8'4" x 11'11" Persian Kerman Rug | Pistachio Green Floral Field | Signed Cartouche

A pistachio green field is uncommon in a room size Persian piece, and it is what makes this 8'4" x 11'11" Kerman worth stopping for. The wool pile is clipped to 3/8", short enough that the drawing stays crisp and the ground color holds an even, silky sheen across the whole field. A weaver's cartouche is knotted into the upper border, which tells you this came off a named loom rather than an anonymous one, and the pile is full and even from selvage to selvage. Among large 8x12 Persian rugs this is the size that settles a full seating group without crowding the walls. Every rug we ship carries a certificate of authenticity.

Design and Motifs

The layout is the classic medallion and all over floral composition, drawn with a curved line rather than a village angle. At center sits a lobed 8 petal medallion built up in tiers: a small rosette core, a ring of ivory palmettes, then a scalloped outline finished with cypress-tip pendants top and bottom. The field around it is not empty filler. It carries a dense, symmetrical lattice of palmettes, serrated saz leaves, rosettes and thin arabesque vines that mirror across both axes, with small bird forms tucked into the scrollwork if you look closely at the detail photograph. Each of the 4 corners holds a squared spandrel with a geometric knot panel at its inner point, an unusual touch against so much curved drawing. The main border runs a continuous palmette and vine meander, framed by 3 guard stripes on either side, and the weaver's signature cartouche interrupts the inner guard at the top end.

A Pistachio Green Field Against Midnight Navy

The ground is a pale pistachio green, soft and slightly chalky, the kind of tone that keeps a large room feeling open instead of heavy. Against it the main border goes almost midnight navy, near black in the shaded photographs, and that contrast is what gives the rug its shape from across a room. The ornament is picked out in a narrow, disciplined palette: mustard gold on the medallion tracery and the thin dividing lines, clear sky blue in the smaller rosettes and leaf tips, ivory and cream for the outlines and guard stripes, and a soft salmon pink that appears mostly in the border blossoms and in the close detail of the signature panel. A few deeper indigo accents anchor the medallion core. It sits naturally with other green Persian rugs but is quieter and more silver-toned than most of them, which is exactly why it works with grey upholstery, walnut furniture and warm brass.

Kerman Weaving and Workshop Quality

Kerman sits in the southeast of Persia and has been a center of fine floral weaving for centuries, known for curvilinear cartoon work drawn by professional designers and executed by town weavers on cotton warps. That tradition shows here in the accuracy of the medallion, where the two halves match petal for petal, and in the way the vine scroll turns without breaking. The back photograph, shot against a ruler, shows a tight and regular knot line with no slack rows and no abrupt color breaks, evidence of a single skilled hand working steadily rather than a rug rushed to market. The 3/8" pile has been kept low so the fine drawing survives, and the wool still has the natural lanolin luster that Persian flocks give. A signed piece of this size, in this condition, is the sort of thing that gets handed down rather than replaced.