6'6" x 9'10" Persian Tabriz Rug | Pastel Cream & Light Blue Floral Medallion | 2000s

This is a quiet rug, and that is exactly the point. Woven in the 2000s and measuring 6'6" x 9'10", it carries a full classical Tabriz drawing, a central medallion, corner spandrels and a scrolling triple border, but the whole composition is executed in pastels rather than the usual red and navy. The pile is hand-knotted wool on a cotton foundation, clipped low enough that the fine vine work in the field stays legible from standing height, and the ends finish in clean ivory fringe with no restoration. In this popular 7x10 Persian rug size it sits comfortably under a sofa group or a full dining set. Condition is perfect and every rug we ship carries its certificate of authenticity.

Design and Motifs

At the center sits a rounded 8 petal rosette medallion, outlined twice and filled with small palmettes and curling leaf forms, finished top and bottom with a pendant. The field around it is not left open: it runs with a dense curvilinear lattice of scrolling vines, split arabesque leaves, budded rosettes and shaded palmettes, all drawn with the flowing curved line that separates true workshop drawing from village work. The 4 corners carry matching spandrels that repeat the medallion vocabulary in miniature, so the eye reads a balanced axis in every direction. Three borders frame the field: a wide main band of large rosettes linked by heavy vine scrolls, flanked by narrow guard stripes of small repeating flowerheads. The whole layout is symmetrical and formal, which is what lets such a soft palette hold its structure instead of dissolving.

A Pastel Palette of Cream, Light Blue and Pale Peach

Cream is the main color, an unbleached ivory ground with a faint warmth to it rather than a cold white. Every drawn line is worked in a powdery light blue, closer to a soft sky than to indigo, and that blue is the only real contrast in the rug: it outlines the medallion, the vines, the rosette centers and the guard stripes. Beige and pale peach fill the middle ground, warming the main border and the spandrels and giving the field its faint blush where the light catches the wool. Small touches of sage green appear in the leaf forms. There is no black, no burgundy and no strong saturation anywhere, which makes it an easy fit beside oak, walnut, linen and gray stone, and a natural choice for buyers browsing beige and ivory Persian rugs.

Tabriz Weaving in Northwest Persia

Tabriz sits in the northwest of Persia and has been the country's most organized weaving city for centuries, working from full cartoons on vertical looms and measuring fineness by the Raj, the number of knots counted across one gereh of about 2.75 in of width. That workshop system is what you are looking at here: the curve of the medallion outline never breaks into steps, the vine scrolls in the border repeat cleanly around all 4 sides, and the pattern resolves properly into the corners instead of being cut off. The wool is tightly packed on a cotton foundation and clipped short, which is standard Tabriz practice and the reason the drawing stays this crisp in a pastel palette where there is no strong color to hide behind. It is a straightforward piece of good city weaving, made for a room rather than a vault.