10'10" x 13'2" Persian Heriz Rug | Ivory Medallion on Deep Red Field | Rare Old Squarish Room Size

This is a heavy, old-school village weave in a proportion that is hard to find: 10'10" x 13'2" reads almost squarish on the floor, which is exactly what a wide great room or a square dining room needs. The pile is thick and still full from edge to edge, the handle is dense, and the wool has the slight sheen that only comes from decades of use and correct washing. Everything here is hand-knotted wool on a cotton foundation, with a deep madder red field, a crisp ivory and indigo medallion, and a burgundy main border that holds the whole composition together. If you have been measuring for 10x13 Persian rugs and want one with real weight and age rather than a new production piece, this is that rug. It ships with a certificate of authenticity confirming origin, materials and hand-knotted construction.

Design and Motifs

The center holds a large stepped medallion built in layers: an indigo ground carrying paired palmettes, a red inner cartouche, and at the very core a small diamond outlined in gold, ivory and salmon with a sage green eye. Above and below it run tall ivory pendant finials, and the medallion is ringed by 8 ivory lobes filled with angular flower heads and serrated leaves. Navy corner spandrels anchor all 4 corners, each drawn with hooked vines and stiff blossoms. Between them the red field is packed with rosettes, vine scrolls, star flowers and the blocky forked leaves that mark true village drawing, where every curve is resolved into a straight line. The main border of dark burgundy alternates palmettes with rosette clusters and small boteh forms, framed on both sides by ivory guard stripes of meandering vine and a fine reciprocal outer stripe. Buyers who gravitate toward geometric Persian rugs will recognize the discipline in this drawing right away.

A Deep Madder Red Field Lit by Indigo, Ivory and Salmon

The field is a deep madder red that shifts between brick and wine depending on where you stand, warmest in raking light and cooler where the pile lies away from you. Against it the medallion and spandrels are a strong indigo navy that goes almost black in the shadowed knots, while the medallion outline, lobes and guard stripes are a soft buttery ivory rather than a bleached white. The detail work is where this palette earns its keep: salmon pink and blush rose in the palmettes, rust orange sparks in the small flower centers, sage green in the leaf tips and the tiny diamond core, chocolate brown outlines that separate every motif, and a few strokes of clear gold along the center diamond. The border reads darker, a burgundy brown that frames the field and keeps the red from spreading visually. It is a warm, saturated, lived-in color story that sits naturally with walnut and oak furniture, leather seating and warm white walls.

Woven in the Heriz Villages of Northwest Persia

Heriz is a cluster of weaving villages east of Tabriz, sitting below Mount Sabalan in northwest Persia. The water there runs mineral-rich, and the local wool has a reputation for being among the toughest in the country, which is why Heriz weaving is judged by durability and drawing rather than by knot count. Village looms in this district work under 200 knots per square inch as a rule, so the design is simplified into angular medallions, stepped corners and straight-line vines that read beautifully at room scale. This piece is a textbook example: heavy cotton warps and wefts, a thick wool pile beaten down hard, tight selvages and original fringes, and a back that shows clean, regular knotting across the full 130" width. Rugs like this were woven to take generations of traffic, and the surviving pile depth on a rug of this age is the clearest evidence of how well it was made and how carefully it was kept.