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This is a village rug from Beghardeh, a small weaving settlement in western Iran, measuring 209 x 126 cm (6'10" x 4'2"). Beghardeh pieces are known for an honest, everyday character — simple patterns knotted for local use rather than export — but this one carries a medallion drawn with a scale and confidence unusual for a design normally content to stay small and scattered.
A warm brick-red field carries the eye first, filled densely with small floral motifs that never quite settle into stillness. Out of this field rises a large stepped hexagonal medallion, its core a smaller octagon, set against navy-black ground that also fills the corner spandrels. Small hooked pink shapes reach outward from the medallion's points, giving it something close to an anchor's silhouette. An ivory border of repeating stepped triangles and vine work frames the whole, held between an outer indigo band and narrow red guard stripes.
The pile is handspun wool on a cotton warp, hand-knotted at 321,000 to 380,000 knots per square metre — a solid village density, high enough to keep the stepped medallion's edges clean even though it was drawn freehand rather than from a workshop plan. Handspun yarn varies slightly in thickness along its length, and that irregularity is what gives the surface its faint rib and matte, quiet look rather than a sheen. At 10 mm the pile stays shallow enough for the drawing to hold its shape underfoot.
A rug this size suits a bedroom floor or a smaller seating corner in a living room, somewhere it can be taken in whole rather than disappearing beneath a large table. Against pale floorboards the brick red and its touches of pink and teal warm the room without shouting; against darker furniture the navy corners hold their own. The wool is dense and firm underfoot, made for daily use rather than careful preservation, and the medallion keeps drawing the eye back as the light in the room moves through the day.
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At 209 × 126 cm (2.63 m²) this is a medium rug. It works in front of a sofa, in front of a bed or in a study. It is too small for a dining table — there you want about 80 cm of clearance so a chair does not tip over the edge when pushed back.
Yes, knotted by hand — knot by knot on a loom, not machine-made. The density is 321,000 to 380,000 knots per square metre; across 2.63 m² that is roughly 0.8 to 1.0 million individual knots, every one of them tied by hand.
Hand-spun wool still carries its own lanolin, which keeps liquid sitting on the surface for a moment: blot quickly, with clear water and a light cloth, working inwards and without rubbing. Otherwise regular vacuuming along the pile is enough. Turn the rug once or twice a year so light and footfall reach it evenly.
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Certificate included verifying origin, materials, and craftsmanship.
Ref: 825719