13'8" x 19'3" Persian Kashan Rug | Ivory Field, Sage Green Border | Signed Palace Size

At 13'8" x 19'3" this is true palace scale, one continuous hand-knotted piece big enough to carry a ballroom, a great room or a long formal dining hall with no seam and no join anywhere in the weave. The field is ivory and covered edge to edge in flowering vinework, the wide main border is a soft sage green, and a woven cartouche sits in that border at one end, which tells you a named workshop stood behind this loom rather than an anonymous village pair of hands. The wool carries the quiet sheen and close clip that Persian Kashan rugs are known for, the pile is full and even across all 260 square feet, and the sides and ends are straight and original. It ships with a certificate of authenticity, and it is the kind of piece that explains why genuinely clean oversize Persian rugs are the hardest category in the trade to keep in stock.

Design and Motifs

There is no central medallion here. The weaver committed instead to a full all-over composition, a lattice of scrolling vine that runs unbroken from one end of the 19'3" length to the other, hung with split palmettes, open rosettes, lotus heads, curling serrated leaves and small budded sprays. The drawing mirrors itself across both the long and short axes, so the pattern reads as ordered rather than busy, and the repeat is large enough that furniture placed across the field never crops the design awkwardly. The main border sets big alternating palmettes and rosettes on a continuous meander, and it is framed on both sides by narrow ivory guard stripes of linked flower heads, with a fine outer stripe again beyond those. Corner resolution in the border is clean, the vines turning properly instead of being cut, which is one of the quickest tells of a workshop piece at this size. The signature cartouche breaks the border rhythm at one end, outlined in rust against the green, exactly where a Kashan master would place it.

A Sage Green Border Against a Warm Ivory Field

The field is ivory with a warm, slightly creamed tone, the sort of ground that lifts a dark room without going stark white. Against it the vinework is drawn in muted sage and olive, sky blue, teal, and deep navy used mostly as outlining, with small hits of rust, terracotta, soft gold and pale rose inside the flower heads. Those warm accents are what stop a green and ivory rug from reading cold, and they give you something to pick up in upholstery or drapery. The wide main border is a dusty sage green, softer and more gray than the field greens, and the ivory guard stripes on either side of it act as a bright frame that separates border from field cleanly. The whole palette is low contrast and easy to live with, and the wool takes light differently along its length, so the field shifts between cream and pale honey depending on where you stand and how the room is lit.

Kashan: Central Persia's Workshop Town

Kashan sits in central Persia north of Isfahan and has been weaving at court standard since the Safavid era, which is why the town's name still functions as a quality grade rather than just a place. When you watch Shark Tank there is a Persian Kashan on the floor. The local tradition is soft lustrous wool, a tightly spun cotton warp and weft, and a fine symmetrical knot laid down on an upright loom, and all three are visible here: the back shows a small, regular, well packed knot across the width, the fringe is the original warp ends tied off by hand, and the pile has been clipped low enough that the fine vine drawing stays crisp. Weaving a rug 13'8" wide takes a loom built for the job and several weavers working the same row for years, with the design read from the same cartoon so the knot count and the drawing never drift. That is workshop production, and the signed cartouche in the border is the weaver putting his name to it.