10'2" x 14'7" Persian Kashan Rug | Navy Blue All Over Floral Field | Ivory Palmette Borders

This is a full room size Persian Kashan rug, hand-knotted in wool on a cotton foundation and measuring 10'2" x 14'7". The drawing is the classic Kashan all over floral: a continuous lattice of vines and palmettes covering an inky navy field, with no open ground anywhere and a small rosette holding the exact center. It is a large formal piece that sits comfortably alongside other oversize Persian rugs, yet the scale of the flowers stays small and disciplined, which is what keeps a rug this big from looking coarse. The pile is even, the selvedges are tight, the fringes are original and the rug is in excellent condition with no wear. It ships with a certificate of authenticity.

Design and Motifs

The field is built from thin gold vine work that loops in mirrored arcs from a central 8 petal rosette outward to all 4 corners, so the pattern reads as endless repetition but is in fact perfectly balanced around the middle. Hung on that vine are lotus palmettes, cupped tulips, serrated saz leaves, small five petal blossoms and pairs of curled buds, each outlined so that no two neighbors blur into one another. The close-up photographs show how much detail sits inside a single flower: a rose heart, an ivory ring of petals, a sky blue outer fan, a rust hook at the stem. Framing this is a wide navy main border carrying alternating urn shaped palmettes and cypress-like sprays, flanked by narrow ivory guard stripes of running vine and rosette. The last image, with a ruler laid across the border, lets you count the knot rows yourself and see how finely the small motifs are articulated.

Color Palette

The ground is a very deep navy blue that photographs almost black in the full views and opens up to a true indigo, slightly aubergine in the light, when you stand over it. Against that darkness the palette is deliberately warm: cream and ivory for the bulk of the blossoms, a soft saffron gold for every stem and vine, and dusty rose, salmon and peach through the palmette hearts. Cooler notes of sky blue, teal and pale olive green appear inside the leaves and flower centers, with small hits of brick rust and true red used sparingly as punctuation. The borders invert the balance, setting ivory and pale lavender grounds against the navy so the rug is framed in light. The overall effect is a dark, quiet floor that still carries color, which is why navy Kashans work so well under heavy wood furniture and in rooms with strong daylight.

Kashan Origin and Weaving Quality

Kashan sits in central Persia, north of Isfahan, and its looms trace back to the Safavid court workshops that set the standard for curvilinear floral weaving. The town has always had two advantages: soft, lustrous local wool that takes dye deeply and holds a sheen for decades, and a design tradition strict enough that Kashan drawing is recognizable across a room. Kashan is also the most familiar Persian rug in American homes; when you watch Shark Tank there is a Persian Kashan on the floor. This example is town workshop weaving rather than village work, knotted on a cotton warp and weft with a firm handle and a low, level clip that keeps the fine vine work legible. At 10'2" x 14'7" it took a wide loom and a long run of disciplined knotting, and the pattern stays true from end to end without the drift you often see in large pieces.