10' x 14' Persian Rug | Ivory Gold All Over Floral | Lustrous Dense Wool Pile

This is a big, calm, golden room rug. The field runs an unbroken floral repeat from border to border with no central medallion to anchor the eye, which is exactly why a piece like this settles a large room instead of competing with it. The wool is the story here: a heavy 3/8" pile, hand-knotted on a cotton foundation, with enough natural luster that the ivory gold ground shifts from pale cream to warm honey as you walk past it. At 10' x 14' it covers a full seating group with all four legs on the rug, and among 10x14 Persian rugs the light-ground all over designs are the ones people keep for thirty years. Every rug we sell ships with a certificate of authenticity confirming it is hand-knotted, and this one is priced as a working floor rug rather than a museum object.

Design and Motifs

The field is a classic Persian all over floral, one of the oldest and most forgiving of the all over rug designs, built on a lattice of thin curving vines that never quite close. Large fan-shaped palmettes sit at the crossing points, flanked by serrated saz leaves, 8 petal rosettes, small lotus heads and sprays of tiny 4 petal blossoms on hair-thin stems. The drawing is mirrored left to right and repeats up the length, so the pattern reads as continuous rather than as a set of panels, and there is no medallion and no open ground anywhere in the field. Three borders frame it. The main border is a wide beige band carrying alternating shield palmettes and turned leaf cartouches, separated on both sides by a narrow dark olive-brown guard stripe of running vine, with a final ivory gold outer guard of small paired leaves. The corners resolve cleanly, with the border drawing turning rather than being cut off, which is the mark of a cartoon that was drawn for this exact width and not simply stretched to fit.

A Closer Look at the Colors

The ground is ivory gold, closer to warm champagne than to white, and because the pile is dense and glossy it changes value with the light: pale straw from one direction, deep honey from the other. Over that ground the florals are drawn in a muted, slightly dusty palette that keeps the rug from ever looking loud. You get sage and light green in the leaf work, olive and moss in the palmette bodies, soft rose and salmon in the petals, terracotta and rust in the outlines, mustard gold in the smaller blossoms, and small hits of deep brick red and near-black charcoal at the flower centers for definition. The main border shifts to a tan taupe ground, and the guard stripes drop to a dark brown that gives the whole rug its outline and keeps the light field from floating. There is no harsh contrast anywhere, which is what makes it easy to live with next to cream walls, wood floors, brass, leather or green upholstery.

Origin and Weaving Quality

The rug is recorded as Persian in origin and the specific weaving town is not noted on the piece, which is common with post-war workshop production of this type. What the weave itself tells you is on the back, visible in the final photograph: straight, even knot rows across a cotton foundation, consistent tension from selvedge to selvedge, and a design that stays true to its cartoon over 14 feet of length with no drift or pull. That consistency over a rug this large takes a team on a single loom working for the better part of a year. The pile is cut at 3/8", heavier than a fine city weave, and the wool has the springy, high-luster handle that holds up under furniture and foot traffic rather than crushing flat. Combined with the all over drawing, which hides the occasional footprint far better than an open medallion field, this is a rug bought to be used, and it is in good condition and ready for the floor.