5'10" x 9'8" Persian Tabriz Rug | Ivory Bird and Deer Field | 400 KPSI Wool and Silk

This is a 1980's Tabriz that was woven, rolled and kept, and it has never spent a day on a floor. Measuring 5'10" x 9'8", it sits right in the range shoppers look for when they search 6x9 Persian rugs, and the pile still stands upright with the dry, silky handle of unused wool. The weave carries silk through the highlights, which is why the rust tendrils and teal florets catch light differently from the wool ground around them. At approximately 400 knots per square inch the drawing stays crisp at the scale of a single bird's tail feather. Every rug we sell ships with a certificate of authenticity that records origin, materials, knot count and measurements.

Design and Motifs

The center holds a layered floral medallion built around an 8 petal rosette, ringed by mahogany and olive lobes with serrated sickle leaves reaching out at the 4 points. Long pendant cartouches run above and below it, and heavy camel and red corner spandrels anchor the 4 corners. What lifts this piece above a standard medallion Tabriz is the field: the ivory ground is filled edge to edge with a fine vine scroll that shelters pheasants, songbirds, a leaping deer and small grey animals tucked between the palmettes, all drawn small enough that you find new ones each time you look. The main border repeats paired birds facing a gold palmette on a green ground, framed by mauve guard stripes of alternating rosettes and leaf tips.

Ivory Field, Sage Green Border and Jewel Tone Accents

The field is a warm ivory with a faint cream to honey shift where the light moves, not a cold white, so it reads soft against oak or walnut flooring. The main border is a muted sage green with a slightly grey cast, cooled further by the mauve brown guard bands on either side. Against those two calm grounds the palette is deliberately jewel toned: brick red and deep rose in the palmettes, teal and sky blue in the flower centers, mustard and old gold in the leaf outlines, forest green in the vines, and a dark aubergine that functions almost as an outline color. The spandrels and the pendant panels use a camel gold that bridges the ivory and the green, and the medallion core pulls in chestnut brown with a turquoise star at the very center.

Tabriz Weaving and the 400 KPSI Standard

Tabriz, in the far northwest of Persia, measures fineness in Raj, the number of knots counted across a gereh of about 2.75 inches. 40 Raj is ordinary commercial work and 50 Raj is already fine; this rug weaves at roughly 60 Raj, about 400 knots per square inch, the level where a workshop can draw a bird's beak or a deer's leg in three or four knots and have it still read correctly. The foundation is cotton, tight and flat, which is what keeps a rug this fine lying true, and the pile mixes wool with silk so the accent colors sit slightly higher in sheen than the ground. Photograph 16 shows the reverse: the knot nodes are small, even and legible, the same design visible front and back.