4' x 7' Persian Tabriz Oval Rug | Ivory Field, Orange Floral Border | Wool and Silk Pile

Oval rugs are harder to weave than they look. The weaver has to shape the curve knot by knot while keeping the medallion centered and the border bands even all the way around, and a workshop only attempts it when the drawing is good enough to justify the extra work. This 4' x 7' piece is exactly that kind of commission: a fine wool and silk pile on a cotton foundation, woven in the Tabriz tradition of northwest Persia, with a short 1/4" clip that keeps every stem and petal legible. It has never been used, the pile is full and unwalked, and the ivory selvedges and fringe are still crisp. Like every rug we import, it ships with a certificate of authenticity. If you are shopping the wider selection of oval Persian rugs, this is one of the finer weaves in that shape.

Design and Motifs

The field is built around a single lobed medallion set dead center, its core filled with a small rosette and ringed by cusped outlines in rust, sage and ivory. A pendant crown rises from each end of the medallion toward the top and bottom of the oval, and from there the ivory ground opens into a loose, airy vine system: curling stems, 8 petal rosettes, tulip and carnation heads, feathered lanceolate leaves, and slender paisley boteh forms that hook back on themselves. Nothing is crowded. The drawing leaves plenty of open ivory between motifs, which is what makes the curvilinear line read so cleanly at this scale. Three border bands follow the oval perimeter: a wide main band carrying a meandering vine with alternating rosettes and split palmettes, framed inside and out by narrow ivory guard stripes of running scrollwork, with a thin sage line separating field from border.

Color Palette

The ground is a warm ivory, closer to soft cream than to white, and it carries a faint sheen where the silk accents sit in the pile. Against it the main border runs a soft orange that leans terracotta in the full view and reads closer to salmon rust in the close-up photographs, a tone that has clearly been drawn from madder rather than anything harsh. Inside the field the accent palette is quiet and varied: sky blue and a deeper cornflower in the palmettes and boteh, sage and olive green in the leaves and in the thin dividing line, salmon pink and coral in the smaller flower heads, brick red in the paisley outlines, and small touches of caramel and pale gold. The medallion pulls those same colors together in miniature, so the eye travels from the center out to the border without any abrupt jump in tone.

Tabriz Origin and Weaving Quality

Tabriz sits in northwest Persia and has been the country's most organized weaving city for centuries, working on a Raj system where fineness is counted across the width of the loom rather than guessed at. That workshop discipline is what a Tabriz buyer is really paying for: a cartoon drawn by a designer, a master weaver holding the line, and a finished rug where both halves of the field mirror each other properly. On an oval the discipline matters twice over, because the border has to narrow and widen in step as the curve turns, and here it does, with even bands all the way around and no bunching at the ends. The wool is tightly packed and finely spun, the silk is used sparingly as highlight rather than as filler, and the low clip lets the fine knotting show. Browse the full range of Persian Tabriz rugs to see how this one sits within the group.