13'1" x 20' Persian Tabriz Rug | Ivory Field, Olive Medallion | 60 Raj, Approx. 400 KPSI

A rug of this footprint is a commission, not a stock item, and the weaver had to hold a single drawing steady across 240 inches of length without the pattern drifting. At 13'1" x 20", this Tabriz runs about 400 knots per square inch, 60 Raj on the Tabriz scale, which is a knot count normally reserved for pieces a quarter of this size. The wool is fine and low cut at 3/8", so the drawing reads sharply even standing over it, and the cotton foundation gives the rug the flat, obedient lay you want in a room this large. It sits squarely in the range of true oversize Persian rugs and ships with a certificate of authenticity documenting origin, materials and weave.

Design and Motifs

The composition is the classic Tabriz medallion layout, drawn in full curvilinear style. A large round olive medallion sits dead center, filled with scrolling arabesque vine, small rosettes and a crisp 8 petal flower at the core, with pointed pendants running off the top and bottom axis. Around it the ivory field is not empty for a single inch: a dense all-over system of palmettes, split leaves, serrated lancet leaves and thin flowering vine covers the ground, with large shield shaped cartouches and leaf forms floating symmetrically through the four quarters. The corner spandrels repeat the medallion vocabulary at a smaller scale so the eye reads the whole field as one drawing. The main border is a peach ground carrying alternating lobed medallions and quatrefoil panels, framed on both sides by narrow floral guard stripes and a fine reciprocal minor border. Look at the corners in the detail photograph: the border pattern turns cleanly and resolves without the pattern being crushed or stretched, which is the honest test of a designer and weaver working at this scale.

A Field of Ivory, Olive Green and Peach

The palette is deliberately quiet, which is rarer and more useful than it sounds in a rug this big. The ground is a warm ivory that shifts toward cream and soft camel depending on the light, and the fine wool takes a low sheen that keeps it from reading flat. The central medallion and the larger leaf cartouches are worked in a muted olive to sage green, the single strongest color statement in the rug and the reason the eye settles in the middle. The main border shifts to a dusty peach and salmon tone, warm enough to frame the ivory without competing with it, and the cartouches inside it are picked out in deeper green and ivory. Through the field the small flowerheads carry clear blue accents, with touches of rust, terracotta, soft rose and olive in the vine work, so the surface has real color variety at close range while reading as a calm ivory ground from across the room. The outer selvage and the end webbing finish in a gold ochre that ties the whole scheme together.

Tabriz Weaving and Quality

Tabriz sits in the northwest of Persia and has been the country's most organized weaving city for centuries, working from full-size cartoons drawn by named designers and executed by workshop weavers using the hook. Fineness there is counted in Raj, the number of knots across roughly 2.75 inches of width: 40 Raj is commercial work, 50 Raj is fine, and 60 Raj, the count here, is about 400 knots per square inch and squarely collector grade. That resolution is what allows the curved vine, the tiny rosettes and the outlined leaf edges to stay legible instead of turning into steps. Combine it with the short 3/8" clip and a tight cotton foundation and you get a rug that is dense underfoot, lies dead flat, and holds its geometry over 20 feet of length. In perfect condition, with full even pile and clean intact ends, this is the kind of Tabriz that gets bought once for a large formal room and never replaced.