Antique Needlepoint Wool Rug, Figural & Floral, Navy & Red

An especially charming antique-style needlepoint carpet — wool cross-stitched on heavy canvas backing in the Aubusson-Portuguese tradition that has run continuously from the 18th century through today. The deep navy field is animated by a procession of small naturalistic vignettes: animals, butterflies, songbirds, and scattered floral sprays in mustard, brick red, ivory, and soft greens. A wide, scrolling red-ground border framed by floral cartouches and ivory guard stripes finishes the composition, with full short fringe at both ends.

Needlepoint carpets like this one were prized in 19th- and early 20th-century English country houses and Continental drawing rooms — soft underfoot, perfectly suited to traditional rooms, and far more graphically punchy than a flatweave kilim or a worn knotted carpet. The figural motifs give the eye somewhere to land in a way that purely floral or geometric weavings do not.

A piece like this works beautifully in a study or library, as a bedside or hearthside scatter, or — laid in a small entry hall or breakfast room — as a discrete moment of personality.

Dimensions: 4'0.5" × 6'3.5" (48.5" W × 75.5" L)

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