10'1" x 13'3" Persian Bijar Design Rug | All Over Lobed Panel Field | Red Wool, Excellent Condition

Laid out flat, this 10'1" x 13'3" Persian rug reads as one continuous flowering field rather than a single centered medallion. A lattice of lobed panels runs edge to edge, each compartment holding an 8 petal rosette or a spray of small blossoms, and the drawing stays tight and legible all the way into the 4 corners. The pile is fine wool on a cotton foundation, hand-knotted on one loom, clipped low and evenly so the smallest flower heads keep their outline instead of blurring together. At just over 10 feet by 13 feet it carries a full seating group or a 10 seat dining table with the chairs pulled back, which puts it squarely in the practical heart of our 10x13 Persian rugs. Every rug leaves our Freeport warehouse with a certificate of authenticity recording origin, materials and measurements.

Design and Motifs

The structure is a repeating panel lattice: broad lobed arcs outlined in periwinkle blue link up across the field to form rounded compartments, and where 4 arcs meet the weaver sets a crisp 8 petal rosette in olive, camel and navy with a single blue center dot. Between the rosettes sit upright bouquets of small ivory and salmon blossoms on thin white vine, flanked by curling split leaves and tiny serrated palmettes. The repeat is deliberate rather than mechanical, so the greens and browns shift slightly from one rosette to the next and the eye keeps moving. The border scheme is layered: a wide navy main band carrying a reciprocal vine with pink and ivory palmettes, framed inside and out by camel and ivory pearl stripes, then a brick red minor band of scrolling vine and rosettes, finishing in a narrow ivory outer guard. The ends are even, the selvages are intact, and the pattern meets the border cleanly without the squeezed or truncated corners you see on hurried work.

A Deep Tomato Red Field With Navy, Ivory and Periwinkle

The ground is a deep tomato red with a faint brick undertone, warm rather than orange, and it holds its depth across the whole field with only the gentle tonal movement good wool gives when the light crosses it. Against that red the drawing is built from cool colors: navy in the main border and in the rosette centers, a soft periwinkle blue in the panel outlines and the smaller flower heads, and a clear ivory that does most of the work of separating one motif from the next. Warmer notes come in at motif scale, salmon pink blossoms, dusty rose buds, camel and tobacco gold in the guard stripes, and a muted olive green in the leaves and rosette petals that keeps the whole thing from tipping too sweet. The overall effect is a classic warm red room rug that reads as patterned texture from standing height, and it sits naturally with other red and burgundy Persian rugs if you are matching an existing scheme.

Origin, Design Tradition and Weaving Quality

The panel and rosette drawing belongs to the Bijar tradition of Kurdish northwest Persia, the weaving town that earned its reputation as the iron rug of Persia because the weavers pack the wefts down with a heavy metal comb and produce a body that simply refuses to wear out. Our records list this piece as Persian with a Bijar design, so we sell it on the drawing and on the weave in front of us rather than on a workshop attribution we cannot prove. What the back photograph shows is an even, well packed knot structure on a cotton warp, tight enough to carry the fine outlining the design depends on, with straight rows and no pulled or wavy areas across 13 feet of length. The wool is springy and takes light well, the clip is low and uniform, and the rug lies flat without crimp. If you are comparing it against other Persian Bijar rugs, look at the rosette centers: that is where a careless weaver loses the pattern, and here every one of them is clean.