10' x 15'9" Persian Tabriz Rug | Berry Red Field with Teal Medallion | Excellent Condition

This is a full room piece: 10' x 15'9" of hand-knotted wool pile on a cotton foundation, drawn in the classic Tabriz manner with one teal medallion floating on a wide, deliberately open berry red field. The weaver held back on the field so the eye travels straight to the center, which is exactly why a rug like this settles a big room instead of shouting in it. The pile is full and evenly clipped, the sides and ends are intact, and the fringe is clean white cotton. It sits comfortably under a 10 or 12 seat dining table or across a long living room, and it belongs with the large 10x16 Persian rugs we import directly rather than the commercial room sizes. It ships with a certificate of authenticity.

Design and Motifs

The center holds a lobed, many pointed medallion in deep teal, filled with an ivory cartouche of curling vine and small 8 petal rosettes around a single blue and rose palmette. Above and below it, slim pendant finials run out into the field, each ending in a small teal cup with a rose blossom inside, trailed by feathered leaf tips and free floating scroll sprays. The 4 corner spandrels are the showpiece: broad ivory to pale chartreuse panels packed with curling cloud band arabesques, wine red rosettes and split leaves, with one section of each corner dropped into a soft slate blue ground so the drawing reads in two tones. The main border carries alternating lotus palmettes and upright leaf and blossom clusters on crimson, framed by navy guard stripes of meandering vine and tiny star rosettes. The corners resolve cleanly, a sign the cartoon was properly planned rather than cut to fit.

A Berry Red Field with Teal and Ivory

The field is a rich berry red that leans toward magenta under direct light and deepens to a wine tone in the shade, the kind of shift good wool gives when the dye has taken all the way into the fiber. Against it, the medallion reads as a dark teal green, almost pine at the outer band and cooler where the ivory core sits. The spandrels move from cream to a pale butter yellow, with slate blue insets that cool the whole corner down, and their outlines are drawn in near black navy for definition. Scattered through the drawing are accents of rose pink, soft coral, olive green, mustard gold and a clear mid blue in the small rosettes, so the palette stays lively at close range while still reading as red, teal and ivory from across the room. The crimson border repeats the field tone one shade warmer, which keeps the whole rug tied together.

Tabriz: The Town and the Weave

Tabriz sits in the northwest of Persia and has been the country's most organized weaving city for centuries, working from drawn cartoons with fineness measured in Raj, the number of knots per gereh across the width. That workshop discipline is what makes a curved medallion and a flowing arabesque possible at this scale: every lobe on the spandrels matches its opposite, and the border turns the corner without a break in the repeat. The cotton warp and weft give a rug of 10' x 15'9" the stability it needs to lie flat over a big floor, while the wool is the tough, lustrous northwest clip that packs down over the years instead of shedding out. The back shows tight, regular knotting with crisp color separation, and the pile still stands full, which is the honest measure of how a city rug has been kept.