7' x 10' Persian Tabriz Rug | Wool & Silk Floral Medallion | 60 Raj, Approx. 400 KPSI, Never Used

This is a new Tabriz that has never been walked on, still carrying the crisp pile and unbroken fringe of a piece straight from the workshop. The weave is wool with silk worked into the medallion, the spandrel scrolls and the finer flower heads, so the drawing catches light in two different ways as you move around it. On a cotton foundation at roughly 400 knots per square inch, the knot is small enough to hold a curved vine without breaking it into steps. At 7' x 10' it sits in the most useful range of 7 x 10 Persian rugs, large enough to carry a seating group and still light enough to move. Every rug we sell ships with a certificate of authenticity confirming origin, materials and hand-knotted construction.

Design and Motifs

The center holds a many lobed star medallion built from seafoam green cartouches and navy arabesque brackets, with a small 8 petal rosette in apricot and ivory at the exact middle. Above and below it, slim pendant finials run out toward the ends, each one tipped with a tiny palmette. The open red field is never actually empty: thin vine scrolls travel the whole surface carrying rosettes, split palmettes, serrated ivory leaves and small clusters of blossom, all drawn in mirror symmetry along both axes. The 4 corners are filled with ivory spandrels whose cloudband scrolls turn into copper and apricot leaf forms, a signature move of the better Tabriz cartoons. The main navy border alternates large palmettes with rosettes and curling leaves, framed inside and out by seafoam guard stripes of repeating buds and a narrow blue arrowhead stripe that tightens the whole composition.

A Deep Red Field Framed in Navy, Ivory and Seafoam

The field reads as a deep red with a slight raspberry warmth rather than a hard fire engine tone, which keeps it easy to live with under both daylight and lamplight. Against it, the border is a near black navy that gives the rug its frame and its weight. The relief comes from ivory: the spandrels, the leaf outlines and dozens of small flower heads scattered through the field, all of which keep the red from reading heavy. Seafoam green does the quiet work, appearing in the medallion cartouches, the two guard bands and the small leaves throughout, and it is the color that ties this rug to sage, celadon and blue green upholstery. Apricot and copper accents in the spandrels and the medallion core add a warm metallic note, while sky blue and soft rose touches appear in the smallest flowers. The silk sits mainly in the light tones, so the ivory and green lift and shine while the red stays matte and deep.

Tabriz Weaving and the 60 Raj Standard

Tabriz in northwest Persia has been the country's design capital for centuries, the city where cartoons are drawn and where the Raj system measures fineness: the count of knots across a gereh, about 2.75 in, of the width. 40 Raj is commercial work, 50 Raj is fine, and 60 Raj, roughly 400 knots per square inch, is where a workshop can draw a true curved line, taper a vine and keep a rosette round instead of faceted. That is the level this piece was woven at, and you can see it in the medallion brackets and in the way the spandrel scrolls stay smooth through every turn. The pile is clipped low so the drawing stays legible, the selvages are tight, and the back shows an even, disciplined knot from end to end. Among Persian Tabriz rugs, this combination of unused condition, wool and silk pile and a classic medallion cartoon is the practical sweet spot for a formal room.