Runner Rugs – Hand-Knotted Persian Runners for Hallways

Runner Rugs, Hand-Knotted in Persia

Every runner rug here is a Persian original in wool, most of them village and tribal weavings: knotted pile runners, Baluch pieces, and a few Sumak kilims woven flat. The palettes run to reds, browns and beiges, the drawings to geometric borders and repeating medallions — and each runner is a single piece, so its length, drawing and colors exist once.

Long, narrow formats come off the same looms as the big carpets, but they serve the hardest-working floors of the house: the hallway, the corridor, the strip along a bed or a kitchen counter.

Which Width and Length for a Hallway

A runner should leave a strip of floor visible along each side — roughly 5 to 10 cm — so measure the corridor and subtract. The runners here are 50 to 120 cm wide, most of them 60 to 110 cm.

• 180–250 cm — an entrance, a short landing, the foot of a bed.
• 250–350 cm — the standard corridor of a flat or house.
• Over 350 cm — long hallways; the longest pieces here pass four metres, and one long runner always reads better than two short ones.

Wool Where the Traffic Is

Wool is the right fibre for the busiest line of the house: it springs back underfoot, hides dust between cleanings and resists stains naturally. Vacuum along the pile without a beater bar, turn the runner end-for-end a couple of times a year so both halves wear evenly, and blot spills at once with a dry white cloth.

Each listing shows the exact length and width. Every runner ships free, with import duties covered on deliveries outside the EU.