10'1" x 13'2" Persian Kashan Rug | Sage Green All Over Floral Field | Excellent Condition

Most Kashans arrive on a red or an ivory ground, which is exactly why this one stops people. The field is a soft, dusty sage green, cool and slightly silvery under daylight, and the classic Kashan floral vocabulary is drawn across it in navy, ivory and small flashes of rust. It is a big, calm, formal piece that reads as a solid tonal green from across a room and only reveals how much drawing is packed into it once you are standing on it. At 10'1" x 13'2" it belongs in the 10x13 Persian rugs range, the size that fully anchors a large seating group or a long dining table with all chairs pulled out. This is a genuine hand-knotted Persian Kashan rug in excellent condition, with an even pile, straight sides and clean original ends, and it ships with a certificate of authenticity.

Design and Motifs

The center holds a small 8 petal rosette in ivory and navy, no larger than a dinner plate relative to the field, set inside a faint tonal halo rather than a heavy lobed medallion. From there the design runs all over: curving vine scroll carrying Shah Abbasi palmettes, split leaves, half palmettes and tiny 6 petal blossoms, each one outlined in navy so the drawing stays legible against the green. The layout is mirrored on both axes, so the same palmette cluster that sits above the rosette repeats below it and the 4 corners of the field echo each other exactly. The main border is worked on a paler green ground with alternating navy palmettes and rosettes linked by a continuous vine, and it is framed on both sides by ivory guard stripes carrying a running flower head and leaf meander, then narrow navy minor stripes that seal the whole composition. The corner detail photo shows how tightly the border turns are resolved, which is the mark of a properly drawn cartoon rather than an improvised village turn.

Color Palette

The green here is the whole point. It is a muted celadon sage, gently variegated across the field from natural abrash in the wool, never bright and never olive, and it reads almost gray in low light and clearly green in daylight. Against it the weaver placed deep indigo navy for the palmette outlines and the minor borders, warm ivory and cream for the central rosette, the guard stripes and the scattered flower heads, and pale sky blue for the smaller blossoms and leaf tips. Those cool tones are lifted by small controlled hits of terracotta rust, mustard gold and soft brown, no more than a few knots at a time, which keep the rug from going cold. The back photo shows how clean and unmuddied the dye lots are knot by knot, including the yellow and rust points that barely register from standing height. As a color story it sits beautifully with gray, walnut, brass and off-white interiors, and it is a far easier rug to live with than a traditional red Kashan.

Kashan Origin and Weaving Quality

Kashan sits in central Persia, north of Isfahan, and its weaving lineage runs back to the Safavid court workshops that produced some of the most celebrated floral rugs ever made. The town is known for soft, lustrous local wool and for a disciplined workshop approach: a drawn cartoon, a symmetrical knot, a firm cotton foundation and a low even clip that keeps fine floral drawing crisp. It is also the most recognizable Persian design in American homes, and when you watch Shark Tank there is a Persian Kashan on the floor. The back of this piece shows a tight, regular knot with no bulges or drawn-in areas across more than 13 feet of length, which is what keeps a room size rug lying flat for decades. Add the dense wool pile and this is a rug built for a main living space, not a guest room, and it will take daily traffic without losing its drawing.