6'7" x 9'10" Tabriz Mahi Design Rug | Burgundy Herati Fish Field | Wool & Silk Pile, Brand New

This is a brand new, never used hand-knotted rug woven in India in the classic Tabriz Mahi design, measuring 6'7" x 9'10" with a wool and silk pile on a cotton foundation. The drawing is tight and disciplined: thousands of small herati diamonds march across a deep burgundy field, and a scalloped ivory medallion with matching pendants floats dead center. Silk is used sparingly and intelligently, catching light on the medallion outline, the corner brackets and the paler floral heads, so the rug shifts tone as you walk around it. It is a genuinely hard size to fill well, and a 7x10 in this pattern sits comfortably under a dining table or anchors a seating group without crowding it. Every rug we ship carries a certificate of authenticity documenting the weave, materials and dimensions.

Design and Motifs

Mahi means fish, and the name comes from the herati unit repeated across this field: a small rosette inside a diamond, flanked by 4 curved leaves that read as fish circling a pond. Here the repeat is drawn at a very small scale, which is the whole point of the pattern and the reason it only works at a high knot count. At the center sits a scalloped ivory medallion with a dark inner rosette cluster, finished top and bottom with matching lobed pendants and a fine outlined tracery. The 4 corner spandrels answer the medallion in soft salmon and olive, each one edged with a scalloped line that curls back into the field. The border system runs 7 bands deep: a wide ivory main border of palmettes, rosettes and serrated leaves joined by red vine work, framed by olive and camel guard stripes and narrow reciprocal edging. Nothing in the layout is improvised, and the corners resolve cleanly, which is the first thing to check on a pattern this repetitive.

Burgundy, Ivory and Olive in Detail

The field is a rich ruby burgundy that deepens toward black-aubergine in the shadows and warms toward wine under direct light. Against it, each herati element is picked out in a different accent: ivory rosettes, black diamond outlines, olive and forest green leaf tips, slate blue fillers and small touches of salmon and camel. That accent mix is what keeps a dark field from reading flat. The medallion and spandrels bring the palette up to cream and ivory, with a pale sage outline separating them from the burgundy ground. The main border is a clean ivory, carrying brick red palmettes, sage green rosettes and soft brown vine, with a camel and olive guard stripe on either side and a burgundy outer edge that ties back to the field. The selvage is bound in the same deep burgundy and the fringe is natural cream.

Woven in India to Workshop Standard

India is where most of the world's best contemporary hand-knotted work is now produced, and this piece is a good illustration of why. It is a workshop weave: even rows, a compact knot, well-controlled curvature in the medallion outline, and a low even clip that lets the small herati units stay legible instead of blurring. The wool has a healthy sheen and the silk accents are placed rather than scattered, a discipline you see in the better ateliers. Because it is woven in India rather than northwest Persia, you get the Tabriz Mahi drawing at a far more accessible price, which is exactly the argument a buyer weighing an Oriental rug against a Persian one should hear plainly. If you are shopping the format, our full range of 7x10 hand-knotted rugs shows how this one compares on drawing and density.