8'4" x 8'4" Round Oriental Rug | Mahi Tabriz Design | Wool & Silk Pile | Brand New

Round rugs of this quality are uncommon, because drawing a medallion design into a true circle takes a cartoon made specifically for the shape and a weaver willing to shorten every row as the curve closes. This 8'4" x 8'4" round Oriental rug carries the Mahi Tabriz drawing across a deep black field, with a wool and silk pile that lifts the ivory medallion and the silk-touched highlights out of the dark ground as the light moves. It is brand new, never used, and it ships with a certificate of authenticity confirming that it is 100% hand-knotted.

Design and Motifs

The field is the classic Mahi, or fish, pattern: a fine diamond lattice, each compartment holding a small rosette flanked by curved lanceolate leaves, the pairing of leaf and blossom that gave the design its fish name. The repeat is tiny and perfectly regular, which is exactly where this pattern is judged, and it runs uninterrupted from the medallion out to the border on every radius of the circle. At the center sits a scalloped ivory medallion filled with its own miniature lattice, anchored by a dark inner cartouche and finished with 2 pointed pendants. Around the field runs a black main border of rust and ivory palmettes with curling leaves, framed by several narrow guard stripes in olive, ivory and light blue that follow the curve cleanly without breaking the rhythm of the drawing.

Color: Black Ground with Ivory, Rust and Olive Green

The ground is a true black, deep enough that the rug reads as a dark disc from across a room and only reveals its detail up close. Against it, the lattice is drawn in soft rust and terracotta, with blossoms in ivory and pale peach, small leaf forms in olive green, and scattered points of light blue and burgundy red that keep the field from going flat. The medallion is the brightest element: cream and ivory shading toward pale gold, worked with rust, olive and slate blue detail. The guard stripes bring in a muted sage and a chalky light blue, and the outer main border repeats the rust rosettes on black so the eye travels in and out of the design. Silk in the pile gives the lighter tones a sheen that shifts with the viewing angle, and the ivory fringe, hand braided all the way around the circle, finishes the edge crisply.

Origin and Weaving Quality

This rug was hand-knotted in India, which is where most of the world's best contemporary hand-knotted work is now produced, on looms that hold the Mahi cartoon at a knot count fine enough to keep the lattice sharp. The foundation is cotton, the pile is wool with silk highlights, and the handle is firm and even with a low, tight clip that shows the drawing rather than hiding it under long pile. Weaving a circle is the harder discipline: the border bands have to stay parallel as the diameter shrinks, and here they do, with no wobble in the guard stripes and no crowding where the pattern meets the edge. At 8'4" across it sits well under a round dining table or centered in a square foyer, and buyers comparing large round rugs will find few at this diameter with this level of detail.