the texture, patience, and handmade character that make wool rugs meaningful in refined room settings.














