10'7" x 13'10" Persian Isfahan Rug | Ivory All-Over Ogee Lattice | Wool & Silk, Brand New

This is a brand new, never used Persian Isfahan rug measuring 10'7" x 13'10", hand-knotted in fine wool with silk worked into the outlines and the flower hearts. It is a room-size piece drawn as a continuous lattice rather than around a central medallion, which is the harder of the two Isfahan formats to execute cleanly, because every one of the repeating compartments has to land in register across 13'10" of length. The pile stands at a low 1/4", short enough to hold the small drawing crisp, on a cotton foundation that keeps a rug this wide flat and square. It ships with a certificate of authenticity recording origin, materials and measurements.

Design and Motifs

The field is an all-over ogee lattice: slim vine ribbons studded with tiny 5 petal white blossoms cross and recross to form pointed oval compartments, each one filled with a single flower. The compartments alternate in content as well as ground, one row carrying a broad serrated palmette with a rust heart and olive side leaves, the next a full-face lotus opened in indigo and violet over a pale rosette center. Small curling leaves, buds and reversed tendrils fill the corners of every compartment so no ground is left empty. The main border runs a chain of rust and indigo rosettes linked by leafy stems on a blue ground, framed by narrow guard stripes of the same vine, and the pattern turns the 4 corners correctly rather than being cut off, which is a fair marker of a cartoon drawn for this exact loom.

The Ivory, Sky Blue and Rust Palette

The ground alternates in diagonal bands between warm ivory, a soft dove and sky blue, and a muted sage green, so the lattice reads as a shimmer of light and shade rather than one flat color. Against that, the flowers carry the strong notes: brick and rust red in the palmettes, deep indigo and a plum violet in the lotus blooms, olive and moss in the leaf work, with tiny points of pure white blossom scattered along every vine. Where the silk sits in the outlines and petal edges it lifts a half tone brighter than the wool and shifts as you walk around the rug, which is why the field looks cooler and bluer from one end and warmer and creamier from the other. It is a genuinely multi-color rug, but the ivory and pale blue dominate, so it sits quietly with grey, walnut, brass and off white walls instead of dictating the room.

Isfahan Weaving and Quality

Isfahan sits in central Persia and has been a workshop city since the Safavid court set up its looms there in the 16th century. The reputation of the town rests on drawing rather than on color alone: the curved line, the unbroken vine, the flower that keeps its shape at the size of a thumbnail. None of that survives unless the knot count is high and the pile is clipped low, which is exactly what you see here in the clean ogee curves and the legible white blossoms on the vine. Add fine wool over a cotton foundation and silk reserved for the details, and you have the standard Isfahan recipe executed at room scale. Finding this drawing in 10x14 Persian rugs is uncommon, since most Isfahan output is woven small enough for one weaver to finish in a season.