Vintage Irish Arts & Crafts Floral Forest Green Hand-Knotted Wool Runner By C.F.A. Voysey (Fragment) BB8401 4'6" × 12'7" $14,000

This antique Irish Arts and Crafts runner, woven in Donegal and attributed to C.F.A. Voysey, distills the movement’s devotion to craft, nature, and clarity into a refined fragment. Hand-knotted in wool, it belongs to the celebrated Donegal weaving tradition, where decorative restraint and expressive pattern often met.

Across the teal green field, stylized tree forms rise in a staggered repeat, their blue-gray canopies outlined with dark contouring and touched with small magenta blossoms. Slim trunks and paired floral sprigs below each tree keep the composition open and measured, creating an airy architectural rhythm rather than a crowded floral surface.

The palette of forest and teal greens, slate blue, and raspberry accents gives the runner a cool, tailored presence. Its botanical and figural motifs read with the calm precision associated with Arts and Crafts design, making it especially suited to a corridor, narrow gallery, or layered interior that calls for quiet pattern and historical character. As a surviving fragment, it retains the charm and discipline of the original design.

Curated by Doris Leslie Blau, this vintage rug carries the distinct character and artisanal soul that the gallery has championed for decades. With an unrivaled selection spanning eras, origins, and price points, Doris Leslie Blau continues to make fine carpet art accessible to designers and collectors worldwide.