6'7" x 10'2" Persian Kashan Rug | Signed Ivory Field | All-Over Floral Vinework

A signed weaver's cartouche sits in the border of this 6'7" x 10'2" Kashan, which tells you immediately that it left a named workshop rather than an anonymous loom. The rug is hand-knotted in wool on a cotton foundation, with a short 3/8" pile that keeps the drawing crisp, and it reads as one of the quieter, more elegant Persian Kashan rugs we carry: ivory rather than the usual red, with the whole field given over to flowering vine. At just over 6 by 10 feet it slots neatly into the 7 x 10 Persian rug footprint, and condition is excellent throughout, with even pile and clean, straight sides. Every rug we sell ships with a certificate of authenticity.

Design and Motifs

The medallion is deliberately small for a rug of this length: a lobed, pointed cartouche at the center, filled with tiny rosettes and lanceolate leaves, with matching pendants above and below. Rather than clearing the ground around it, the weaver let a dense all-over floral field run right up to and around the medallion, so the eye keeps traveling. Curling vines carry large palmettes, 8 petal rosettes, split leaves, tulips and small lotus heads, all drawn in a fluid curvilinear line and mirrored precisely on both axes. The corner spandrels are only lightly indicated, which is unusual and gives the field its open, wallpaper-like rhythm. The main border repeats an alternating palmette and serrated leaf on a pale ground, flanked by several narrow guard stripes of running vine and reciprocal dots, and one of those guard bands carries the woven signature cartouche in Persian script.

Ivory Ground, Blue Drawing and Olive Green Leaves

The field is a warm ivory, closer to oatmeal and undyed wool than to a bleached white, and it changes tone as the light moves across the pile. Against it the drawing is almost entirely blue, worked in at least 3 values: deep navy for palmette centers and outlines, a mid cornflower for the vine scroll, and a soft powder blue for petals and the inner medallion. Olive and sage green fill the serrated leaves and give the field its cooler, garden-like cast. Small touches of brick red and burgundy sit at the heart of the larger flowerheads, with occasional gold and pale peach, and fine brown outlining that holds every motif in place. The borders repeat the same palette at higher contrast, so the blue frame reads strongly from across a room while the interior stays light.

Kashan: Central Persia and the Workshop Weave

Kashan sits in central Persia, north of Isfahan, and its looms trace back to the Safavid court workshops that produced some of the most celebrated carpets ever woven. The city's advantages are its soft, lustrous local wool and a drawing tradition that insists on symmetry and a true curved line. This piece shows both: the knotting is tight and regular enough to render a palmette a couple of inches across without it turning blocky, and the pile has the quiet sheen Kashan wool is known for. The signed cartouche places it with a workshop weaver who expected the rug to be judged, which is why the field drawing holds up under close inspection rather than simplifying toward the ends. Kashan is also the most familiar Persian design in American homes: when you watch Shark Tank there is a Persian Kashan on the floor.