10' x 16'6" Persian Kashan Rug | Ivory All-Over Floral Field | Oversize Wool Pile

Rolled out flat, this piece runs 10' x 16'6", a genuine oversize footprint that will hold a full seating group plus side tables and still show border on all 4 sides. It is a hand-knotted Persian Kashan worked in the classic all-over manner on an ivory ground, with a 3/8" wool pile clipped short enough to hold the small drawing in the field yet dense enough to live under furniture. Condition is excellent: full pile from end to end, tight straight selvedges, and no low spots or repairs. Rugs at this length sit with oversize Persian rugs rather than standard room sizes, and like every hand-knotted piece we import it ships with a certificate of authenticity.

Design and Motifs

At dead center sits a small 8 petal rosette ringed by a narrow band of buds, understated enough that it reads as a pause in the pattern rather than a medallion competing for attention. Everything around it is a true all-over floral system: curved palmettes, split leaf arabesques, serrated leaves and small boteh forms threaded onto hairline vines that loop, cross and refill every gap across the field. The drawing mirrors on both axes and all 4 corners resolve identically, which is the signature of a properly cartooned workshop design rather than a field improvised at the loom. The main border carries alternating palmettes and open rosettes linked by a running vine, framed on either side by narrow guard stripes of meandering flower heads and a fine sawtooth line that keeps the whole composition contained.

The Ivory Palette Up Close

The ground is ivory leaning warm cream, not stark white, and it is the ivory that carries this rug: it throws light back into a dark-floored room and keeps a field this large from turning heavy. The drawing is outlined in a deep navy that goes almost aubergine where the wool has taken the dye most densely, and those outlines are what give the small motifs their definition at standing height. Inside them the palette runs through saffron and old gold in the palmette hearts and vine work, sage and pale celadon in the leaves, a muted terracotta rust in the smaller blossoms, and soft taupe and stone in the secondary scrollwork. The border ground repeats the same ivory as the field, so the frame is tonal rather than contrasting, a quieter effect than the red-ground Kashans and the reason buyers looking for ivory Persian rugs keep coming back to this formula.

Kashan Weaving and the Central Persian Tradition

Kashan lies in central Persia, north of Isfahan, and its looms trace back to the Safavid court workshops that set the standard for classical Persian drawing. Local wool is soft and lustrous, which is why Kashan pile takes dye cleanly and gains sheen with use, and the town's usual formula is a red field with a navy lobed medallion and ivory spandrels. This weaving inverts that formula, spreading the same vocabulary of palmette and vine across an open ivory ground, which takes more discipline from the weaver because there is nowhere for a mistake to hide. The handle is firm and flat, the clip even across the full 16'6" length, and the pattern holds its register end to end, all marks of a workshop piece rather than village work. It is also the most recognizable Persian design in America: when you watch Shark Tank there is a Persian Kashan on the floor.