7'2" x 10'10" Persian Sarough Mir Rug | All Over Boteh Design | Ivory Diamond Medallion, Excellent Condition

This is the classic Mir Sarouk formula, worked out at a room size that runs a little longer than the usual 7x10 Persian rug: a deep red field packed edge to edge with small boteh, one ivory diamond holding the center, and a wide ivory border of stylized boteh and vine to close it in. The handle is firm and the pile is wool on a cotton foundation, dense enough that the drawing stays crisp at this scale. Pile depth is even from end to end, the sides and ends are intact, and the rug grades out in excellent condition with no repairs or reweaves. Among Persian Sarough rugs, the boteh repeat Mirs are the pattern collectors come back for, because the field reads as one continuous texture rather than a set of motifs. It ships with our certificate of authenticity confirming it is hand-knotted wool pile woven in Persia.

Design and Motifs

The whole field is a single all over boteh repeat, with thousands of small pear shaped figures set in offset diagonal rows so the eye reads them as a lattice as much as a motif. Each boteh carries a curled tip and a tiny floral spray inside it, outlined in dark wool so the rows hold their definition even in the photographs taken from across the room. The field is cut back at 4 corners into a broad stepped octagon, which leaves generous ivory spandrels filled with upright stylized boteh and architectural vine. At the center sits a lobed ivory diamond medallion, drawn with its own inner boteh and scrolling tendrils rather than a floral rosette, a quieter solution than the big navy medallions of neighboring weaving towns. The main border runs a procession of large stylized boteh and palmette forms on ivory, flanked by narrow guard stripes of running X motifs, small diamonds and a reciprocal sawtooth that frames the field. Detail photo 6 shows how cleanly the border corners resolve, which is the test of a well drawn village cartoon.

Color: Madder Red Field with Ivory, Navy and Teal

The red field is a true madder tone that shifts between a cooler cherry red and a warmer rose depending on how the light hits the pile, the natural abrash you expect from wool dyed in small lots. The boteh themselves are picked out in ivory, cream, soft rose and pale slate blue with charcoal outlines, so from standing height the red reads as a textured surface rather than a flat ground. Against that, the spandrels and the main border are a warm ivory that has mellowed toward cream, carrying brick red, indigo navy and a distinctive teal green that appears again in the little diamond and sawtooth guard stripes. The center diamond is the lightest note in the rug, an ivory ground with rose and blue detail that lifts the middle of the field. The outer edge finishes in a solid band of red with ivory fringe at both ends. Photos 3 and 4 were shot under warmer warehouse lighting and read lighter and pinker than the rug actually is; photos 1 and 6 are the truer color.

Origin and Weave: Sarough, Central Persia

Sarough is a weaving village north of Arak in Markazi province, in the old Sultanabad weaving district of central Persia, and it built its name on heavy, tightly packed wool rugs meant to be used for generations. The boteh repeat seen here is the Mir pattern, named for the Mirabad and Saraband weaving in the same region, and Sarough weavers adopted it as one of their signature fields. The construction follows the regional recipe: cotton warp and weft, as visible on the back in the last photograph, with a thick wool pile knotted densely enough to give the rug real weight and a stiff, upholstered handle that lies flat without fighting the floor. Sarough wool is springy and takes madder and indigo well, which is why these fields keep their depth of color decades on. This one was woven on a single long run with no pattern drift, the field count holding true from one end of the 10'10" length to the other, and it remains in excellent, structurally sound condition.