12'3" x 17'2" Persian Kashan Rug | All-Over Floral Beige Field | Sage Green Border | Oversize

This 12'3" x 17'2" Persian Kashan is a genuine palace size floor piece, hand-knotted in central Persia with a soft beige field that carries an all-over floral drawing from one end to the other. Scale is the first thing you notice. At just over 17 feet long it fills a formal room in a single piece, with no seam and no break in the pattern, and the weaver held the drawing in perfect mirror along both axes across that whole distance, which is far harder than it sounds on a loom this wide. The pile is fine wool on a cotton foundation, still full and even underfoot, and the ivory fringe at both ends is original and intact. Anyone shopping oversize Persian rugs at this length knows how few survive in this state. It ships with our certificate of authenticity.

Design and Motifs

There is no central medallion here. The field is a continuous all-over garden, built from large rounded palmettes, 8 and 12 petal rosettes, lotus heads and long serrated saz leaves, all linked by thin curling vines that never quite repeat the same way twice. Look closely at the detail photographs and you will find lancet leaves outlined with tiny pearl dots, small budded sprays that rise between the larger blooms, and paisley boteh forms tucked into the spaces where the vines cross. The drawing is strictly symmetrical top to bottom and side to side, so the eye reads order at room distance and variety up close. Framing it are 3 borders: a wide sage green main band carrying crimson centered rosettes and reversed palmettes on a swaying vine, flanked by 2 ivory guard borders with a lighter scrolling vine, and separating them a set of narrow ribbon stripes in red, gold and blue that act like piping on a tailored seam. The 4 corners are resolved cleanly, with the border pattern turning the angle without a stumble.

A Beige Field Cooled by Sage Green and Blue

The ground is a warm beige that shifts toward clean ivory where the light catches the wool, which is exactly what buyers want from beige and ivory rugs in a big room: it lifts the floor instead of darkening it. Against that ground the palette runs cool. Deep navy does the outlining and gives every flower its edge, while cornflower blue and a paler sky blue fill the petals and leaves, so the field reads blue on cream from across the room. The main border is a muted sage celadon green, soft and slightly dusty, which is an uncommon and very desirable Kashan border color and the single feature that gives this rug its character. Warm tones are used as punctuation rather than mass: saffron gold in the leaf tips, copper rust in the vine scrolls, crimson red at the heart of the border rosettes, a quiet olive green in the foliage, and here and there a blush pink petal. Nothing shouts, and no dye has run or faded, so the contrast between border and field is still crisp.

Kashan, Central Persia, and the Weave

Kashan sits in central Persia, north of Isfahan, and its looms descend directly from the Safavid court workshop tradition. The town built its name on soft lustrous local wool and on disciplined classical drawing, which is why Persian Kashan rugs became the default choice for formal rooms worldwide. When you watch Shark Tank there is a Persian Kashan on the floor. This piece shows the weave that earned that reputation: the reverse photograph reveals small, tightly packed, evenly ranked knots on a cotton warp and weft, with the design as legible on the back as on the front, which is the honest test of a workshop rug. A loom set up wide enough for a 12'3" width has to be built and beaten with real discipline, and the fact that the width holds true over 17'2" tells you experienced hands worked it. The pile has depth left, the sides are firmly overcast and the ends are secure, so this rug goes down and stays down for generations.