6'6" x 9'6" Persian Tabriz Rug | Semi-Antique All-Over Herati Lattice | Red Field with Navy Border

This is a semi-antique hand-knotted Persian Tabriz in a true room size, 6'6" x 9'6", with a raspberry red field carried edge to edge by a repeating floral lattice and framed by a deep navy border. It is wool pile on a cotton foundation, woven flat and square, with the dense, slightly compact handle that tells you the weaver beat the wefts down properly rather than rushing the job. The pile is even across the whole surface, the sides and ends are original, and the ivory cotton fringe is full. Sizes like this sit naturally in the 7x10 Persian rugs group, large enough to anchor a seating arrangement without crowding the walls. Every rug we ship leaves Freeport with a certificate of authenticity confirming the origin, the materials and that it was knotted entirely by hand.

Design and Motifs

There is no central medallion here. Instead the weaver drew a continuous diamond lattice in dark green and navy outline across the field, and filled it with alternating 8 petal rosettes, small stepped diamonds and pairs of curved leaves, a Herati-style repeat read in the Tabriz manner. Because the repeat never stops at the border, the pattern reads as a garden seen from above, which is exactly what all over rugs of this type are meant to do, and it makes furniture placement forgiving since there is no focal point to cover. The main navy border runs a broad vine with rose pink blossoms, forked palmettes and brown and gold leaves, turning cleanly at all 4 corners. Inside it sits a slim blue rosette stripe and a fine green sawtooth line that separates border from field, and outside it two ivory guard stripes carry a small flowerhead meander before the red outer selvage closes the composition.

The Color Palette in Detail

The field is a raspberry crimson with a faint cool cast to it, a dressier shade than the brick tones most buyers expect, and it belongs squarely with the better red and burgundy Persian rugs. Against that red the border is almost black indigo, which pushes the field forward and gives the rug real depth in a lit room. The accents are what keep it lively: chalky ivory and cream in the rosettes and leaf tips, soft salmon rose in the border blossoms, bottle green in the lattice lines and sawtooth stripe, and small flashes of bright teal and turquoise at the center of the flowerheads. Olive gold and a warm walnut brown fill the secondary leaves, with occasional dark navy blooms reading nearly black in the field. The wool has a light sheen, so the reds shift slightly as you walk around it and the ivories stay crisp rather than yellowed.

Tabriz Weaving and Quality

Tabriz sits in the northwest corner of Persia and has been the commercial and artistic center of Persian weaving for centuries, the city where fineness is measured in Raj, knots per gereh across the width, and where workshops compete on drawing as much as on knot count. This piece belongs to the solid everyday tradition of that city rather than the 60 Raj collector grade: a cotton warp, double wefting, a medium pile clipped level, and drawing precise enough to keep the lattice marching straight for the full 9'6" without wandering. The reverse photograph with the ruler shows the point clearly, tight regular rows of knots and a firm board-like back, the structure that lets a Tabriz like this take decades of traffic and still keep its pattern legible. For a semi-antique in excellent condition, that combination of local wool, disciplined weaving and a classic Persian Tabriz rug palette is what makes it worth owning rather than simply using.