10'1" x 13' Persian Tabriz Rug | Navy Blue All-Over Rosette and Boteh Field | Excellent Condition

This is a room-size Tabriz woven on a cotton foundation with a tightly clipped 3/8" wool pile, and it does the hard thing well: it holds a small, repeating drawing dead straight across 13 feet of length without the pattern drifting. There is no central medallion here. Instead the navy field carries an unbroken repeat of framed rosettes and boteh, each one outlined in a different palette, so the rug reads as texture from standing height and as hundreds of separate small flowers once you kneel down. The rust main border with its ivory guard stripes frames the whole thing cleanly, and the selvedges and fringes are intact and even. At 10'1" x 13" the proportions suit a living room seating group or a long dining table, and it sits comfortably among 10x13 Persian rugs that need to fill a formal room without a medallion competing with the furniture. Every rug we ship carries a certificate of authenticity.

Design and Motifs

The field is a true all-over design, built from staggered rows of small enclosed rosettes alternating with boteh, the almond shaped paisley form that runs through northwest Persian drawing. Each unit is ringed by a serrated cartouche and joined to its neighbours by thin curling vines and tiny lancet leaves, with slender candle-like stems rising between the rows. Because the repeat is offset row by row, the eye picks up diagonals as readily as verticals, which is exactly what keeps a borderless field like this from looking mechanical. The rust main border runs a procession of larger ivory and gold palmettes alternating with upright vase-and-leaf sprays, and it is flanked by 4 narrow guard stripes: a reciprocal ivory band of linked rosettes on either side of the main band, plus a fine navy meander at the outer edge. The corners are resolved properly, with the border drawing turning rather than being cut off, which is the mark of a weaver following a full cartoon instead of improvising at the ends.

Color: Deep Navy Field, Rust Border, Ivory and Sky Blue Detail

The ground is a dark ink navy blue, close to midnight where the pile lies away from the light and warming toward a clear cobalt where it lies toward it. Against that, the small motifs are worked in ivory and soft cream, a pale sky blue that reads almost turquoise in the detail shots, a warm gold, brick red, terracotta and small notes of bottle green. Individual rosette centres pick up burgundy and a dusty rose, and the little vines between them are the palest blue, which is what gives the field its lacy quality from a distance. The main border shifts the whole rug warm: a rust orange ground, closer to burnt brick than to true orange, carrying ivory, mustard gold and green palmettes. The ivory guard stripes act as a bright seam between the two dominant tones, so the navy never bleeds into the rust visually. In practical terms this is a dark rug that lightens a room rather than weighing it down, and it works against both cool greys and warm woods. Navy with rust is one of the most forgiving combinations in Persian Tabriz rugs, which is part of why the city wove the palette for decades.

Tabriz: Origin and Weaving Quality

Tabriz sits in the northwest corner of Persia and has been the country's most organised weaving city for centuries, working from full paper cartoons with a hook-and-knife tool that lets a weaver hold a fine, regular knot line all day. Tabriz fineness is measured in Raj, the number of knots across a gereh of roughly 2.75 inches, and the shortcut for a buyer is that the smaller and more regular the individual motif, the higher the count behind it. On this piece the rosettes are drawn small enough that each one resolves cleanly, with the ivory outlines unbroken and the vine work still legible at a single knot's width, which is only possible on a well-beaten cotton warp. The pile is clipped low and even, the wool has kept its lustre, and the rug lies flat with squared ends and straight selvedges. Condition is excellent, with no repairs, no reweaving and no thin areas visible in the photographs. A 10x13 in this weight of wool is a floor covering meant to be walked on for another generation.