10' x 13'9" Persian Kashan Rug | Greenish Ivory Field with Blue Medallion | Signed Cartouche

Most Kashans arrive in the classic red and navy formula, which is exactly why this one stops you. The field here reads as a pale greenish ivory, closer to celadon than cream, and the whole drawing floats on it in blue, coral and soft olive. It is a full room-size piece at 10' x 13'9", hand-knotted in wool on a cotton foundation with a 3/8" pile that still stands up crisply, and one end carries a woven cartouche, the weaver's own mark left in the border. Condition is excellent throughout, with even pile, straight sides and full original ends. If you have been shopping 10x14 Persian rugs and keep finding the same dark palettes, this is the alternative. It ships with a certificate of authenticity documenting origin, materials and hand-knotted construction.

Design and Motifs

The center holds a small, tightly drawn rosette medallion, a navy disc ringed with blue lanceolate leaves and red buds around an olive and ivory flower head. From there the field opens rather than crowds: curling vine stems, feathered acanthus sprays, cypress-like leaf clusters and scattered blossoms radiate outward in perfect mirror symmetry along both axes, with matching pendants above and below the medallion. The corner spandrels and the wide main border are where the rug really talks, packed with large curling boteh paisleys, palmettes and rosettes on a deeper olive ground, each paisley outlined in a different combination of blue, coral, ivory and red so no two read the same at a glance. Fine reciprocal guard stripes with small four-petal flowers frame the whole composition and keep all that movement contained. The traditions of Persian Kashan rugs are all here in the structure, but the drawing is looser and more botanical than the usual lobed-medallion formula.

A Greenish Ivory Field with Blue and Coral Accents

The ground color is the reason to own this piece. It sits between pale sage and ivory, a muted grey-green that shifts with the light and with the direction of the pile, reading almost silver from one end and softly celadon from the other. The border steps a full shade darker into dusty olive, which gives the rug a clear frame without any hard contrast line. Against those two greens the ornament carries three families of accent color: medium cornflower blue and deep navy do most of the work in the paisleys and the medallion, coral and salmon soften the flower heads, and small hits of true red and clean ivory keep the whole thing from going flat. There is olive and moss green in the leafwork as well, tying the motifs back into the field. Anyone building a room around green Persian rugs will find this an unusually quiet, livable version of the color, one that works with warm woods, greys and off-white walls alike.

Kashan Weaving and Quality

Kashan sits in central Persia, north of Isfahan, and its weaving lineage runs straight back to the Safavid court workshops. The town's reputation was built on two things: soft, lustrous local wool that takes dye beautifully and holds a sheen for generations, and a curvilinear drawing discipline that demands a high knot count to execute cleanly. This rug shows both. The back photograph makes the case plainly, with small, tightly packed knots in even rows, crisp motif outlines that hold their shape down to the single-knot flower centers, and no slack or wander in the weave. It is a workshop piece rather than village work, which is what the woven cartouche signals. Kashan is also the rug most Americans have already seen without knowing its name: when you watch Shark Tank there is a Persian Kashan on the floor. At 10' x 13'9" this one is sized for a living room with the furniture set fully on it, or a dining table with chairs that never leave the pile.