6' x 11' Persian Kashan Rug | Pastel Ivory Field with Light Blue Florals | Perfect Condition

This 6' x 11' rug takes one of the oldest formulas in Persian weaving and plays it in a whisper. Knotted in the 2000's on a cotton foundation with a soft, lustrous wool pile, it swaps the deep red and navy of the classic Persian Kashan rug for an ivory ground drawn in powder blue and warmed with peach. From standing height the piece reads as a soft neutral; step closer and the full medallion, the pendants, the corner spandrels and the scrolling border all come forward. The long 6 by 11 proportion suits a narrow sitting room or a bedroom where a 9x12 would swallow the floor. Condition is perfect, with full pile, straight sides and clean ivory fringe at both ends, and the rug ships with a certificate of authenticity.

Design and Motifs

The center holds a lobed medallion filled with a small 8 petal rosette and a ring of hooked leaves, with slender pendants reaching along the long axis toward each end. Around it the field is worked as a continuous floral lattice rather than an empty ground: palmettes, open roses, tulip heads, serrated lancet leaves and thin curling vines cover the ivory from selvage to selvage, each element outlined in blue so the drawing stays legible against the pale field. The 4 corners carry matching spandrels in the same vocabulary, which frames the medallion without hardening the composition. The main border runs a wide scroll of split palmettes and cupped flowers set on a reversing vine, flanked on both sides by narrow guard stripes of running rosettes and a fine outer meander. Every curve is genuinely curvilinear, which is the mark of a cartoon drawn in the workshop tradition rather than counted out from memory.

A Pastel Palette of Ivory, Peach and Light Blue

The ground is an ivory that shifts between cream and a faint oatmeal depending on the light, and against it the weaver used two blues: a soft powder blue for the vines, leaf spines and outlines, and a slightly deeper slate blue reserved for the medallion core, the larger palmettes and the border scroll. Peach and pale apricot appear as filler inside flower heads and through the spandrels, which is what keeps the rug warm instead of cold, and there are quiet notes of sage and pale gray-green in the leaves. Because the contrast between motif and ground is low, the pattern behaves like texture from a distance, an effect buyers of ivory and beige Persian rugs look for when the room already has strong furniture or art. The wool takes light well, so the pile reads slightly lighter when viewed from one end and a shade deeper from the other.

Kashan Weaving and Quality

Kashan sits in central Persia, north of Isfahan, and its looms trace back to the Safavid court workshops that set the standard for curvilinear floral design. Local wool is soft and lustrous, and Kashan weavers build on a tight cotton foundation with an asymmetrical knot that lets a drawn line curve cleanly instead of stepping. That is exactly what you see here in the medallion outline and the border vine. The weave is even across all 11 feet of length, the selvages are firmly overcast and the back shows regular, disciplined knot rows. Kashan is also the most recognizable Persian design in America: when you watch Shark Tank there is a Persian Kashan on the floor, which is why the layout feels familiar even to buyers who have never shopped a handmade rug before. This example simply states it in pastel rather than in red.