12'1" x 14' Persian Kazvin Rug | Ivory Floral Medallion | Thick Wool, Excellent Condition

This is a big, generous room piece: 12'1" x 14' of hand-knotted Persian Kazvin weaving on a cotton foundation, with a thick wool pile that still stands full and even across the whole field. The drawing is the classic Persian floral formula done well, an open ivory ground carrying a single rose-toned medallion, with the pattern gathering density only as it moves out toward the borders. Pieces at this width are genuinely hard to find in one clean panel, and among oversize Persian rugs the ones that hold their color and pile the way this one has are fewer still. It ships with a certificate of authenticity confirming the origin, the hand-knotted construction and the materials.

Design and Motifs

The center is a pointed lobed medallion built in layers: a small rosette at the very core, then a diamond of interlaced vinework, then a rose-ground ring packed with tiny blossoms, and finally a ring of curling cloud-band brackets that push out into leafy sprays at the 4 compass points. Around it the ivory field is left largely open, which is what makes the medallion read from across the room, broken only by delicate flowering branches that drift in from the corners and by a pair of small floral pendants top and bottom. The spandrels dissolve into dense bouquets of roses, carnations and serrated leaves rather than resolving into hard geometry, so the transition from open field to patterned border feels gradual. The main border is a broad scalloped band of connected floral cartouches with a wavy sage green vine tracing its inner edge, flanked by narrow guard stripes of running blossoms. There is no straight line anywhere in the drawing, which is the mark of a cartoon drawn for a city loom rather than a village one.

A Soft Multi-Color Palette on Ivory

The field is a warm ivory that reads closer to cream or light champagne in daylight, and it is that quiet ground that lets everything else work. The medallion is built on dusty rose and salmon, warming toward coral in the small rosettes and cooling into old gold in the interlace. Teal blue and deeper navy carry the leafwork and the cloud bands, and the same blues anchor the border, where sage and olive greens run through the scalloped vine. Brick and rust reds appear in the flower heads, with chocolate brown outlining the stems so the pattern keeps its definition from standing height. It is a multi-color rug in the truest sense, but the values are all held close together, which is why it never looks busy. If you are working through multi-colored Persian rugs for a room with warm walls or wood floors, this palette is an unusually forgiving one.

Kazvin Weaving in Persia

Kazvin, also spelled Qazvin, sits in north-central Persia and served as the Safavid capital before the court moved to Isfahan, so the town has an old relationship with formal, drawn-cartoon weaving rather than tribal memory work. Kazvin looms are known for exactly what you see here: a curvilinear floral medallion layout, a heavy wool pile knotted on a strong cotton foundation, and workshop-grade regularity across a very wide loom. Holding 12'1" of width straight and square over 14' of length takes a properly built loom and disciplined beating, and the selvages and end finishes on this piece are clean and original, with the ivory cotton warps left as a neat twisted fringe. The pile is cut with real body, the sort of thickness that takes furniture legs and foot traffic for decades, and the wool has a gentle sheen where the nap lies flat. Condition is excellent throughout, with full even pile and no repairs.