10'4" x 20'10" Persian Kashan Rug | Signed Ivory All Over Floral | Oversize Palace Size

At 10'4" x 20'10" this is a palace length piece, running more than 20 feet down a room while still holding a generous 10 foot width, and it is the kind of loom work that only a serious town workshop attempts. The field is a warm ivory, drawn corner to corner with an all over arabesque instead of a central medallion, and the whole composition is held inside a sage green main border. One end of the inner ivory guard band carries a woven signature cartouche, which tells you a named workshop stood behind it rather than an anonymous village loom. The pile is fine wool on a cotton foundation, dense and evenly clipped across the entire surface, with the low even nap that Persian Kashan rugs are known for. Buyers shopping oversize Persian rugs in this length know how few genuine signed examples come up, and this one ships with a certificate of authenticity documenting origin, materials and hand-knotted construction.

Design and Motifs

The field is an all over arabesque built on a mirrored axis: pairs of large curling split leaves sweep outward from slender vine stems, and between them sit lobed palmettes, 8 petal rosettes, small tulip heads and tight leaf clusters. The drawing repeats down the length of the rug in offset rows, so the eye reads a continuous garden rather than a single focal point, which is exactly what you want in a room this long, since no sofa or dining table can crop the design. The main border is a green ground running a connected vine with alternating palmettes and flowering sprays, and it is flanked on each side by narrow guard stripes of reciprocal rosettes and small trefoils in pale blue. One guard band opens into an ivory cartouche holding the woven signature, set directly on the center line of the end border. Corners are resolved cleanly, with the border vine turning through all 4 corners without the design breaking, a detail that separates workshop cartoon work from copied village drawing.

The Ivory, Green and Blue Palette

The ground is a soft ivory with a faint wheat warmth to it, not a bleached white, so it reads as cream under daylight and turns slightly golden under lamps. Against that the border is a muted sage green, closer to celadon than to a saturated bottle green, which is an unusual and collectible choice for this design. The blues do the real work in the field: pale sky blue fills many of the leaf bodies, a mid teal outlines the vines, and deep indigo is used sparingly for the finest contour lines and for the small dark accents inside the palmettes. Around those sit quiet supporting tones of olive, warm taupe and a restrained terracotta rust that appears in the rosette centers and in a few border blossoms. The overall effect is cool and light rather than the red and navy formula most people picture on a Kashan, so the rug sits comfortably in a room with pale walls, natural oak or stone floors, and mixed woods.

Kashan Weaving and Workshop Quality

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's advantage has always been its wool, soft and lustrous, which takes dye cleanly and holds a low clipped pile without going dull. When you watch Shark Tank there is a Persian Kashan on the floor, which is why the name is familiar even to people who have never bought a handmade rug. Weaving a piece 20'10" long means a purpose built loom, a full length cartoon and a team of weavers working the same knot tension for years, and any drift in beat-down would show immediately as waisting along a rug this narrow in proportion to its length. This one runs straight, the selvedges are even, the ivory cotton fringe is original and secure, and the wool pile still has its full body from end to end.