10' x 19'3" Persian Kashan Rug | Signed Ivory Field with Sage Green Borders | All Over Floral

This is a genuine palace length piece: 10 feet wide and just over 19 feet long, hand-knotted in fine wool on a cotton foundation, with a signed cartouche woven into the top border. The field is ivory and carries an all over floral drawing rather than a central medallion, which is the harder of the two Kashan formats to draw well because the repeat has to stay balanced across nearly 20 feet without a medallion to anchor the eye. Rooms that need a rug this long are rare, and finding one signed, in excellent condition and in a light palette is rarer still. If you are shopping oversize Persian rugs for a long living room, gallery or banquet space, this one solves the problem without going dark. Every rug ships with a certificate of authenticity.

Design and Motifs

The field is a continuous arabesque: thin curling vines that split, loop back and carry large lobed palmettes, serrated saz leaves, tulip forms and small 8 petal rosettes. Nothing is left empty, yet the drawing never gets crowded, because the weaver alternated heavy palmettes with open runs of vine. The layout mirrors along the long axis, so the pattern reads the same from either side of the room. The border system runs 5 bands deep: a wide sage green main border of ivory cloud shaped cartouches alternating with floral bouquets, framed by narrow reciprocal vine guards and a fine outer meander. The signature cartouche sits centered in the upper border, outlined in rust and filled with woven script, the mark of a named workshop rather than an anonymous village loom. Close inspection shows the paisley boteh forms tucked between palmettes, a detail easy to miss at standing height.

A Study in Ivory and Sage Green

The ground is a warm ivory, closer to unbleached cream than to stark white, with the faint lustre that good Kashan wool takes on after the pile is clipped. Against it the drawing works in a soft sage green, the same green that fills the main border and the outer guard, giving the rug its overall celadon cast in daylight. Inside the palmettes the palette opens up: deep teal and dusty mid blue in the leaf tips and flower hearts, rust and terracotta in the small blossom centers, olive and warm brown in the larger flower heads, and near black outlines that hold every shape crisp against the light ground. A few tiny points of coral and pale sky blue appear in the border cartouches. It is a quiet, cool, decorator friendly color story, and it will not fight existing upholstery the way a classic red and navy Kashan does.

Kashan: Central Persia and the Court Workshop Tradition

Kashan sits in central Persia, north of Isfahan, and its looms trace back to the Safavid court workshops. The town's reputation rests on 2 things: soft, lustrous local wool and disciplined curvilinear drawing, and both are visible here in the clean vine line and the tight, even knotting seen on the back. A rug of this length has to be woven on a purpose built loom by a team working in step for well over a year, and the signed cartouche tells you a workshop master stood behind it. Kashan is also the Persian rug most Americans have already seen without knowing its name: when you watch Shark Tank there is a Persian Kashan on the floor. For more on how these rugs are made and graded, read our Persian Kashan rugs guide.