13'3" x 19'2" Persian Tabriz Rug | Ivory All-Over Floral Field | Oversize Palace Size

At 13'3" x 19'2" this is a genuine palace carpet, the kind of piece woven for a room that most rugs simply cannot cover. The ivory field carries an uninterrupted all-over floral system from end to end, with no central medallion to anchor the eye, so the drawing reads as one continuous garden across more than 250 square feet. The pile is fine wool with silk highlights catching the light in the palmettes and leaf tips, knotted on a cotton foundation, and the back shown against the ruler confirms a tight, even, finely drawn weave with straight edges and original selvedges. Condition is excellent, with full even pile and clean ivory fringe. Pieces in this footprint are hard to find in good ivory, and oversize buyers usually wait months for the right one. Every rug we sell ships with a certificate of authenticity, and this one belongs in our oversize Persian rugs group.

Design and Motifs

The field is a classical Tabriz all-over floral design, built on a lattice of thin vinescrolls that link large fan palmettes, rounded rosettes, curled saz leaves and small eight petal blossoms in strict mirrored repeat. Look at the close-up and you can follow how the drawing works: a big palmette sits on the vertical axis, a spoked rosette below it, then the pattern reflects left to right and repeats up the length of the rug, which is exactly why a design like this holds together over 19 feet without a medallion to carry it. The borders are equally ambitious, 5 bands in total, with a broad navy main border of alternating turtle palmettes and flowering stems, flanked by rust guard stripes of arched blossoms and narrow ivory minor stripes. Corners are resolved cleanly, a sign the cartoon was drawn for this exact size rather than stretched to fit.

The Color Palette: Ivory, Navy and Rust

The ground is a warm ivory, closer to unbleached cream than white, and it makes this rug far easier to live with than a red field of the same scale. Against it the weaver worked a full palette: deep indigo navy for the outlines, the main border and many of the palmette centers, rust and terracotta for the guard borders and the flame-like petal tips, soft slate and powder blue through the leaves, burgundy and oxblood in the smaller rosettes, and camel gold in the vine tracery. Because every motif is outlined in dark navy, the colors stay crisp instead of blurring together, and from standing height the rug reads as a calm ivory ground with a navy frame. Buyers shopping other ivory Persian rugs will find few in this footprint with this much surviving color range.

Tabriz: The Weaving City of Northwest Persia

Tabriz sits in Azerbaijan province in the northwest of Persia and has been the country's most important commercial weaving city for centuries, the place where court-quality curvilinear drawing was turned into a disciplined workshop craft. Tabriz weavers work from a full cartoon on a vertical loom, using a hooked knife rather than a bare hook, and they measure fineness in Raj, the number of knots per gereh across the width, where 40 Raj is commercial work and 60 Raj and above is collector territory. This rug sits in the fine end of that range: the back shows small, regular, tightly packed knots with no slack in the wefts, which is what allows the vine tracery to curve smoothly instead of stepping. Weaving a piece 19 feet long to that standard means years on the loom, which is why finely knotted Tabriz carpets in palace size have always been the most expensive thing the city produces.