7' x 10'2" Signed Persian Rug | All-Over Rose and Wine Floral Field | Excellent Condition

A signed piece is a workshop piece, and this one wears its cartouche openly in the lower border, woven into the blue guard band where the weaver wanted it read. The field is a warm rose that shifts toward wine and salmon depending on the light, covered edge to edge with a dense floral lattice in indigo, sky blue, ivory and black. The pile is close cropped 3/8" wool on a cotton foundation, the handle is firm without being stiff, and at 7' x 10'2" the proportions sit exactly where most rooms want them. Condition is excellent, with even pile across the field, intact selvedges and clean ivory fringe at both ends. Every rug we ship carries a certificate of authenticity confirming it is hand-knotted and Persian made.

Design and Motifs

There is no medallion here. This is a true all-over floral rug, built from repeating rows of palmettes, split leaves and multi petal rosettes carried on thin vine scrolls that never stop moving across the field. Look at the close-up and you can follow one stem from a rose colored palmette, through a curling serrated leaf, into an ivory star flower and back out again. Small boteh forms and tight flower heads fill the gaps so there is almost no open ground. The border system runs to 5 bands: a broad indigo main border of alternating rosettes and floral sprays, flanked by salmon and ivory guard stripes and a fine reciprocal outer band. At the base of the main border sits the signature cartouche in image 5, a script panel set into an arched medallion with flowering vases to either side, the traditional way a Persian workshop put its name on finished work.

A Rose and Wine Palette Against Deep Indigo

The dominant color is a rose red that leans toward old wine in the shadows and toward soft salmon where the light hits the clipped pile. That warm ground is what makes the blues work: the main border is a deep indigo, almost black at the corners, while the inner guard bands and many of the flower heads are a lighter sky blue that lifts the whole piece. Ivory appears in the star flowers, the outer reciprocal band and the leaf outlines, giving the drawing its definition, and small hits of olive gold, brown and true black sharpen the palmette centers. There is a gentle abrash through the field, a natural variation in the dye lot that reads as bands of slightly lighter and deeper rose, which is the mark of hand-dyed wool rather than a printed color. Against a wood floor the effect is warm and antique looking; against a pale floor the blues come forward.

Persian Origin and Weaving Quality

This rug was hand-knotted in Persia on a cotton warp and weft, with each knot tied by hand and beaten down row by row, which is why the back shows the crisp grid of nodes visible in the final photograph next to the ruler. The knot count is fine enough to carry the curved vine work and the tiny script of the cartouche without the drawing breaking up, which is the practical test of a workshop weave rather than a village one. A signature also gives you a starting point if you ever want to research the piece further; our guide on how to date an oriental rug walks through what cartouches, dyes and construction can tell you. Among 7 x 10 Persian rugs, a signed all-over floral in this condition is the kind of piece that gets bought once and kept.