6'11" x 10'5" Persian Kashan Rug | Unusual All-Over Ivory Floral Field | Fine Wool Pile

Most Kashans arrive in the house colors of central Persia, a deep red field under a navy medallion. This one does not, and that is the whole point of it. The weaver drew the standard persian kashan rug architecture, medallion, pendants, spandrels and a wide rosette border, then held the entire palette in ivory, cream and soft camel so the drawing reads as shadow rather than contrast. The result is a formal rug that behaves like a quiet one. At 6'11" x 10'5" it covers a standard seating group or a table for 8, and the pile is a low 3/8" of wool, dense and tightly clipped, which is why the fine vine work stays legible instead of blurring. Condition is excellent. It ships with a certificate of authenticity listing origin, materials and measurements, and it sits squarely in the most useful band of 7x10 Persian rugs.

Design and Motifs

The field carries a long, narrow medallion built entirely from small blossoms and curling leaf tips, closed at top and bottom by a crown of mustard gold arabesque scrollwork and a hanging pendant. Around it the ground is never left bare: thin stems travel in every direction carrying 5 and 8 petal rosettes, serrated acanthus leaves, tiny buds and curled tendrils, so the eye keeps finding pattern inside what looks at first glance like open cream. The 4 corner spandrels are drawn as large curved palmettes and split-leaf arabesques rather than hard blocks, which softens the outline of the field. The border system is unusually layered for a rug this size: a wide main band of connected rosettes, shell palmettes and leafy scroll, flanked by 2 pale guard bands and then narrow olive green meandering vine stripes that run as the outermost and innermost frames. Those green vines are the detail that pulls the whole composition together, and they repeat on all 4 sides without a break in the drawing.

The Ivory and Camel Color Palette

The field is ivory shading toward warm cream, with the medallion zone lifted a shade into light camel so it glows slightly under the pattern. Over that ground the florals are worked in taupe, dusty rose-brown, soft fawn and a pale grey-lilac that photographs almost silver in the corner detail. Mustard gold is used sparingly and deliberately, only on the medallion crown, the pendant scrolls and a few outlines, so it functions as the single warm accent. Scattered through the field are small navy blue blossoms and stems, no more than a handful per quadrant, and they do the work of a much stronger color because everything around them is so light. The main border runs a deeper taupe-brown on ivory, giving the rug just enough weight at the edge, and the olive green guard vines add the only cool note. This is a genuinely low-contrast rug, which makes it easy to live with next to oak, walnut, linen and limestone, and it belongs with the beige and ivory Persian rugs rather than the saturated classics.

Kashan Weaving and Quality

Kashan sits in central Persia, north of Isfahan, and its workshops trace back to the Safavid court tradition, which is why Kashan drawing is always curvilinear and always organized around a medallion and spandrel scheme. The town's reputation was built on soft, lustrous local wool and on cartoon work precise enough to carry fine floral detail, and Kashan became the single most recognizable Persian city design in American homes. When you watch Shark Tank there is a Persian Kashan on the floor. Here the weave is tight and even across the full 10'5" length, the knotting regular enough that the medallion stays symmetrical and the border repeat lands cleanly at each corner, which is workshop discipline rather than village improvisation. The back photograph shows that even, compact grid on a cotton ground, and the low clipped wool pile means the rug wears slowly and takes traffic without losing its drawing.