Traditional & Oriental Rugs – Persian Carpets

Discover the Timeless Beauty of Oriental Rugs

At YourCarpet.com, an oriental rug means the real thing: a hand-knotted Persian carpet in the tradition of the great workshop cities — Tabriz, Kashan, Isfahan, Nain. These are the traditional area rugs woven knot by knot from a drawn design plan, which is why their drawing is so precise and their range of colours and patterns so wide. Whether you're after an oriental rug for the living room or a traditional rug to anchor the dining table, this is the collection to start from.

The design language you see here matured in Persia's golden age of weaving, under the Safavid dynasty (1501–1732), and it has never really left: a centre medallion on a patterned field, corner pieces echoing it, and major and minor borders that hold the whole composition the way a frame holds a painting — the look most people have in mind when they picture an oriental Persian rug.

Why Choose Oriental Rugs?

Oriental rugs suit those who want a floor with substance and a design that will not date. Here's what our oriental carpets and traditional rugs bring:

• Timeless Appeal: The patterns of a traditional Persian rug have been woven, refined and handed down for centuries — a design that has outlived that much fashion is not going out of style now.
• Versatility: The contrast works both ways — an oriental area rug warms a spare modern room and completes a traditional one, whether in the living room, in the bedroom or as a dining-room rug.
• Durability: Knotted from high-quality wool, often with silk, our oriental rugs are built for decades of daily use — wool resists stains, drinks up dye and keeps its colours vivid for years.
• Comfort: An oriental wool rug is soft and warm underfoot and naturally insulating — our traditional pieces make a room noticeably cosier in winter.

Explore Our Oriental Rug Collection

Our collection of hand-knotted oriental rugs covers the main design families of the oriental tradition:

• Persian Medallion Rugs: The heart of the tradition — a central medallion, traditionally read as a lotus or rosette, echoed by corner pieces and framed by formal borders. An oriental medallion rug naturally centres a room, so let the furniture answer to it.
• All-Over and Herati Designs: Fields patterned edge to edge — blossoms joined by a network of vines, or the small repeating diamond-and-leaf motif known as Herati — with no single centre, which makes them easy to place anywhere in the room.
• Traditional Area Rugs: Formal, strong-bordered pieces that work especially well as a rug under the dining table, where the border stays in view while the field carries the furniture.
• Neutral Oriental Rugs: The same repertoire in softened, muted palettes that sit quietly beside contemporary furniture.

Find the Perfect Oriental Rug for Your Home

Whether you're searching for an oriental rug with a commanding medallion or a traditional area rug in quieter colours, YourCarpet.com has you covered — in sizes from small accent rugs to large traditional rugs over three metres long, all hand-knotted but for an occasional flat-woven kilim.

Explore our collection today and find the oriental rug your room has been waiting for. Because our traditional rugs are made by hand, no two are alike — when a rug finds its home, there is no second copy.