Oversize Contemporary Oushak Carpet

A wool pile of symmetric knots on a cotton foundation. In the spirit of early 20^th century Oushaks, this city carpet shows upright, inverted and lazy palmettes in various color combinations, on the minutely striated abrashed buff field. The palmettes move freely and go in and out of focus, depending on their detail tones. Beige, slate and chocolate are among the detail tones. The abrashed celadon border turns neatly at the corners, and employs in and out alternating palmettes and rough ecru brackets. Although recent, this carpet faithfully carries on the Oushak tradition of workshop pieces made more than a century earlier.