A warm gold field with no medallion at all — instead an all-over afshan pattern of palmettes, curled boteh, serrated leaves and small flowering sprays, linked by fine green vine and repeating across the whole ground. The palette stays deliberately close: chestnut, tan, moss green, cream and a soft blue-grey, all sitting within a step or two of the gold behind them. A chestnut-brown main border of palmettes and rosettes closes it in, with narrow sawtooth guard bands and cream fringe at both ends.
Hand-knotted in silk at 50/50 quality — 50 knots to the inch in each direction, 2,500 to the square inch, and something in the region of 5.8 million knots in this rug. That is about as fine as hand-knotting goes, and it shows in the thin green vine, which stays a continuous line at a width of two or three knots. At 94×159cm this suits a bedside, a study or a small seating area. Being tonal, it photographs flatter than it looks in the room — in person the sheen separates the browns from the gold as you move, which a photograph cannot show.
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Type: Hand-knotted pile rug
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Material: 100% silk
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Quality: 50/50 (approx. 2,500 knots per square inch)
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Design: Afshan all-over floral
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Size: 94×159cm (3'1"×5'3") — Small
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Colour: Gold and brown, with moss green and cream
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SKU: ZINS62355
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One-of-a-kind: Yes