Palette

Teal field with deep-navy medallion and ivory/champagne accents

Composition

Central medallion with garden-border framing — Tabriz pool-and-garden lineage

Construction

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

Pile

Heat-set polypropylene, 12mm

Best in

Rooms where the rug is the first decision, not the last

Most rugs are bought to disappear into a room. This one is bought to anchor it. Teal-and-navy is the palette designers reach for when the brief is "make the floor the answer to the room," and it earns the attention it asks for.

Heritage

The teal-and-navy pairing comes out of the Safavid-era Tabriz tradition of "pool and garden" carpets — compositions built around the formal Persian garden, where a central reflecting pool (the medallion) sits inside a quadripartite garden (the field) framed by paths and water channels (the borders). The dual-tone palette echoes water against deeper water; the ivory accents echo lily, marble, fountain spray. This 1200-reed mill translation preserves the structural logic without claiming antique provenance.

How It Feels

The teal reads cool and crisp in daylight, warmer and almost emerald under incandescent bulbs. The navy medallion gives the eye a place to rest in what would otherwise be a busy color story. In rooms where the existing palette is greige/oat/sand, this rug lifts the temperature; in rooms with stronger walls (deep green, oxblood, charcoal), it reads as a deliberate complement rather than a contrast. Distinctive in the right room. Loud in the wrong one.

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; rotate annually; professional clean every 2–3 years

Sizes

Stocked in the standard 1200-reed range — 3×6 entry through 10×13 statement size. Specialty 5×7.5 available for narrower rooms. Custom commissions (11×15, 12×15, 13×16, or runner-cut) take 8–14 weeks for this palette since teal is not a standing-stock color at most mills.

Designer Styling

Pair with aged brass (not polished), camel velvet, and a single matte-black iron accent — lamp, picture frame, fireplace surround. Avoid rose gold or copper: the warm-pink metals fight the cool teal. The rug carries the room; the rest of the palette should support, not compete. Works best with a heavy seating piece in a neutral solid (camel, charcoal, ivory) rather than a patterned upholstery.

Best For

Formal living rooms where the rug is the centerpiece. Statement dining rooms. Larger entryways where the first impression should be a piece chosen with intent. Designer-led projects where the brief is "give me something I haven't seen in every other Sacramento living room this year."

Skip if: the existing palette is committed to warm neutrals (greige, oat, beige, blush) and you want the rug to disappear into it — this one will not. Skip if the room already has a strong patterned upholstery or wallpaper. Skip if the architecture is coastal or beach-house: this is a city rug.

Sacramento Showroom

Teal is the single hardest palette to read from a photo — screens render it bluer or greener than it is depending on calibration. Walk in to 3423 Watt Avenue, Sacramento and stand on it under both daylight (north windows) and lamp light (showroom evening setup). Free 7-day in-home preview available for pieces over $1,500. Mon–Sun 10am–7pm.

Reading the Spec Sheet: Reed Count & Density

The Safavid pool-and-garden tradition this anchor descends from demanded tight weaves so the water, garden, and border zones could read as distinct registers rather than as one busy field. 1200 reeds is the threshold where that compositional discipline becomes visible at a mill price point — below it the medallion bleeds into the field and the architectural logic is lost.

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.