10' x 12'8" Persian Heriz Rug | Geometric Star Medallion | Rustic Red & Navy | Perfect Condition

This 10' x 12'8" Persian Heriz is a proper room-size floor piece: 120" across by 152" long, hand-knotted in wool on a cotton foundation in the village workshops northwest of Tabriz during the 2000's. The drawing is the classic Heriz statement, a broad rustic red field carrying one large angular star medallion on a black ground, deep ivory corner spandrels, and a black main border of rosettes and serrated leaves framed by olive gold guard stripes. The wool is heavy and lustrous, the pile still full with no thin areas, and the fringes and selvedges are intact. It sits squarely in the working range of 10x13 Persian rugs, which is the size most American living rooms and dining rooms actually need. Every rug we sell ships with a certificate of authenticity identifying origin, materials and construction.

Design and Motifs

The center holds an 8 point star medallion drawn in straight lines and stepped angles rather than curves, with a small ringed rosette at its heart and hooked palmettes radiating out to the points. Above and below it hang trilobed black pendants filled with tiny red and ivory blossoms, and the field around the medallion is packed with angular vine scrolls, arrow-form leaves, hooked lattice elements and small hexagonal cartouches. The 4 corners carry ivory spandrels drawn with the same hard-edged vinework, which is what gives the rug its light and stops the red from closing in. The black main border runs a steady alternation of round rosettes and long serrated leaves, and the narrow olive gold stripes on either side of it act as a warm outline around the whole piece. This is textbook drawing for geometric Persian rugs: nothing is fussy, every line has purpose, and the pattern reads clearly from across a large room and from a standing height.

A Palette of Rustic Red, Navy, Olive and Ivory

The field is a rustic red that shifts gently between a deep brick tone and a cooler raspberry across the width, the natural tonal movement you get from small dye lots in village weaving, and it gives the surface a living quality that flat machine color never has. Against it the blues do most of the work: an inky navy verging on black in the medallion ground and main border, a brighter cornflower in the vine scrolls, and small hits of teal inside the palmettes. Olive green appears in the guard stripes, in scattered leaves and in the outer edge, warming the whole scheme. Ivory is used sparingly and deliberately, in the corner spandrels, the medallion outline and the tiny dots along the borders, and soft rose and pale peach turn up in the smaller flowerheads. For a buyer building a room around red and burgundy Persian rugs, this is the warm, saturated, slightly antique-toned red that sits well with walnut floors, navy upholstery and cream walls.

Woven in the Heriz Villages of Northwest Persia

Heriz is a cluster of weaving villages east of Tabriz, on the slopes below Mount Sabalan, and its reputation comes from two things: the mineral-rich water the flocks drink, which produces a famously tough, high-luster wool, and a weaving tradition that draws court patterns in straight lines because village looms and village cartoons work that way. A Heriz is not trying to be a fine Tabriz. It is knotted on a stout double-wefted cotton foundation at a moderate knot count with a generous pile height, and that combination is exactly why these rugs survive dining chairs, dogs and decades of traffic while the colors mellow rather than wear out. Turn this one over and the back shows even, well-packed rows and consistent tension from end to end, the mark of a competent workshop rather than a rushed one. At 10' x 12'8" it is a piece built to be lived on, not saved.