7'5" x 10'3" Persian Tabriz Rug | Faded Rust Medallion | 1970s Vintage Low Pile

Woven in the 1970s and hand-knotted in wool on a cotton foundation, this is the kind of vintage piece decorators hunt for and rarely find in a usable size. The field has softened to a faded rust and salmon that no chemical wash reproduces honestly, and the drawing stays crisp right through it: one large radiating medallion, ivory corner spandrels, and a camel brown border carrying rosettes and palmettes. At 7'5" x 10'3" it lands in the most useful footprint in the house, the same proportion buyers look for when they shop 7 x 10 Persian rugs, and it ships with our certificate of authenticity confirming it as a genuine hand-knotted Persian weave.

Design and Motifs

The center holds a large star medallion built in layers: a dark teal core ringed by a small 8 petal rosette, then a band of peach and gray lancet rays, then a broad frame of serrated palmette leaves that pushes out to 8 points. Long pendant finials run off the top and bottom of the medallion into the open field, where scattered leaf sprays, small vases and curling vine tips keep the ground from reading empty. The 4 corners carry generous ivory spandrels filled with big curled leaves and split palmettes outlined in deep teal, which is the detail that lifts this piece above ordinary village drawing. The main border runs on a camel brown ground with alternating rosettes and palmettes joined by a thin vine, flanked by narrow guard stripes and a dotted barber pole minor band that you can see clearly in the close-up of the folded edge.

A Faded Rust and Slate Palette

Color is the whole argument for this rug. The field sits between faded rust and warm terracotta, drifting toward salmon and dusty peach where the pile is lowest, so the ground shifts subtly as you walk around it rather than holding one flat tone. Against that, the medallion core and the leaf outlines are a deep teal that reads almost black in low light, while the border ground goes camel brown with olive undertones. The corner spandrels bring in ivory and cream, the guard stripes add slate gray and a grayed navy, and small sky blue and cobalt accents appear in the rosettes, visible in the corner detail photograph. Olive green and soft charcoal fill in the leaf work. The result is a muted, earthy range that works with white walls, wood floors and modern furniture without fighting anything in the room.

Tabriz Weaving in Northwest Persia

Tabriz sits in the northwest of Persia and has been the commercial heart of Persian weaving for centuries, known for disciplined cartoon-based drawing, tightly packed double wefted construction and wool that takes hard use. This piece is a classic workshop-grade Tabriz medallion of its period: the knot lines stay straight across 10 feet of length, the medallion is properly centered, and the back photograph shows a clean, regular knot grid with no lumps or sloppy joins. Weaves like this are what makes it possible to date an Oriental rug with confidence, since the palette, the cotton foundation and the drawing style all point squarely to the 1970s. The pile is low from decades of honest use, and a low pile on a Tabriz simply means the design reads like a printed map, flat, sharp and fully legible.