Multicolor Oushak Medallion Hand-Knotted Wool Rug

The medallion came first and the rug was built around it: a hand-knotted wool rug woven in Uşak in 2023, 204 × 349 cm (6'8" × 11'5"), copying an old Uşak drawing of the kind held in museum collections.

01Where the Medallion comes from

Brick, mustard, blue and navy, all of it in wool, with plant dyes and synthetic dyes both used to get there. A central medallion anchors the field and the corner pieces answer it — the classical Anatolian arrangement, where the corners are quarters of the same medallion cut by the border.

02The tone of the ground

Brick red carries the ground. Mustard picks out the interior drawing and reads almost gold where daylight crosses it, then settles back to ochre in a lamplit room. Blue and navy are held for the outlines and the border, so the pattern keeps its edges from a standing height instead of dissolving into warm color. It was knotted in Uşak in 2023, in wool throughout, from a drawing taken line for line off a documented historical example rather than adapted from one.

03From ground to pile

The yarn was colored with a mix: madder and other plant dyes for some of it, synthetic dyes for the rest, and rather than describe the whole rug as plant-dyed, the house names both. Plant-dyed yarn moves in tone from batch to batch, so expect the field to shift a little in bands across its width — that is abrash, and on a rug this size it is the difference between a weaving and a print.

04Coming off the loom

Skilled hands only for washing. Hand-knotted in Uşak, western Anatolia, in 2023. Wool throughout — surface and drawing both. The design is a line-for-line copy of a historical Uşak pattern of museum type. Dyed with a combination of plant dyes, madder among them, and synthetic dyes. Central medallion with matching corner quarters, in brick, mustard, blue and navy. Expect abrash — tonal banding across the field where dye lots changed. 204 × 349 cm (6'8" × 11'5"), large enough to carry a full seating group. Washing by an experienced hand only. Put it in a room with old wood and it argues its case; put it in a white one and the medallion does all the talking.