10'9" x 22'1" Persian Tabriz Rug | Ivory Floral Field, Green Border | 60 Raj, Approx. 400 KPSI

A 22 foot gallery length rug in this weave does not come along often. This 10'9" x 22'1" Persian Tabriz was woven on a cotton foundation with a fine 3/8" wool pile at roughly 60 Raj, about 400 knots per square inch, which is the level where a Tabriz workshop can draw a curved vine without breaking the line. The proportions are unusual: it is long enough to run a full banquet hall or a double length great room, yet still narrow enough to sit cleanly between furniture, which is why weavers rarely committed a loom to a piece like this. Condition is excellent, with even pile across the whole 22 feet and original hand-tied cotton fringe at both ends. Every rug we sell ships with a certificate of authenticity, and among oversize Persian rugs this one is a genuine hard-to-find size.

Design and Motifs

The center holds an 8 petal star medallion built in layers, a small round rosette at its core, a ring of cusped petals around it, and a scalloped outer edge that finishes in a pendant at the head and foot. Around it the ivory field is worked as a continuous vine scroll: palmettes, half open blossoms, curled acanthus leaves and the serrated saz leaf, all drawn with the fluid curvilinear line that separates a workshop Tabriz from a village weave. The 4 corner spandrels carry a lattice and a heavy palmette cluster, drawn in caramel and gold so they read as distinct panels rather than as a repeat of the field. The main border runs a wide meander of rosettes and leafy vine, framed inside and out by narrow guard stripes of small connected blossoms, and the drawing keeps its rhythm over the full 22 foot length, with no compression or stretching where the weavers changed shifts.

The Ivory, Green and Blue Palette

The field is a warm undyed ivory, closer to unbleached cream than to white, and it is the reason the rug can occupy 22 feet of floor without feeling heavy. The main border turns to a muted sage green, dusty rather than bright, with olive tones in the leafwork. Blue does the detail work throughout: deep midnight blue outlining the palmettes, a chalky powder blue in the flower heads, and a softer teal in the medallion center. The medallion itself reads rose to salmon with terracotta shading, and the same rose repeats in the thin guard stripes so the eye is led along the length of the rug. Secondary accents of caramel, gold and ash grey appear in the spandrels and in the scattered leaves. It is a light, restrained palette, the kind Tabriz made for formal rooms, and it sits easily with pale walls, dark wood floors and antique furniture alike.

Tabriz Weaving and Quality

Tabriz in northwest Persia is the city that made the Persian rug a commercial art, and its workshops still measure fineness by the Raj, the number of knots across a gereh of about 2.75 in. At 40 Raj a rug is commercial, at 50 it is fine, and 60 Raj, roughly 400 knots per square inch, is where collector quality begins. That count is what allows the vine here to curve smoothly and the medallion outlines to stay crisp instead of stepping. Woven on a cotton foundation with a tight, level Turkish knot, the back shown in the last photograph is even and dense, which is exactly what you want in a rug this long, because an oversize piece lives or dies on how straight it lies. Buyers comparing Persian Tabriz rugs at this scale will find plenty of 9x12 examples and very few honest 11 by 22 gallery pieces in excellent condition.