8'1" x 11' Persian Tabriz Rug | All-Over Navy Boteh and Rosette Lattice | Perfect Condition, 2000s

A hand-knotted Persian Tabriz from the 2000s, this 8'1" x 11' room-size piece carries a deep navy field covered edge to edge in an ivory vine lattice, with madder red rosettes and ivory boteh set inside every compartment. The wool pile is full and even, the selvedges are tight, and the ivory fringe is clean and original, exactly what you expect from a rug that has been kept flat and unused. It sits squarely in the most useful of all room sizes, which is why buyers searching 8 x 11 Persian rugs tend to come back to a drawing this disciplined. Every rug we ship leaves Freeport with a certificate of authenticity naming origin, materials and construction.

Design and Motifs

There is no central medallion here. Instead the weaver ran an all-over design across the whole field: a repeating ivory vine that curls into ogival compartments, each one holding either a paired ivory boteh, an 8 petal rosette in madder red, or a small upright flowering plant with blue and green leafage. Count across the field and the repeat resolves cleanly in both directions, which is the tell of a cartoon drawn by a workshop designer rather than improvised at the loom. The main border is a red ground carrying a march of ivory boteh alternating with small blue palmettes, framed on both sides by ivory guard stripes of serrated leaf and vine, then a final narrow reciprocal line at the very edge. Corners are resolved properly, with the border pattern turning rather than being cut, and the 4 corners match each other.

The Color: Midnight Navy, Madder Red and Ivory

The field reads as a true midnight navy, dark enough to look almost black in low light and opening into a clear ink blue under daylight, which is what gives this rug its weight among navy blue Persian rugs. Against it, the ivory vine network glows and does the structural work, holding the whole field together visually. The reds are the more interesting story: a cool madder red in the border, a slightly deeper brick red in the field rosettes, and small touches of oxblood inside the boteh, so the red never flattens into one note. Scattered through the compartments are sky blue and steel blue leaves, a soft sage and bottle green, faint apricot, and pinpoints of saffron yellow at flower centers. Those minor colors are what keep the close-up alive, and they are only visible when you are standing over the rug. The back shows the same palette in a lighter register, confirming clean unfaded dye throughout.

Tabriz Weaving and Quality

Tabriz sits in the northwest of Persia and has been the commercial and technical center of Persian weaving for well over a century. Its workshops work from full-scale cartoons and measure fineness in Raj, the number of knots per gereh of about 2.75 in across the width, a discipline that shows here in the straight vertical repeat and the even, unwavering outlines of the boteh. The weave is on a cotton foundation with a wool pile, the standard Tabriz build, clipped to a medium-low height so the drawing stays crisp and the rug lies flat without buckling. Turn the corner over and you see tight, regular knotting with no lazy lines and no abrash, plus firmly wrapped selvedges that will take real traffic. For a piece from the 2000s in perfect condition, that combination of workshop drawing and honest village-grade durability is the reason a rug like this outlives the room it is bought for.