6' x 9' Persian Tabriz Rug | Cream Floral Medallion | Wool & Silk, Approx. 400 KPSI, Never Used

This 6' x 9' Persian Tabriz rug is a fine city weave that has never been on a floor. The pile is wool with silk worked through the highlights, knotted at roughly 400 knots per square inch on a cotton foundation, which is what allows the drawing to stay this crisp at a small scale. The back, shown against a ruler in the last photo, still carries its original importer tag marked 9-0 x 6-0, and the pile has the full, even height of a piece that went from the loom into storage. It reads as a formal rug without being heavy: a cream field, a soft brown medallion, and colors that sit close together in tone. A certificate of authenticity is included with every rug we ship. Among 6x9 Persian rugs, this is the fineness level buyers usually have to go up several thousand dollars to find.

Design and Motifs

The layout is the classic Tabriz combination of a lobed central medallion floating in a continuous floral field. At the center sits a green and salmon rosette ringed by a pale green cartouche, set inside a brown medallion with scrolling arabesque brackets at each of the 4 axes, finished top and bottom with slender pendants. Around it the cream ground carries an all over lattice of curling vine, palmettes, split leaves, carnations and small paisley boteh, each flower outlined in a darker shade so the shapes stay legible even in the close-up photograph. Corner spandrels in blue and gold repeat the medallion's floral language at 4 corners, giving the field a defined center without closing it in. The main border runs a brown ground with alternating rosettes and leafy vine, flanked by pale green guard stripes and fine minor bands of small blossoms, and the ivory outer selvage band frames the whole composition.

A Cream Field with Salmon, Green and Blue Accents

The main color is cream, a warm undyed ivory that takes light well and keeps the rug from feeling formal or dark. Against it the palette is unusually soft: salmon and dusty rose in the flower heads, sage and deep bottle green in the leaves, and a muted slate blue that appears in the corner spandrels and scattered through the vine work. The medallion and the main border share a taupe brown that ties the field to the frame, while beige and gold warm the spandrels and small touches of true red give the rosettes their focal points. Where the silk sits in the highlights the color shifts as you walk past, most visible in the green center of the medallion and the paler flower petals. This is a rug that works with warm woods and off-white walls, and the low contrast palette means it will not fight patterned upholstery.

Tabriz Weaving and the Quality of This Piece

Tabriz sits in northwest Persia and has been the country's most disciplined workshop city for centuries, working to the Raj system, where fineness is counted as knots per gereh across the width. At approximately 400 knots per square inch this piece belongs in the fine workshop tier rather than the commercial end of the market, and the difference shows in the curve of the vine, the clean outlining of every petal, and the tight, even handle of the back. Tabriz weavers work on a cotton foundation with a firm beat, which is why these rugs lie flat and hold their rectangular shape over decades of use. Add the silk highlights and the unused pile, and you have a wool and silk Persian rug that is still at the very beginning of its life.