6'4" x 9'8" Persian Nain Rug | Light Green Wool & Silk Floral Medallion | 2000s, Perfect Condition

A soft light green field is unusual in Nain weaving, where ivory and navy dominate almost everything the town produces, and that is the first thing you notice about this rug. It measures 6'4" x 9'8", it was woven in the 2000's, and the pile is wool with silk carried through the outlines and the finer details, so the drawing catches light differently as you walk around it. The pile is full and the rug has never been on a floor, which is why the condition reads perfect rather than merely excellent. Buyers who want to understand the town before they buy can read our guide to Persian Nain rugs. Every rug we ship travels with a certificate of authenticity that records the origin, the materials and the exact size.

Design and Motifs

The center holds a lobed medallion drawn in navy over a cream and gold ground, filled with interlaced arabesque scrollwork and finished with a small rosette at the exact middle. Above and below it sit matching pendants, and the medallion itself floats inside a large scalloped cartouche outline that ripples across the field in a single unbroken navy line. The field around it is an all-over vine system: thin curling stems, palmettes, small blossoms and paired leaf forms, with tiny cloud band and bird-like flourishes tucked into the open ground. Each of the 4 corners carries a raspberry and navy spandrel, and the ivory main border runs a repeat of 8 petal rosettes and palmettes joined by serpentine vine, framed by narrow guard stripes of tulip heads and a fine barber pole outer stripe. Every element is outlined, which is the detail that gives the drawing its crisp edge at this scale.

A Light Green Field With Navy, Ivory and Raspberry

The field is a pale celadon green, closer to mint than to sage, and it is held down by a deep navy that appears in the medallion outline, the spandrels and the vine tracery. Between those 2 extremes the palette stays quiet: cream and warm ivory in the medallion center and across the main border, a powdery sky blue in the leaves and guard stripes, walnut brown in the stems, and small raspberry red accents in the blossoms that give the whole surface its pulse. The silk sits in the outlines and in the lighter blossoms, so those areas sit brighter and slightly raised against the matte wool. It is a cool, pastel reading of a classic Persian medallion layout, which makes it far easier to place in a light-walled room than the usual red and navy formula.

Nain: Fine Weaving on the Edge of the Central Desert

Nain sits in central Persia, east of Isfahan on the rim of the desert, and the town built its reputation on fine woolen cloth long before it wove rugs. When that trade declined in the 20th century the same spinners and weavers turned to knotting, and they brought a cloth maker's standard of fineness with them, which is why a Nain is judged by the La count, the number of plies in the warp that governs how fine the knotting can be, the system explained in our guide to Nain 6 La and Habibian weaving. This piece shows the classic town construction: a cotton foundation, a low even clip, silk reserved for outlines and highlights, and a ruled close-up that confirms a tight, disciplined knot line across both the field and the border.