10'2" x 13'2" Persian Kashan Rug | All Over Boteh Design | Signed | Ivory Field

Most Kashans arrive with a red field and a navy medallion, so a light, quiet one like this stands apart the moment it is unrolled. This persian kashan rug covers its full 10'2" x 13'2" with a repeating boteh, the ancient paisley figure, drawn row after row on an ivory ground with no medallion at all to break the rhythm. The wool is fine and lustrous, hand-knotted on a cotton foundation, and the pile still stands full and even across a piece this large, which is why the condition reads Excellent rather than merely good. A woven cartouche sits in the upper border, the weaver's own mark on a rug that clearly took years to finish. Every rug we sell ships with a certificate of authenticity, and at this scale it belongs with our other 10 x 13 Persian rugs that furnish a full room without a seam.

Design and Motifs

The field is a true all over design, built from hundreds of boteh figures set in staggered rows that lean the same direction, each one filled with tiny blossoms, hooked tendrils and a curling tip. Between them sit small 6 petal rosettes and slender leaf sprays that stitch the rows together so the eye reads a woven textile rather than a grid. The border system is the interesting part: a wide outer band carries oversized boteh at roughly 4 times the scale of those in the field, a narrow ivory guard band repeats them small again, and thin serrated ribbons of navy and rust separate the bands. The corners are resolved cleanly, with the large border paisleys turning into the corner instead of being cut off, which is the sort of drawing discipline you only get from a workshop cartoon. There is no medallion, no spandrel and no central focus, so the pattern runs uninterrupted under furniture and reads calm from across the room.

A Palette Built on Ivory, Sage and Soft Blue

The ground is ivory moving toward warm cream, with a faint sand tone where the light catches the pile, and that pale field is what makes every other color legible. The boteh themselves are worked mainly in soft sage green and a muted olive, outlined in slate and light sky blue, with deep navy used sparingly for the outlines and the small star forms that float between the rows. Touches of rust and terracotta appear in the tiny blossom centers and in the thin ribbon lines of the borders, warming the palette just enough to keep it from reading cool, and a few flecks of mustard and pale gold turn up in the leaf sprays. Nothing here is saturated or loud: the whole rug sits in the neutral register, which is why it works over pale oak, limestone or a dark hardwood without fighting the room. Anyone shopping the beige and ivory rugs range for something with real hand-knotted depth rather than flat modern color will recognise what this one is doing.

Kashan Weaving and the Quality of This Piece

Kashan sits in central Persia, north of Isfahan, and its weaving lineage runs straight back to the Safavid court workshops. Two things built the city's name: soft, lustrous local wool that takes dye beautifully and holds a sheen for generations, and a workshop tradition of weaving from a drawn cartoon so that curved lines and repeating motifs stay exact across a large surface. It is also the rug most Americans have already seen without knowing it, since when you watch Shark Tank there is a Persian Kashan on the floor. On this piece the density is high enough that the small boteh keep their outlines and the tips of the paisleys stay sharp rather than blurring, and the beat-down is consistent from one end to the other, with no waisting on a 13 foot length. The weaver signed it in the upper border, which in Kashan practice means a workshop piece rather than village work, and the pile depth still present across the field tells you it spent its life stored rather than walked on.