10'4" x 13'2" Persian Tabriz Rug | All-Over Rosette & Palmette Field | Red & Ivory | Excellent

This is a hand-knotted Persian Tabriz in a true room size, 10'4" x 13'2", with a deep red field carried edge to edge by a repeating floral lattice and finished with a wide ivory border. The wool pile sits at 3/8", dense and evenly clipped, so the drawing stays crisp and the colors read cleanly from across a room. Condition is excellent, with full pile and straight sides. It sits squarely in the most useful of the 10x13 Persian rug sizes, and it ships with a certificate of authenticity confirming origin, materials and hand-knotted construction.

Design and Motifs

There is no central medallion here. Instead the weaver filled the whole field with an all-over floral design: offset rows of rounded rosettes and pointed palmettes, each one ringed by tiny serrated leaves and joined by a fine tendril lattice that never quite repeats the same way twice. Look closely at the corner photographs and you can count the alternation, one ivory rosette, then a green one, then light blue, then cream, so the eye keeps moving instead of locking onto a single center. Small lanceolate leaves and clusters of 4 buds sit between the flower heads and lock the pattern together. The main ivory border runs a procession of large frontal rosettes and cloud-band leaf forms, and it is fenced on both sides by narrow guard stripes of blue-grey carrying a repeating rosette-and-dot chain. Corners are drawn to resolve properly, a sign the workshop worked to a full cartoon rather than improvising at the ends.

The Color Story: Brick Red, Ivory and Cool Blues

The ground is a deep brick red that warms toward garnet where the light falls across the pile, and it is deliberately broken up rather than left flat: passages of navy shadow sit behind the lattice and give the field real depth. Against that red, the flower heads are worked in soft ivory and cream, a chalky sage green, several tones of light and powder blue, muted gold and small touches of rose and coral. The wide border shifts the whole palette, an ivory to light cream ground with red and navy rosettes and lilac-blue leaf forms, which lifts the red field and keeps a rug this large from feeling heavy. The narrow guard stripes are a cool blue-grey, almost celadon in the angled photograph, and they act as a quiet buffer between the busy field and the busy border. Overall it reads as a warm red rug with cool accents, which is why it sits comfortably with both antique wood and modern upholstery.

Tabriz: Northwest Persia and the Weave Behind It

Tabriz sits in the far northwest of Persia and has been the country's most organized weaving city for centuries, the place where designers, dyers and master weavers worked in workshops to a drawn cartoon rather than from memory. Tabriz counts fineness in Raj, knots per gereh across the width, and the city's reputation rests on its ability to hold an exacting floral drawing over a very large surface without the pattern drifting. That discipline is what you are looking at in this piece: the lattice stays true across more than 13 feet of length, the border rosettes keep their spacing, and the ivory ground does not wander in tone. Tabriz weavers build on a cotton foundation with a firm, tightly packed wool pile, which is why these rugs take decades of real household traffic in a living or dining room and still hold their drawing. Among Persian Tabriz rugs, an all-over floral field in this size is the format collectors keep coming back to, because it furnishes a big room without competing with it.