10' x 13'3" Persian Heriz Rug | Geometric Medallion, Deep Red Field | Excellent Condition

This is a full room size Persian Heriz, hand-knotted in wool on a cotton foundation and drawn with the confident angular line that makes this weaving group so recognizable. At 10' x 13'3" it covers a formal seating group or a dining table with all chairs pulled back, and it belongs to the most requested of all 10x13 Persian rugs. The pile is even from end to end, the selvedges are intact, and the wool still carries the dry, slightly glossy handle that good Heriz fleece keeps for decades. Every rug we sell ships with a certificate of authenticity confirming origin, materials and hand-knotted construction.

Design and Motifs

The field is organized around a large stepped medallion built from hooked outlines, cross filled panels and small 8 petal rosettes, with a tall serrated pendant reaching toward each end. Broad ivory spandrels fill the 4 corners, each packed with zigzag leaf forms, hooked palmettes and dark navy panels that read almost like separate small compositions. Between medallion and corners the ground carries angular vines, serrated leaves and stylized blossoms, all drawn in straight lines rather than curves, which is exactly how the village looms translate a court pattern into a village idiom. A wide main border of turtle palmettes and rosettes runs between narrow floral guard stripes, and the slight irregularities from motif to motif are the fingerprint of genuine loom drawing rather than machine repetition. Buyers who like this vocabulary tend to look at the wider family of geometric Persian rugs as well.

A Deep Red Field with Ivory, Navy and Olive

The dominant color is a deep brick red that shifts under light from a cooler burgundy in the shadows to a warm terracotta where the pile lies away from you, the natural abrash of hand-dyed wool. Against it the ivory corner spandrels and the ivory outlines inside the medallion give the whole composition its structure and keep the red from reading heavy. Dark navy carries the main border and the small filled panels in the corners, while olive green, soft salmon pink, camel and pale sky blue appear in the leaves, rosettes and cross panels, giving the field its flecked, tapestry-like depth in close view. Rooms with cream walls, walnut furniture or brass accents take this palette easily, and it sits comfortably alongside other red and burgundy Persian rugs.

Heriz Weaving in Northwest Persia

Heriz is a group of villages east of Tabriz, on the slopes below Mount Sabalan, where mineral-rich water and hard mountain grazing produce a famously tough, high-lanolin wool. That wool, combined with a sturdy cotton warp and a heavy beat-down, is why Heriz rugs have a reputation as the workhorse of Persian weaving: they take traffic for generations and simply burnish rather than wear thin. Village looms here work from memory and small cartoons rather than a full workshop design, which is why the drawing is angular, the lines are straight and the corners resolve in steps. Knot counts in this group usually sit under 200 per square inch by design, since the value is in the wool, the dyes and the scale rather than in fineness, and this piece shows that construction clearly in the thick, dense pile visible against the ruler.