10'2" x 14'2" Persian Rug | Traditional Navy Blue Floral Medallion | 1970's, Excellent Condition

This 10'2" x 14'2" Persian rug was woven in the 1970's on a cotton foundation with a full wool pile, and it is the sort of piece that sold by the thousand to people who actually wanted to live on their rugs. Deep navy blue field, oxblood red main border, a red and ivory medallion holding the center, and roughly 50 years later the pile is still full, the colors still clear, and the drawing still crisp from corner to corner. At just over 14 feet long it covers a full dining set or a large seating group, and it sits comfortably among our 10x14 Persian rugs as a true room-size piece rather than a floating accent. Every rug we ship leaves Freeport with a certificate of authenticity recording the origin, materials, age and measurements.

Design and Motifs

The layout is the classic Persian formula done properly. A red lobed medallion sits dead center on the navy ground, its core drawn in beige and ivory around a small pink and navy rosette, with the lobes breaking into tight curling vine tips. Above and below it the field runs into stepped pendants, and the balance of the ground is filled with an all-over system of scrolling vines, palmettes, serrated leaves and small 8 petal rosettes that never quite repeat the same way twice. All 4 corners carry ivory and peach spandrels packed with navy and teal palmettes, so the field reads as a framed panel rather than an open ground. The border scheme is deep: a wide red main band of reciprocal palmettes and coiled vine, flanked by light blue floral guard stripes, a zigzag ivory and peach minor stripe, and a final outer band that closes against a plain navy selvage and ivory fringe. Close in, the border detail photographs show how cleanly the outlines were drawn, which is where village and workshop weaving separate.

The Color: Deep Indigo Navy Against Oxblood Red

The field is a dark saturated navy that leans indigo, deep enough in the corners and under the medallion to read almost black, and it is the reason this piece anchors a room the way lighter grounds cannot. The main border is a warm oxblood red, a shade or two deeper than brick, and the contrast of that red against the navy is the whole architecture of the rug. Inside both areas the palette works in close steps: ivory and cream for the outlines and the spandrel grounds, a soft peach and light salmon beige for the leaf bodies and the medallion core, light blue and a clear teal through the guard bands and the smaller vine work, and small touches of soft celadon green in the palmette hearts that keep the field from going monochrome. Pink red highlights appear in the rosettes at the closest range. If deep blue is the deciding factor in your room, this piece belongs in the same conversation as our other navy blue Persian rugs.

Persian Origin and Weaving Quality

The rug carries no woven signature, so we sell it honestly as Persian without attaching a town name to it, but the medallion and spandrel formula, the vine drawing and the multi-band border all belong to the central Persian workshop tradition that supplied the market through the middle of the last century. The construction tells the rest: a cotton warp and weft for stability at this length, a hand-knotted wool pile with real lanolin left in it, and a tight flat back visible in the final photograph where the knot rows run straight and even across 122 inches of width. Wool of this grade is why a 1970's rug still has full pile after half a century of use. If you want to understand the clues we look at when we put an age on a piece like this, our guide on how to date an Oriental rug walks through the same reasoning. It is a working rug with a collector's drawing, and at this size it will outlast the room it goes into.