6'1" x 9'4" Persian Tabriz Rug | Cream Wool & Silk All-Over Floral | 400 KPSI, Never Used

This is a fine city weave in a practical room size: 6'1" x 9'4", hand-knotted in wool with silk worked into the highlights over a cotton foundation, at roughly 400 knots per square inch (60 Raj). The pile has never been walked on, the ends and sides are original and tight, and the colors are exactly as they came off the loom. At that knot count the drawing stays crisp enough to read every vine and every outline from standing height, which is the whole point of a good Tabriz. Silk catches the light along the medallion and the leaf forms, so the field shifts slightly as you move around it. Every rug we sell ships with a certificate of authenticity stating origin, materials and knot count.

Design and Motifs

The layout is a classic Tabriz workshop composition: a small terracotta rosette medallion at the center, tightly outlined in navy and filled with curling arabesque, sitting inside a radiating ring of boteh leaves and 8 petal flowerheads that spin outward from it like a starburst. From there the drawing opens into a true all-over floral design, with thin scrolling vines linking palmettes, cypress sprays, serrated leaves and paired boteh across the whole field. Two slender vase forms sit on the vertical axis above and below the medallion, each holding a small bouquet, a detail lifted straight from the Safavid vase carpets. The main border is a green ground carrying alternating terracotta cartouches and cruciform palmettes, framed on both sides by ivory and brown guard stripes with a running vine. Corners resolve cleanly, which is the mark of a drawn cartoon rather than a copied one, and the field pattern mirrors on both axes without ever repeating mechanically.

Color: Cream Ground, Sea Green Border, Terracotta Accents

The field is cream, closer to unbleached ivory than white, with a faint buttery warmth that keeps it from looking cold against oak or walnut floors. Against it the palette is deliberately restrained. The listed green reads as a soft sea green, almost a dusty teal, and it does the heavy lifting: it fills the main border and repeats through the small leaf forms and flower centers so the border and field talk to each other. The listed red is a muted terracotta, more brick and salmon than true scarlet, and it appears in the medallion, the border cartouches and scattered flowerheads. Brown and beige carry the vine work and the outer guard stripes, while black is used sparingly as a fine outline around the boteh and palmettes, which is what gives each motif its definition at a distance. Silk highlights sit mostly in the pale cream and green passages, so those areas flash lighter as the light moves. Overall it is a quiet, formal colorway that works in a room with cream, sage, camel or soft blue upholstery.

Tabriz Weaving and the Raj Count

Tabriz, in the far northwest of Persia, has been the commercial and technical capital of Persian weaving for centuries, and its workshops grade their own work by Raj, the number of knots counted across a gereh of about 2.75 inches of width. 40 Raj is ordinary commercial work, 50 Raj is fine, and 60 Raj, roughly the 400 knots per square inch on this piece, is where a rug crosses into collector territory: the knots are small enough to carry a curved line, so the vines bend instead of stepping. Tabriz weavers work on a stout cotton foundation with a hook-ended knife, and the wool from the region takes dye deeply and wears hard, which is why a 60 Raj Tabriz is one of the few very fine rugs you can honestly put in a used room rather than hang on a wall. In this size it suits a seating area, a dining table or a large bedroom, and it belongs in the same conversation as other 6x9 Persian rugs a step above the usual village grade.