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One-of-a-kind rugs, 100% satisfaction guaranteed. Free shipping from the USA, delivered in just a few days.
One-of-a-kind rugs, 100% satisfaction guaranteed. Free shipping from the USA, delivered in just a few days.
Dimensions: 3'0" x 6'5" (91 cm x 196 cm).
Circa: 1870.
This antique circa 1870 Axminster rug is a handmade, one-of-a-kind floral carpet with an elegant English decorative sensibility. Its warm brown field is enlivened by a lush vertical bouquet of roses and scrolling foliage in ivory, blush, camel, and soft blue, creating a painterly all-over composition with refined period character. A distinctive accent piece for a hallway, entryway, or bedroom.
Muted warm tones of brown, ivory, camel, rose, taupe, olive, soft blue, and cream, with a brown field.
Axminster (also Axminster) rugs take their name from the English town of Axminster in Devon, where Thomas Whitty established a hand-knotted carpet manufactory in 1755, having studied examples of Turkish and Persian rugs. The Axminster workshop produced carpets for the grandest English country houses and for royal palaces, with designs by leading architects of the day including Robert Adam and Thomas Moore.
The term "Axminster" later became associated with a particular power-loom weaving technique — Axminster weave — but antique hand-knotted Axminster carpets are rare and highly valued as examples of eighteenth-century English decorative art at its finest.























































