10'1" x 13'11" Persian Rug | All Over Paisley Boteh Design | Ivory Field, Excellent Condition

Measuring 10'1" x 13'11", this is a quiet, disciplined room-size piece built on one idea repeated with absolute consistency: the boteh, or paisley. There is no medallion and no central event anywhere in the field, which means the rug reads the same from every chair in the room and tolerates furniture far better than a medallion design of the same footprint. The pile is 3/8" wool on a cotton foundation, still full and even across all 140 square feet, and the ends and sides are clean with no repair work. Buyers shopping 10x14 Persian rugs for a formal living room or a long dining room will recognise how rare a genuinely neutral large rug in this condition is. It ships with our certificate of authenticity confirming it as a hand-knotted Persian rug.

Design and Motifs

The field is a strict all over paisley repeat, with each boteh leaning the same direction and set in offset rows so the eye travels diagonally rather than in rigid columns. Every paisley is drawn three times over: a serrated outer leaf edge, an inner cartouche filled with a row of small dotted leaflets, and a curled tip that hooks back on itself. Between the rows sit tiny rust rosettes and 3 petal blue sprigs that fill the ground without crowding it. The border system runs 4 bands deep. The widest outer band carries large paisleys alternating in scale, the two inner bands repeat the same boteh at a quarter size in upright files, and narrow guard stripes of linked rosettes and vine separate each one, so the border is effectively a smaller edition of the field. The weaver kept the repeat honest all the way into the 4 corners, where the border paisleys turn rather than break, which is the detail that separates a drawn design from a copied one.

A Study in Ivory, Pearl Grey and Blue

The ground is ivory moving into pearl light grey, and in raking light it shifts gently between oatmeal and warm cream across the width, the natural tonal movement of hand-spun wool rather than any flaw. Against it the paisleys are worked in slate blue and a deeper tarpaulin grey blue, outlined in near-charcoal navy so each motif holds its shape at a distance. Inside the boteh the palette warms up: rust and terracotta leaflets, a thread of soft gold, and cream highlights that lift the centre of each form. Pale sky blue appears in the small filler sprigs and in the narrow border bands, and a muted sage to olive green runs through the guard stripes and the vine work, which is what keeps the whole thing from reading cold. The overall effect at standing height is a pale, silvery neutral, so the rug sits comfortably with grey upholstery, walnut and oak floors, brass, and white or greige walls, while the rust accents give it enough warmth to avoid looking washed out.

Persian Origin and Weaving Quality

The boteh is the oldest surviving motif in Persian weaving, carried from woven shawl cloth onto the loom and repeated for generations because a single well drawn paisley can furnish an entire field. This rug is recorded simply as Persian, with no workshop city on the record, and we do not attribute one we cannot prove. What the weave itself shows is workshop discipline rather than village improvisation: a cotton foundation under even tension, no waist or draw anywhere along the 13'11" length, straight selvages, and a knot count fine enough to hold the small inner leaflets of a 2 inch paisley without blurring them. The 3/8" wool pile has been clipped low and level, which is why the drawing stays this crisp, and the wool still has a dry lustre under the hand. Taken together with the clean ends and the unworn pile, this is a Persian floor piece with its full working life still ahead of it.