Beige Oushak Hand-Knotted Wool Rug, Harem Series

Beige Oushak Hand-Knotted Wool Rug, Harem Series — a beige field left almost plain, closed by a dark brown border carrying fine floral compositions, made in Türkiye from Erzurum wool, 169 × 236 cm (5'7" × 7'9"). There is one of it. The whole design is the contrast between those two zones.

01The origin of the pattern

Beige in the middle, dark brown at the edge, and the flowers concentrated where the brown is, so the piece reads like a framed picture from the doorway and like a plain floor from the sofa. Color transitions inside the border are soft rather than stepped, which keeps the drawing fine at close range. The Oushak inheritance is in the motif shapes.

02From ground to pile

The restraint in the middle is not, and that is the modern part of it. Its yarn is Erzurum wool, spun before the fleece has ever been scoured, so the natural grease is still in the fiber and the brightness with it. There is no silk in this one; the pile is wool alone, and the surface is correspondingly matt.

03Coming off the loom

It is knotted in the Anatolian double technique, where each tie is made twice, so the weaving takes twice as long and the pile sits twice as firm. Çınar Halı, which weaves for the series, is the maker. Wool takes vacuuming without complaint, and a professional washer should do the rest. Hand-knotted at Çınar Halı in Türkiye, Harem series. Unscoured Erzurum fleece, bright and soft, spun before the grease came out of it. Wool pile with no silk in it; the surface stays matt. Near-plain beige field inside a dark brown border of fine flowers. Anatolian double knot, which doubles the weaving time. 169 × 236 cm (5'7" × 7'9") — a seating group, or a bedroom with the bed on it. Regular vacuuming; professional washing for a deep clean. One rug, and only the one. Plain middles are what make patterned edges legible, and this one will still be readable when the furniture standing on it has changed twice.