10' x 13' Persian Tabriz Rug | Semi-Antique All-Over Floral Ivory Field | Fine Wool, Excellent Condition

This 10' x 13' Tabriz skips the central medallion entirely and fills its ivory ground with one continuous floral field, so it reads quiet from the doorway and gets busier the closer you stand. The wool has the low sheen that only comes with time on the floor, the 3/8" pile is even from one end to the other, and the rug lies flat with no ripple along the sides. It is one of the easiest formats to live with, and if you are still measuring, our selection of 10x13 Persian rugs shows how that proportion sits under furniture. Every rug ships from Freeport with a certificate of authenticity recording origin, materials and measurements.

Design and Motifs

The field is an all-over floral design, built on a thin vine lattice that carries large hooked palmettes, 8 petal rosettes, tulip and lotus heads, split arabesque leaves and small boteh forms. The drawing mirrors across both axes, so the 4 corners resolve with the same motif and nothing is cut off awkwardly at the border line. Look closely and you can see how much work the weaver put into the small stuff: paired curling leaves that wrap each palmette, tiny 5 petal blossoms scattered between the vines, and dark outlines that keep every element legible against the pale ground. The main border runs ivory and camel palmettes with arched cartouche shapes over a walnut brown ground, framed on both sides by narrow guard stripes of a repeating blossom and leaf chain. The result is a formal curvilinear Tabriz layout that still feels relaxed because there is no single focal point competing with your furniture.

Color Palette

The ground is a warm ivory with a faint butter and oatmeal cast rather than a cold white, which is why it sits so easily on light oak floors in the photographs. Against it the reds do most of the talking: brick and tomato red in the rosette centers, a deeper burgundy in the outlines and small flower hearts, and a softened rose pink in the petals and in the border blossoms. Browns carry the structure, from the walnut and coffee tones of the main border ground to the mid tan and camel of the curling leaves and vine stems. Then come the quieter notes, olive and sage green in the leaf tips, a powdery slate blue in the small cartouche flowers and guard stripe buds, and touches of old gold through the palmettes. Dark charcoal outlining pulls everything into focus. If an ivory ground is what you are after, the rest of our ivory and beige Persian rugs sit in the same tonal family.

Tabriz Origin and Weaving Quality

Tabriz sits in the far northwest of Persia and has been the commercial and design center of the Persian rug trade for centuries. Weavers there work from a drawn cartoon on an upright loom, using the hook knife that is particular to the town, and they measure fineness in Raj, the count of knots across a gereh of roughly 2.75 inches. That workshop discipline is what makes a curvilinear all-over pattern like this one possible: the vines stay round, the palmettes keep their symmetry, and the repeat holds its register over 13 feet of length without drifting. This piece is a solid town weave rather than a 70 Raj showpiece, which is exactly what you want in a rug meant to be walked on, with a firm handle, a tight back and wool that has already proven itself. The muted tonality and the patina of the pile place it in the semi-antique range; our guide on how to date an Oriental rug explains the markers we read when we age a weave like this.