10' x 12'7" Persian Tabriz Rug | All-Over Shah Abbasi Palmettes | Red & Navy, Excellent Condition

This is a full room-size Persian Tabriz woven in wool on a cotton foundation, with an all-over Shah Abbasi field rather than the usual central medallion, which is the harder of the two layouts to draw well. The pile stands at 3/8", even from end to end, and the handle is firm and flat, the way a well built Tabriz should feel underfoot. At 10 feet by 12 feet 7 inches it covers a standard large living room wall to wall with room for furniture legs on the rug, and it sits squarely in the most searched of all 10x13 Persian rugs footprints. The back-of-rug photograph shows the original inventory tag and the knotting visible through the foundation. Every rug we sell ships with a certificate of authenticity confirming origin, materials and hand-knotted construction.

Design and Motifs

The field carries a repeating Shah Abbasi system of large lotus palmettes, 8 petal rosettes and curled saz leaves, all linked by a thin vine that loops back on itself so the pattern never visibly stops. Look closely at the field detail photograph and you can follow a single stem as it splits, throws off a cluster of tiny blossoms, and rejoins the next palmette; that continuity is what separates a drawn all-over Persian rug design from a stamped repeat. Palmettes alternate in scale and in facing direction, and a few are filled with a dark navy rosette that reads almost like a small medallion on its own. The main border runs a navy ground with the same palmette vocabulary scaled down, flanked by an ivory guard stripe of paired blossoms and a narrow yellow-gold outer ribbon. The corners resolve cleanly, with the border drawing turning the corner rather than being cut off, which is the detail most buyers check first.

Color Palette

The ground is a warm tomato red that shifts toward brick under low light and toward a lighter coral where the pile lies away from the viewer, as you can see between the overhead shot and the angled floor shot. Against it the borders go deep navy, almost black-blue at the outer edge, which frames the field and keeps the red from reading hot. The motifs themselves are where the color really lives: ivory and cream palmettes, soft teal and powder blue petal fills, olive and sage green leafage, warm camel and brown shading on the larger flower heads, plus small hits of rose, salmon and yellow-gold in the border blossoms. Ivory guard stripes and ivory fringe at both ends give the whole piece a bright outline. It is a traditional red and navy Persian palette, but the secondary greens and blues make it far more versatile than a plain red rug, and it works over dark hardwood, over light oak, and against both cream and deep painted walls.

Tabriz Origin and Weaving Quality

Tabriz sits in northwest Persia and has been the commercial and artistic center of Persian weaving for centuries, the city where the Shah Abbasi repertoire was preserved and where fineness is still measured in Raj, the number of knots across a gereh of about 2.75 inches. Tabriz workshops weave on cotton with a taut warp and beat each row down hard, which is why a Tabriz of this class lies flat, holds its rectangle, and shows no waisting along the sides even at 12 feet 7 inches long. The drawing here is workshop drawing, not village drawing: the vine curves are continuous, the palmette outlines are held in a single dark line, and the repeat is registered evenly across the full 10 foot width. Browse more Persian Tabriz rugs to compare weaves, but for a large formal room in red and navy this one is already doing the job it was made for.