6'5" x 9'10" Persian Tabriz Rug | Wool & Silk Ivory Field | 400 KPSI Never Used

This 6'5" x 9'10" Tabriz came off the loom in the 2000's and has never been laid in a home. The pile still stands upright with the full luster wool and silk gives when it has never been walked on, and the salmon pink borders in the corner photo show no traffic lanes, no abrash drift and no fringe loss. At approximately 400 knots per square inch, 60 Raj in the Tabriz counting system, it belongs to the fine workshop grade rather than the commercial end of the town's output, which is why the drawing holds its curves cleanly even at the scale of a small rosette. The foundation is cotton, the pile is wool with silk carried through the outlines and highlights, and the ruler photo shows the back with the knot rows running tight and even. Every rug we sell ships with a certificate of authenticity that records origin, materials, knot count and measured size.

Design and Motifs

The layout is the classic Tabriz workshop formula: a lobed central medallion in deep brick red, a teal cartouche set inside it holding a small 8 petal rosette, and 4 corner spandrels in olive brown that echo the medallion's cusped outline. The ivory field between them is filled edge to edge with a fine flowering vine, thousands of separate blossoms, curling leaves and tulip sprays drawn on hair-thin stems, with a scalloped inner outline that traces the medallion and the spandrels so the ground reads as a cusped cartouche rather than a plain panel. Small pendant palmettes drop from the medallion at the top and bottom axis. The main border is a salmon pink ground carrying alternating floral bouquets and standing sprays, framed on both sides by a soft green guard stripe of rosettes and leaf scrolls, with narrow striped ribbon bands separating each element. Look at the close-up of the medallion and you can see how many colors sit inside a single 1 inch square, which is only possible at this knot count.

A Soft Ivory, Salmon and Green Palette

The field is a warm ivory, closer to cream than white, and it is what makes the rug feel light in a room despite the density of the pattern. Against it the vinework is drawn in cornflower and steel blue, deep navy, sage and pine green, dusty rose and coral pink, with small accents of saffron and chocolate brown. The medallion reads as a muted brick red, terracotta rather than fire engine, and its center panel shifts to a clear teal green that becomes the strongest single note in the rug. The spandrels are an olive brown that bridges the red of the medallion and the pink of the border. The main border is a soft salmon pink, the shade you see across the whole corner photo, cooled by the green guard stripes on either side so the frame never turns sweet. The overall effect is pastel and restrained rather than high contrast, and the silk highlights catch light differently as you walk past, so the blues and pinks appear to lift and settle depending on where you stand.

Woven in Tabriz, Northwest Persia

Tabriz sits in the northwest corner of Persia and has been the country's most organized weaving city for centuries, working from paper cartoons drawn by professional designers rather than from memory. Quality there is measured in Raj, the number of knots across a gereh of about 2.75 inches: 40 Raj is everyday commercial work, 50 is fine, and 60 Raj, roughly the 400 knots per square inch on this piece, is where collector-grade Tabriz begins. That density is what lets a weaver turn a true curve in a vine stem or fit a 4 color blossom into a space the width of a pencil, and it is the reason a fine Tabriz looks drawn rather than pixelated. Tabriz weavers also work on a taut cotton foundation with a firm beat-down, which gives this rug its flat, disciplined handle and dead straight sides after nearly 10 feet of length. Adding silk to a wool pile is a Tabriz workshop habit as well, used sparingly on outlines and highlights so the pattern gains sheen without losing the durability of good northwest Persian wool.