7'7" x 11' Persian Heriz Rug | Rose Red Field, Navy Floral Border | Semi-Antique Village Weave

This is a proper village Heriz in the size most American rooms actually want, a true 7'7" x 11' that sits under a sofa group or a 6 seat table without crowding the walls. The wool has the slightly waxy, light catching handle that older Heriz pile develops, and the pile stands even from end to end with no low spots, no repiling and full, clean ivory fringe at both ends. It is hand-knotted on a cotton foundation with a wool pile, heavy enough to lie flat the day it comes out of the roll. Every rug we sell ships with a certificate of authenticity stating origin, materials and construction. If 8x11 is the footprint you are shopping, this one is worth comparing against the rest of our 8x11 Persian rugs.

Design and Motifs

The field carries a large stepped center medallion in deep navy, built out of squared shoulders and spearpoint finials, with an 8 petal rosette at its core surrounded by curling ivory leaves and four small floral cartouches set into the corners of the medallion frame. Above and below it, two crowned pendant palmettes reach into the field on long serrated vines. Ivory spandrels break the four corners with scrolling vinework and small architectural cartouches, the drawing noticeably more curvilinear than the blunt angular version of this geometric medallion design. The main border alternates rosettes, turtle palmettes and leafy cartouches, fenced by two rosette meander guards.

The Rose Red and Navy Palette

The field reads as a soft rose red with brick and terracotta passages, a gentle abrash that moves in horizontal bands and proves natural dye lots rather than a flat chemical wash. Against it the medallion and main border sit in a near black navy, dense enough to frame the field hard and make the ivory work jump forward. Secondary color comes in muted olive and sage greens, teal, salmon pink and dusty charcoal inside the palmettes and rosettes. The outer guard band runs a warm olive gold ground scattered with tiny ivory and rose rosettes, and the ivory corner spandrels keep the whole rug from reading dark.

Woven in the Heriz Villages of Northwest Persia

Heriz is a cluster of villages east of Tabriz, on the slopes below Mount Sabalan, where the mineral rich water and mountain pasture give the local sheep a famously tough, high lanolin fleece. That wool is the reason Heriz rugs outlast almost anything else on a floor. Weavers there work from memory rather than a full cartoon, knotting on a stout double wefted cotton foundation and beating the rows down hard, which is why village Heriz pieces are typically woven under 200 knots per square inch yet feel like armor underfoot. This example shows the finer, more floral end of that tradition, closer in drawing to the Tabriz workshops that supplied the region with designs.