8'1" x 9'9" Persian Tabriz Rug | Ivory Floral Medallion | Wool & Silk, Signed, Never Used

This is a workshop-grade Tabriz woven at roughly 400 knots per square inch, which puts it at 60 Raj, the point where a Tabriz stops being a floor covering and starts being a piece of drawing. The pile blends fine wool with silk, and you can see where the silk sits: in the pale vine scrolls, the small bud stems and the highlights around the medallion, all of which catch light differently as you walk past. The weaver signed the piece in a cartouche set into the upper border, which is something only a named atelier does. At 8'1" x 9'9" it sits squarely in the most useful room size there is, and it is unused, with full pile and a clean ivory fringe. Every rug we ship carries a certificate of authenticity, and if you are comparing pieces across the 8x10 Persian rug range, this one is at the fine end of it.

Design and Motifs

The center holds a lobed floral medallion built around an 8 petal rosette, layered outward through palmettes, small cypress-like leaf forms and paired serrated leaves, then closed with a scalloped outline and pendant finials top and bottom. Around it the ivory field is not empty for a moment: a continuous arabesque of thin vine runs corner to corner, carrying lotus heads, split palmettes, rosettes and tight buds in perfect mirror symmetry across both axes. The 4 corner spandrels are drawn as solid leaf-shaped panels filled with their own dense flowering, so the field reads as a framed garden rather than a loose scatter. The main border repeats a palmette and rosette rhythm linked by curling vine, flanked by narrow guard stripes of alternating blossoms. Curved line work like this is only possible at a high knot count, and the small detail photograph shows how cleanly the outlines resolve, down to single-knot stamens and the fine dark contour around each leaf.

Ivory, Peach and Sage Green Coloring

The field is a warm ivory that leans toward cream and light gold depending on the light, and it is the reason the rug feels bright rather than heavy. Against it, the corner spandrels are a muted sage to olive green, the same green that returns in the inner and outer guard stripes so the palette closes on itself. The main border is a soft peach, close to apricot, which is an unusual and quite elegant choice next to ivory, and it keeps the frame from going dark. Inside the drawing the accent colors do the work: dusty rose and brick red in the flower heads, small points of clear blue in the rosette centers, and cocoa brown in the vine contours and leaf tips. The medallion itself shifts between taupe, old rose and pale gold with a red core. Nothing here is loud, which makes it easy to place against wood, stone or a neutral wall.

Tabriz Weaving and Quality

Tabriz sits in the far northwest of Persia and has been the country's most disciplined weaving center for centuries, the place where the curved-line court style was kept alive and taught. Tabriz fineness is measured in Raj, the number of knots across a gereh of about 2.75 inches: 40 Raj is ordinary commercial work, 50 is genuinely fine, and 60 Raj, roughly 400 knots per square inch, is collector territory where only established workshops operate. That density is what allows the vine to curve smoothly instead of stepping, and it is visible on the back, where the knot rows are small, even and tightly packed on a cotton foundation. The wool and silk pile is dense and springy underfoot, the selvedges are firm, and the ends are finished with hand-tied cotton fringe. For a signed, unused piece at this weave, the condition is as good as it gets.