10' x 13'2" Persian Rug | Signed Floral Medallion | Deep Red Field with Navy Indigo Borders

A signed room-size Persian rug with a deep red field, a dark indigo lobed medallion and a broad navy main border, woven in wool on a cotton foundation and finished at 3/8" pile. It is the kind of piece that anchors a full seating group without crowding it, which is why the 10x13 proportion stays the most requested of all the 10x13 Persian rugs we import. The drawing is dense and disciplined, the wool has kept its sheen, and the small cartouche near the top border tells you a named weaver put his name on the work. Every rug ships with our certificate of authenticity.

Design and Motifs

The layout is the classical Persian formula executed with real control. A large lobed medallion sits dead center on an indigo ground, its core built from a ring of red cartouches around an ivory and light blue rosette, and it throws a serrated pendant north and south into the field. Four corner spandrels repeat the medallion vocabulary in the same indigo, so the eye reads the composition as one continuous idea rather than four separate corners. The red field between them is filled edge to edge with an all-over vine scroll: curling leaves, small palmettes, rosettes and spiky sickle leaves, all drawn small enough that no single motif competes with the medallion. The main border carries a stately run of palmettes and arabesque vines on navy, flanked by ivory guard stripes of rosettes and meander, with two narrower minor bands outside those. A small rectangular cartouche sits in the ivory guard band near the top end, the weaver's woven signature in Persian script, which is always a sign the piece came off a workshop loom rather than a village one. If you want to understand how features like this help place a piece in time, our guide on how to date an Oriental rug covers what to look for.

Deep Red Field Against Dark Indigo

The palette is a two-tone argument between warm and cool, and it works. The field is a deep raspberry red with a cool cast, saturated but not orange, and it holds its depth across the full 13'2" length without streaking. Against it, the medallion, the spandrels and the main border are dark indigo running close to black in low light, which is what gives the rug its weight and why the stated color reads as indigo and navy. Inside those dark areas the weaver worked in a light sky blue and a soft turquoise for the curling leaves, and those cool accents are what keep the medallion legible instead of letting it collapse into a dark mass. Ivory does the structural work: the guard borders, the outlines of the medallion lobes and the small rosettes scattered through the field. Filling in around them are olive and sage green, a dusty rose, apricot and small notes of gold, each used in tiny quantities. The overall effect is a formal, jewel-toned rug that reads red from across a room and blue from up close.

Persian Workshop Weaving and Quality

This is Persian workshop weaving: a signed cartouche, a cartoon-drawn medallion with symmetrical pendants and matched spandrels, and curved vine work that only holds its line at a respectable knot count. The back, shown against a ruler in the last photograph, is tight and even, with clean rows and no slubbing or drift, and the cotton warps and wefts give the rug the stability a piece this size needs to lie flat year after year. The pile is good local wool at 3/8", still lustrous and springy underfoot, dense enough to take traffic in a living or dining room and to recover from furniture legs. Condition is excellent, with full even pile from end to end, straight selvages and original cotton fringe. Hand-knotted rugs of this scale and drawing were made to be used, and this one still has the great majority of its working life in front of it.