8'1" x 10'1" Sino Tabriz Rug | Ivory Floral Field, Navy Star Medallion | Wool and Silk

Laid flat, this 8'1" x 10'1" Sino Tabriz reads as a formal medallion rug in the grand manner: an ivory field packed edge to edge with curved floral vinework, a deep navy star medallion anchoring the center, and heavy navy corner spandrels that frame the whole composition. The pile is a wool and silk blend, and you see the silk rather than read about it, in the leaf tips, the vine scrolls and the tracery inside the medallion, which flash lighter or darker as you walk around the rug. It is brand new and has never been used, with full pile, clean cream fringe at both ends and crisp selvedges, and it ships with our certificate of authenticity. At 8x10 it covers the standard formal room footprint without crowding a seating group.

Design and Motifs

The center is a lobed star medallion with a small ivory rosette at its heart, ringed by a slate blue collar and then by dense arabesque scrollwork on a near-black ground. Points radiate out from it into the ivory field, and above and below the medallion sit pointed pendants that give the layout its vertical axis. The field itself is not empty ground with a few flowers dropped on it: it is a continuous system of thin curved vines carrying palmettes, serrated leaves, rosettes and small cluster blossoms, mirrored left to right and top to bottom so the drawing resolves cleanly at the medallion. The 4 corners carry large navy spandrels filled with the same arabesque vocabulary, so the eye reads a cartouche shape in ivory across the middle of the rug. Framing everything is a wide navy main border of alternating palmettes and flowering vine, set between narrow ivory guard bands of repeating small blossoms and a fine reciprocal outer stripe, the kind of layered border sequence that keeps a large floral field from spilling.

Ivory, Navy and Rose: How the Color Works

The ground is a warm ivory, closer to unbleached cream than to bright white, which is what lets the drawing sit quietly rather than shout. Against it the medallion, spandrels and main border are a black blue so dark that in the overhead photos it reads almost as ink, opening up to true navy where the light hits the pile directly. Between those 2 poles the palette is soft: dusty rose and salmon in the palmettes and rosettes, a faded brick red in the outer guard stripe, muted sage and gray green in the leaves and vine stems, and repeated touches of slate and powder blue in the smaller blossoms and around the medallion collar. There is no high contrast accent anywhere, and no harsh dye; the rose tones and the blue greens have been held at the same value, so the rug reads as a single ivory and navy statement from across the room and only separates into its many colors when you stand over it. It will sit comfortably with wood tones, off-white walls, navy upholstery and both warm and cool neutrals.

Made in China in the Tabriz Manner

Sino Tabriz is the trade name for exactly this kind of piece: hand-knotted in a Chinese workshop, but drawn and woven to the Tabriz classical formula of central star medallion, spandrels and an all over vine field. The workshops that took on this repertoire did it with full cartoons and experienced weavers, and the result is a curved line that stays true, medallion points that finish symmetrically, and a border that turns each corner without breaking the repeat. The back photograph with the ruler shows the story better than any adjective: a tight, even knot count on a cotton foundation, small enough nodes to carry the fine floral detail the design demands, with straight rows and no pulling. Wool carries the field and silk carries the highlights, which is why this weave holds more sheen than an all wool piece of the same drawing. If you are comparing this against Persian-woven medallion rugs, it is worth understanding what the label means before you shop, and our guide to what makes an Oriental rug different sets out the distinction plainly.