13' x 16'3" Persian Tabriz Rug | Navy Floral Medallion | Never Used Oversize

This is a full palace piece: 13' x 16'3" of hand-knotted wool on a cotton foundation, woven in the 2000's and never laid in a home. The pile still stands at its original height, the ivory guard borders are clean edge to edge, and the fringe has never been walked on. Among oversize Persian rugs this scale is where a formal drawing usually falls apart, and it does not here: the vine work is drawn out to the last inch of the navy field and the corner spandrels resolve cleanly. Every rug we ship carries a certificate of authenticity identifying origin, materials and measurements.

Design and Motifs

The center holds an 8 point star medallion, ivory at the core with a small sea green rosette at the very middle, set into a brick red cartouche of layered palmettes and lotus heads. A serrated ivory outline steps outward from it, and pendants reach north and south into the field, each one a red shield filled with curling leaves. Around all of that the field is a continuous all-over vine: thin ivory stems that split, curl back on themselves and carry rosettes, tulips, feathered saz leaves and paired palmettes in mirrored symmetry down the long axis. The 4 corners carry matching red spandrels, so the medallion reads as one quartered pattern when the rug is seen whole. The main border is a coral rust ground with alternating large palmettes and dark cusped rosettes joined by scrolling vine, flanked by ivory guard stripes of sky blue lotus and rose blossoms, plus a narrow reciprocal minor stripe on either side. It is a classic curvilinear Tabriz drawing, disciplined rather than busy.

A Deep Navy Field Framed in Coral Rust

The field is a very dark indigo navy, close to black in low light and clearly blue when daylight crosses it, which is what gives every ivory stem and pale blue flower head such lift. Against it the palette runs warm: brick and tomato red in the medallion and spandrels, coral rust across the wide border, and a whole range of softer tones inside the flowers, sky blue, teal, rose pink, magenta, olive and sea green, camel, soft gold and cream. The ivory used for the outlining and the guard borders is a warm oatmeal rather than a bleached white, so nothing looks harsh. Because the design is drawn small and repeated, the color reads as a single rich navy and terracotta scheme from across a room, then breaks into dozens of individual shades when you stand over it. The wool has a natural sheen that shifts the navy lighter or deeper depending on which end of the rug you view it from.

Tabriz Weaving in Northwest Persia

Tabriz sits in the northwest corner of Persia and has been the country's workshop capital for centuries, the place where the cartoon-driven, fully curvilinear style of drawing was refined and where weavers still count fineness in Raj across the width. That workshop discipline is exactly what a rug this large demands: 13 feet of width means many weavers working the same row at the same time, and any drift in tension or color shows immediately across an open navy ground. Here the rows sit straight, the medallion is centered, and the two long sides carry the same border rhythm from end to end. The wool is dense, tightly packed and cut to a low even pile, which is why a rug of this size lies flat and holds its drawing rather than sagging into the field. It is workshop weaving at palace scale, and it has never been used.