6'10" x 10'3" Persian Nain Rug | Ivory Field with Blue Floral Vinework | Wool and Silk, Never Used

At 6'10" x 10'3" this is the size most buyers actually need, a rug that fills a seating area without crowding it, and the drawing is the reason to own it: one round medallion floating on an ivory ground, with thin blue vines that travel the whole field and never lose their line. It was woven in the 2000's and has never been used. The pile still stands at full height, the ivory warps at both ends are original and untrimmed, and the silk outlines around the flowers still throw light exactly as they did on the loom, which you can see in the close-up of the center. The upper border carries a woven cartouche in Persian script, the mark of the workshop that made it. It ships with our certificate of authenticity, and if you want the background on how these pieces are built, our complete guide to Persian Nain rugs walks through the workshop system in detail.

Design and Motifs

The center is an 8 petal rosette set in a burgundy ring, ringed again by a band of small heart-shaped cloud motifs outlined in dark blue, then by a wider ring of the same hearts at double the scale, so the medallion reads as 3 concentric halos rather than a single flat disc. Out from there the field is pure vinework: slender stems that split, curl back on themselves and carry small palmettes, tulip buds, 5 petal blossoms and serrated leaves, all mirrored across both axes so the pattern is perfectly balanced top to bottom and side to side. The 4 corners hold quarter-sections of the same scrolling vine rather than solid spandrels, which keeps the field open. The main border is a broad ivory band of alternating palmettes and arabesque scrolls, held between 2 pairs of narrow guard stripes carrying a running blue meander. It is a formal, classical layout, drawn with the fine curved line that only a high knot count allows.

Ivory, Blue and a Touch of Burgundy

The ground is a warm eggshell ivory, not a bleached white, so it sits comfortably against oak floors and cream walls. The blues do the real work and come in at least 3 values: a near-black indigo for the vine outlines and the border drawing, a mid cornflower blue for the larger blossoms, and a pale powder blue used inside the medallion hearts and on the leaf tips. Burgundy is used with restraint, exactly as the specs state, a deep wine tone concentrated in the medallion ring and appearing elsewhere only as pinhead dots in the center of flowers, enough to warm the palette without pulling the eye away from the blue. Look closely and you will also find small accents of seafoam green and soft camel in the leaves and buds, and in the silk-highlighted areas the same color reads lighter or darker depending on where you stand. Overall it is a light, cool, bright rug that opens a room up rather than anchoring it in red.

Nain: Weaving Town and Weaving Quality

Nain sits on the desert edge of central Persia, a short drive east of Isfahan, and its weaving tradition grew directly out of that neighbor: the same curved, flowing drawing, but rendered in the ivory and blue palette the town made its own. Nain fineness is graded by La, the number of plies twisted into each knot, and the fewer the plies the finer the weave the workshop is attempting, with the highest grades treated as collector material and covered in our Nain 6 La and Habibian guide. This piece shows the hallmarks of good workshop production: a cotton foundation for stability, a tightly clipped low pile that keeps the small motifs legible, and silk used as outlining thread around individual flowers and inside the medallion rather than as whole blocks of color, which is the harder and more expensive way to do it. If you are comparing pieces at this scale, the other 7 x 10 Persian rugs in the collection give you a direct sense of where this one sits on drawing and condition.