10' x 12'5" Persian Tabriz Rug | All-Over Floral Design | Navy Blue & Red, Excellent Condition

This is a room-size Persian Tabriz woven in the all-over manner rather than around a central medallion, which is the harder of the two layouts to draw well because every repeat has to line up across 149" of length without the eye catching a seam. The field is a deep navy blue carried edge to edge, the main border a clear tomato red, and the pile is a 3/8" wool that still has its full body and luster in the photographs. At 10' x 12'5" it covers a standard large living room or seats a 10 person dining table with chairs pulled back, and the condition is excellent with no repairs, no low spots and complete selvages and fringe. Every rug we sell ships with a certificate of authenticity confirming origin, materials and hand-knotted construction.

Design and Motifs

The field is an all-over floral lattice built on a thin olive-brown vine that curls back on itself and connects every element, so the design reads as one continuous garden rather than a grid of separate flowers. Large lanceolate palmettes sit at the center of each repeat, flanked by curved saz leaves drawn with a white outline that lifts them off the dark ground, and between them sit open 8 petal rosettes, carnation heads, small tulip sprays and tiny star flowers scattered as filler. The drawing mirrors precisely along both the long and short axes, a discipline you see clearly in the close-up photographs where the same ivory and coral palmette appears left and right of the center line in identical form. The main red border carries a rhythm of navy and ivory palmettes alternating with bouquets of small flowers on a scrolling stem, and it is framed on both sides by narrow ivory guard bands filled with a reciprocal vine and dot motif that stops the red from crowding the field.

A Navy Blue Field Against Tomato Red

The ground is a saturated navy blue with a slight violet cast where the light catches the pile, deep enough to read almost black in shadow and clearly blue in the detail shots. Against it the border red is bright and warm, closer to tomato than to burgundy, and the ivory guard stripes act as the pause between the two. Inside the field the palette opens up considerably: soft sage and celadon green in the leaves, saffron and old gold in the palmette centers, rose pink and salmon in the smaller blossoms, pale sky blue in the rosette hearts, and cream to ivory in the outlines that give the whole design its clarity. That mix of jewel tones on a dark ground is why this rug anchors a room instead of disappearing into it, and it is the reason collectors keep coming back to navy blue Persian rugs for formal spaces with pale walls or dark wood floors.

Tabriz, Northwest Persia, and the Weave

Tabriz sits in the northwest of Persia, in Azerbaijan province, and has been the country's most organized weaving city for five centuries. Weavers there work on vertical looms with a hooked knife, they count fineness in Raj rather than in knots per inch, and the city's workshops have always been the ones asked to execute the most demanding curvilinear cartoons, which is exactly what an all-over floral of this kind requires. The wool here is dense and well spun, the pile is clipped at 3/8" so the drawing stays crisp, and the cotton foundation gives the rug the flat, square lie you can see in the full floor photograph. Anyone comparing pieces across the city's output will find the range in our Persian Tabriz rugs collection, from medallion layouts to all-over fields like this one.