6'7" x 9'10" Mahi Tabriz Design Oriental Rug | Wool & Silk Herati Fish Pattern | Brand New

This is a brand new, never used hand-knotted rug measuring 6'7" x 9'10", woven in India in the Mahi Tabriz design with a wool and silk pile on a cotton foundation. It is a genuinely fine piece of work: the drawing is tight, the oval medallion is centered and symmetrical, and the silk accents catch light along the medallion and the inner guard stripes. India is where most of the world's best contemporary hand-knotted weaving is now done, and this rug is a clear example of that standard, with crisp outlines, flat even pile and a wool quality that will take decades of traffic. The 6'7" x 9'10" footprint sits right in the most useful range of 7x10 area rugs, large enough to anchor a sofa group yet easy to place. Every rug we ship, including this one, leaves with a certificate of authenticity confirming that it is hand-knotted, along with its size, materials and origin.

Design and Motifs

The design is Mahi, the famous fish pattern, built from an all-over Herati lattice of small diamonds, each holding a 4 petal blossom with curved leaves turned outward like fish around the rosette. That lattice runs edge to edge across the field and continues without a break under the medallion system, which is the mark of a well drawn Mahi. At the center sits a scalloped oval medallion with a layered inner cartouche and two small pendants on the long axis, framed by a cloud band outline that ripples across the field. The 4 corners carry matching quarter spandrels so the composition reads the same from either end. The main border is a wide band of 8 petal star rosettes alternating with shield shaped cartouches linked by a thin vine, flanked by narrow guard stripes of reciprocal sawtooth and small flowerheads. For an Oriental rug at this scale, the motif count per square foot is high and the repeat never drifts.

A Closer Look at the Colors

The field is a deep ruby red, closer to claret than to tomato, and it reads darker where the pile lies away from the light and warmer where the silk catches it. Inside the lattice the small blossoms are ivory, soft blue, rose pink and olive, with charcoal black outlining each diamond so the ruby ground stays legible rather than muddy. The medallion shifts the palette entirely: ivory and cream carry the ground there, shaded with camel, soft gold and olive green, and the silk highlights give the center a sheen that changes as you walk around the rug. Olive green does quiet structural work throughout, outlining the medallion scallops, the spandrels and the border cartouches, which keeps the red and ivory from reading as a hard contrast. The main border is ivory with rosettes in olive, brick, pale blue and rose, and the outer guard band picks up camel. The selvedge and the narrow outermost band are the same ruby red as the field, with clean undyed ivory fringe at both ends.

Origin and Weaving Quality

This rug was made in India, where workshop weaving has reached a level that now sets the standard for new hand-knotted production: trained weavers, careful loom tension and quality control on the dye lots. The Mahi Tabriz layout it follows comes from the Tabriz weaving tradition, where the fish lattice and scalloped oval medallion were refined into the formula copied worldwide, and the Indian workshops that specialize in it weave the pattern at a knot density fine enough to hold the small blossoms cleanly. You can see the evidence on the back and along the folded corner: tight, regular rows, square knotting with no pull at the ends, and a level pile with no uneven clipping. Mixing silk into the wool pile is a deliberate quality decision, used here for the medallion, the spandrel highlights and the guard stripes, so the shine appears exactly where the design needs lift. The wool is springy and dense, the cotton foundation keeps the rug flat and true to shape, and in perfect, never used condition this 6'7" x 9'10" piece is ready to go straight onto the floor.