Palette

Deep indigo navy with ivory, ochre, and rust floral motifs

Composition

All-over Persian floral (no central medallion) — garden-at-dusk tradition

Construction

Machine-woven 1200 reeds (~1.5M points/m²)

Pile

Heat-set polypropylene, 12mm

Best in

Libraries, studies, dining rooms, anywhere with walnut or oak furniture

Navy is the palette that does not need to announce itself. This is the rug to choose when the room already has good furniture and you want the floor to hold its own without competing.

Heritage

Persian weavers grew indigo for a thousand years before the synthetic blues arrived in the 19th century — the dye plants ran in long rows behind Kashan workshops, and the "garden-at-dusk" compositional tradition (all-over flora, no medallion to draw the eye to the center) belongs to that indigo-rich corner of the canon. This 1200-reed translation keeps the all-over rhythm intact: roses, palmettes, vining stems, ivory and ochre highlights laid against the deep navy field.

How It Feels

Under a single warm lamp the navy reads almost black; under midday daylight the indigo opens up and the ivory floral work becomes legible from across the room. The all-over composition (rather than a central medallion) means furniture can be placed anywhere on the rug without breaking a focal point — useful for layouts where the seating arrangement is not symmetrical. Quiet in the morning, deeper at night.

Specs

• Pile height: 12mm (½")
• Density: ~1.5 million points per square meter
• Backing: woven jute
• Origin: Turkey (1200-reed mill production)
• Care: regular vacuum without beater bar; spot-clean with mild detergent; professional clean every 2–3 years

Sizes

Stocked in 3×6, 4×6, 5×7.5 (specialty), 5×8, 8×10, 8×11, and 10×13. Larger pieces (11×15, 12×15, 13×16) available on commission. Showroom often stocks one or two oversize pieces from this palette — call ahead if you need to walk on it before committing.

Designer Styling

Pair with walnut furniture, antique brass library lamps, cordovan leather seating, and stacked books. The navy field absorbs the warmth of brass and leather without flattening them — this is the rug under a Chesterfield, under a partner's desk, under a dining table with a heavy walnut top. Avoid chrome or polished nickel: this rug wants warm metals, not cold ones.

Best For

Libraries and studies with walnut shelving. Dining rooms with traditional wood furniture. Family rooms where the floor needs to absorb everyday wear — paw prints, foot traffic, stray crumbs — and still look composed at the end of the day. Transitional spaces where the wall color is warm and the lighting is mostly lamps.

Skip if: the room is small and dim — navy can pull the ceiling down further. Skip if the walls are already a strong blue or blue-gray; the rug will fight them rather than support them. Skip if the dominant lighting is cool-white LED overhead with no lamp light to warm it.

Sacramento Showroom

Navy palettes are easier to judge in person than in photos — the indigo shifts noticeably with the room's light. If you're choosing between this and a burgundy or a dark gray, the showroom at 3423 Watt Avenue, Sacramento has all three in stock. Walk-ins Mon–Sun 10am–7pm; appointments recommended if you're bringing fabric swatches.

Reading the Spec Sheet: Reed Count & Density

The Kashan indigo workshops that established this all-over floral grammar — no central medallion, the whole field reading as a garden at dusk — wove at hand-knotted densities considerably higher than any mill loom produces. The 1200-reed Turkish translation here is the closest faithful render at a working-luxury price point. At lower reed counts the foliage detail dissolves and the floral becomes generic flora.

شانه (shaneh, "reed count") measures yarn points across the loom's width — 1200 shaneh means 1200 vertical warp threads per meter, the finer end of mill-loom production. تراکم (tarakom, "density") measures how tightly the rows pack along the length. Multiplied together they give total points per square meter; for this 1200-reed Turkish weave that lands in the 1.5–3 million points/m² range depending on the mill's counting convention. Higher reed counts hold finer pattern detail; higher density makes a heavier, more durable rug.

One caveat worth knowing: the same shaneh/tarakom numbers aren't always directly comparable across countries, mills, or fiber types. A 1200-reed Turkish power-loom rug is a different object from a 1200-shaneh hand-knotted Iranian piece, even if the spec line reads the same.

Read the full guide → Reed Count and Density Explained: شانه and تراکم, 500 to 1700 — the complete comparison across all six mill tiers, what each level feels like underfoot, and how to read a spec sheet without being misled.