10'4" x 15'5" Persian Kashan Rug | Signed All-Over Floral on Sage Green | Excellent Condition

Most Kashans come to us with a red field and a lobed medallion, which is exactly why this one stopped us. The weaver skipped the medallion entirely, laid a continuous floral vine across a pale sage green ground, and then signed the work in a cartouche woven into the ivory border. At 10'4" x 15'5" it belongs in the group of oversize Persian rugs that can carry a full seating arrangement or a long dining table with chairs pulled back, and the drawing holds together at that scale without a single lazy repeat. Hand-knotted in wool on a cotton foundation, it is in excellent condition with an even, full pile, and it ships with a certificate of authenticity. If you want the background on the town and its weaving formula, read our Persian Kashan rugs guide.

Design and Motifs

The field is an all-over design built from a slow curving vine that loops the full length of the rug, throwing off palmettes, split leaves, serrated lancet leaves and small 8 petal rosettes as it travels. Look at the close-up and you can follow one navy stem as it swings out, turns back on itself and closes a compartment around a single large rosette with a red center. The layout mirrors down the long axis, so every motif on the left has a partner on the right, but the color assignments shift from one to the next and stop the repetition from reading mechanical. There is no central medallion, which makes this rug far easier to place under furniture since no one focal point gets covered. The border system is deep: a wide ivory main band of alternating palmette bouquets and vine, framed by narrow light blue guard stripes carrying a running flower and crescent motif, with two more thin outer guards at the edge. The signature cartouche sits centered in the main border, a small rectangular panel of dark navy script on ivory, the mark of a workshop piece rather than an anonymous commercial weave.

A Sage Green Field With Navy, Ivory and Rose

The ground color is the reason to buy this rug. It is a pale, dusty sage green, closer to celadon or soft seafoam than to a true green, cool and slightly grey in daylight and warmer under lamplight. Against it the drawing is carried mostly in indigo and midnight navy, with a secondary register of powder blue and teal filling the smaller flowerheads. The accents do the rest of the work: soft rose and dusty pink petals, antique gold and mustard on the palmettes, rust and terracotta in the tiny buds, ivory outlines that lift each motif clear of the field, and a scattering of true red centers no bigger than a fingertip that give the eye somewhere to land. The wide border reverses the balance, putting ivory underneath and blue on top, so the rug frames itself in a lighter tone and the sage field reads as the quieter center. It is a palette that sits easily with grey and greige upholstery, warm wood, brass and off-white walls, and it avoids the heavy red-and-navy look that many buyers associate with a formal traditional room.

Kashan: Central Persia and the Court Weaving Tradition

Kashan sits in central Persia, north of Isfahan, and its looms trace back to the Safavid court workshops that set the standard for curved-line floral drawing. The town works with soft, lustrous local wool, and the combination of that fleece with a tight cotton foundation is what gives a Kashan its characteristic sheen and its ability to stay flat and square at large sizes. Turn this one over, as in the last photograph, and the knot nodes are small, regular and tightly packed, with the outline of the border drawing legible from the back, which is the honest test of a well-woven city rug. The signed cartouche places it above the standard town production. Kashan is also the most recognizable Persian design in America: when you watch Shark Tank there is a Persian Kashan on the floor. This piece takes that familiar vocabulary and cools it down into a green and ivory all-over field at 10'4" x 15'5", a size that very few Kashans were ever woven in.