6'1" x 9'10" Sino Tabriz Rug | Burgundy Red Floral Medallion | Fine Wool Pile, Brand New

This is a hand-knotted Sino Tabriz measuring 6'1" x 9'10", woven in China to the classical Tabriz drawing and finished with a dense 3/8" wool pile on a cotton foundation. It has never been on a floor: the pile stands up sharp, the selvedges are tight, and the ivory fringe is full and untrimmed at both ends. As a hand-knotted Oriental rug, it uses the same knot-by-knot construction as its city-woven models, and if you want the distinction spelled out, our guide on the difference between Persian and Oriental rugs covers it plainly. Every rug we sell ships with a certificate of authenticity confirming that it is genuinely hand-knotted, along with its measurements, materials and origin.

Design and Motifs

The layout is the classic Tabriz medallion formula, drawn entirely in curved line. A layered central medallion sits on the long axis, built from an 8 petal rosette core ringed by black lobes, cream palmettes and small pendant finials at top and bottom. Around it the burgundy field is filled edge to edge with a fine tendril network: scrolling vines, split acanthus leaves that curl back on themselves, rosebuds, and tiny blossoms in blue and green worked at a scale that stays legible only because the knot count supports it. The 4 corners carry large wheat-toned spandrels filled with their own vine and rose drawing, so the field reads as a framed cartouche rather than a plain rectangle. The main border is black, generously wide, and loaded with alternating roses, leaf sprays and turtle-like palmettes; it is flanked by sage green and wine guard bands and a sky blue running zigzag that keeps the whole frame from going heavy. A small ribbon and vase motif at the base of the field gives the rug a clear top and bottom.

Burgundy Red, Black and Wheat

The field is a deep burgundy red, closer to wine than to brick, and it darkens or lifts noticeably as you walk around the rug because of the way the pile lies. Against it the drawing is almost all pale: chalk ivory, cream and wheat brown carry the vines and the spandrels, with the wheat tone warming into a soft blush where the corner panels meet the field, which is a good fit alongside other red and burgundy rugs in a traditional room. The main border is a true black, and that black is what gives the piece its formality, holding the red in and making the rose heads inside it read as bright points. Secondary colors are used sparingly and with discipline: sage and celadon green in the guard stripes and leafwork, sky blue and cobalt in the small rosettes and the zigzag, dusty rose and mauve in the outer ribbon stripe, and a few gold-olive flower heads scattered through the border. Nothing is oversaturated, and the palette sits comfortably with walnut furniture, cream walls or a dark hardwood floor.

Woven in China in the Tabriz Tradition

Sino Tabriz weaving grew out of workshops that set out to reproduce the great city medallion designs at a high standard, and the better examples, like this one, are judged on exactly the same terms: how clean the curved line is, how tight the knotting stays through the field, and how well the wool takes the dye. Here the drawing holds its shape through the tightest parts of the medallion and the spandrel scrollwork, which is where a coarser weave falls apart first. The pile is a full 3/8", clipped level, soft to the hand and dense enough that the fold in the photographs stands up on its own. Knotted on a cotton warp and weft, the rug lies flat, keeps its rectangle, and is built for real traffic rather than display only. At 6'1" x 9'10" it fits a standard living room seating group, a modest dining table with chairs pulled back, or a large bedroom under the foot of the bed.