7'10" x 10'9" Persian Heriz Rug | Ivory All-Over Angular Field | Excellent Condition

Ivory ground Heriz rugs are the uncommon ones. The villages east of Tabriz built their reputation on rust and brick red fields, so a piece like this, where the whole design is drawn across a creamy undyed wool ground, turns up far less often and reads much lighter on a floor. The weave is honest village work: a heavy cotton foundation, thick hand-spun wool pile, and drawing done from memory rather than from a full cartoon, which is why the two halves of the field echo each other without matching knot for knot. At 7'10" x 10'9" it sits squarely in one of the most useful room sizes, and buyers comparing 8x11 Persian rugs will find it covers a standard seating group without crowding the walls. Condition is excellent, with even pile across the field and complete borders on all 4 sides. Every rug we ship carries a certificate of authenticity.

Design and Motifs

This is an all-over design rather than a single framed medallion. Large stepped palmettes, hooked serrated leaves and angular blossoms march up the field in mirrored pairs, and at the center they converge into a broad stepped lozenge with a small rosette at its core, so the eye still finds an anchor without the rug committing to a formal medallion layout. Between the big forms the weaver filled every gap with small jagged vines, arrowheads, comb motifs and 8 petal rosettes, which is what gives the ivory ground its busy, hand-drawn energy in the close-up photographs. The main border runs on a deep navy ground with alternating turquoise and red rosettes joined by angular bracket forms, flanked by narrow red guard stripes carrying a running vine. Corners resolve cleanly at all 4 turns, a detail that separates a well-planned village piece from a rushed one, and the slight drift in the pattern from top to bottom is exactly the signature of a rug drawn by hand at the loom.

Ivory, Red, Blue and Olive Together

The field is a warm undyed ivory, closer to cream than to white, and it is that pale ground that makes the rest of the palette read so clearly. Across it run brick and cherry reds in the palmettes, a deep indigo navy in the border and in scattered leaf forms, and a soft olive green that appears in the larger serrated leaves and in several of the central rosettes. Lighter sky blue and turquoise accents lift the composition wherever the drawing gets dense, and there are quieter touches of rose, camel and soft brown in the smaller filler motifs, visible best in the detail shots. The navy border gives the ivory field a firm dark frame, so the rug holds its shape in a room instead of floating. Colors are dry and stable with no bleeding at the outlines, and the back photograph shows the same tones carried straight through the knot, which is the mark of good dyeing on hand-spun wool.

Heriz: The Villages East of Tabriz

Heriz is a cluster of weaving villages in northwest Persia, east of Tabriz on the slopes below Mount Sabalan. The mineral-rich water there is credited with the toughness of the local fleece, and that wool is the whole reason these rugs are bought: the pile is coarse, springy and extremely hard-wearing, which is why Heriz floors survive generations of family traffic. The drawing follows suit. Everything is angular, built from straight lines and stepped corners, because the village looms and the heavy cotton warps suit geometry rather than the flowing curved vine of a city workshop. Village Heriz weaving usually sits under 200 knots per square inch, and that is by design, not by shortcut: a heavier knot with more wool on the surface is what makes the rug last. Among geometric Persian rugs, the Heriz remains the practical choice, and this ivory example gives you that durability in a far lighter, less expected colorway.