6'8" x 9' Persian Heriz Rug | Rust Field, Sky Blue Medallion | Village Wool Weave

This 6'8" x 9' Persian Heriz is a village piece with more drawing in it than most rugs from the region ever attempt. The field is a warm brick rust, the wide main border a deep navy, and the whole composition pivots on a soft sky blue and ivory medallion at the center. The pile is 3/8" wool on a cotton foundation, still dense underfoot and evenly worn across the field, which is why it grades in excellent condition. It sits comfortably in the 6x9 footprint, a genuinely useful size that anchors a seating group or covers a dining table with chairs pulled out. Every rug we sell ships with a certificate of authenticity that records the origin, materials and hand-knotted construction of the exact piece you receive. See it in scale among our 6x9 Persian rugs.

Design and Motifs

The center holds an 8 petal rosette in ivory and sky blue, ringed by a gold outlined cartwheel of curling leaves, then stepped outward into navy anchor pendants top and bottom. Around it the field runs with angular palmettes, serrated leaves, small vases and cypress like sprays, all drawn in the straight-line vocabulary that village looms handle so well. The 4 corners carry navy spandrels filled with pink and ivory blossoms, each one clipped with a stepped outline rather than a curve. The main navy border alternates large rosettes with pointed palmette cartouches, framed by narrow gold guard stripes of running vine. It reads as a classic geometric medallion rug, but with an unusual amount of small floral incident packed between the larger forms.

Rust, Navy and the Sky Blue Center

Rust is the governing color, a brick to terracotta ground that shifts slightly across the field the way hand-dyed wool does. Against it the navy of the border and spandrels reads almost black in low light and resolves into true indigo where the sun hits it. The medallion breaks both with a pale sky blue that is the lightest note in the rug, lifted further by ivory outlining. Salmon pink appears throughout the leafwork and the border rosettes, and gold ochre traces nearly every outline, which is what keeps the rust and navy from collapsing into one another. Dark green and small touches of ivory and pale blue fill the remaining flowers, so the overall effect is warm and earthy with cool blue relief at the heart.

Heriz: The Villages East of Tabriz

Heriz is a cluster of weaving villages east of Tabriz, on the slopes below Mount Sabalan, where mineral-rich water and hard winters produce a wool famous for its toughness and its high lanolin sheen. Weavers there work from memory and simple looms rather than full cartoons, which is why the drawing stays angular and confident, with straight lines and stepped corners instead of the flowing curve of a workshop city rug. Village Heriz weaving usually sits below 200 knots per square inch, and the quality is measured in wool and dye rather than knot count. This example is finer and more detailed in its drawing than the typical village piece, with tighter border work and a medallion built from many small elements, which puts it at the better end of the tradition among Persian rugs from northwest Persia.