8'5" x 11'7" Persian Nain Rug | Signed Habibian Wool & Silk | 500 KPSI All Over Floral, Never Used

This 8'5" x 11'7" Persian Nain rug was woven in the 1980s and has never been put on a floor. The pile is wool with silk worked through the drawing, knotted on a cotton foundation at roughly 500 knots per square inch, and the top border carries a woven cartouche, the mark of a workshop piece rather than an anonymous commercial weave. At just under the footprint of the standard 9x12 Persian rugs most dining and living rooms are planned around, it covers a full seating group while keeping a clean reveal of floor at the walls. Every rug we ship leaves Freeport with a certificate of authenticity recording origin, materials, knot count and measurements.

Design and Motifs

There is no medallion here, which is the harder thing to draw. The field is a continuous all over lattice of hairline vine scroll that loops, splits and reconnects across the whole 11'7" length, hung with Shah Abbasi palmettes, small rosettes, lanceolate leaves and tightly drawn flowering vases. The repeat is mirrored on the long axis, so the pattern reads as one composition rather than a stamped tile, and the drawing stays crisp right into the corners where lesser weavers compress the design. Silk is used selectively, outlining the vines and filling flower centers and a few leaf tips so those elements lift out of the matte wool ground. The border system runs five deep: a wide ivory main band of palmettes and curling arabesque, a pair of salmon-beige guard stripes with small blossoms and bud sprays, and narrow indigo ribbon lines separating each register. The signature cartouche sits centered at the top of the outer guard.

Ivory Ground with Gray, Burgundy and Light Blue

The ground is a warm ivory that shades toward soft cream in the detail shots, and almost all the pattern work sits on top of it in a restrained palette. Gray and taupe carry the vine scroll, dark brown to near-black outlines every flower head and leaf so the drawing stays legible at arm's length, and deep burgundy is used sparingly, mostly in flower centers and petal clusters, where it functions as the accent that keeps the rug from reading flat. Light blue and a deeper indigo appear in the blossoms and in the thin ribbon borders, olive green runs through the leaf work, and beige and salmon fill the guard stripes. The overall effect is quiet and cool, closer to a pale ivory and blue reading than to the red-dominant Persian formula, which is exactly why this palette works in rooms with gray, cream, walnut or pale oak already in play.

Nain Weaving and the 500 Knot Count

Nain sits on the western edge of the great central desert, east of Isfahan, and was a wool cloth town long before it became a weaving town in the 1930s. That textile background shows: Nain weavers work in fine yarn, thin vine lines and a cool ivory and blue palette that no other Persian group copies convincingly. Fineness in Nain is counted in La, the number of plies in the warp bundle, and the finest studios, led by the Habibian workshop, built the town's reputation on exactly this kind of signed, silk-inlaid, all over floral piece. At approximately 500 knots per square inch this rug sits at the fine end of Nain production, high enough that curved vine lines stay true rather than turning into steps, and high enough that the pile handles like cloth rather than carpeting. Woven in the 1980s, stored flat and never walked on, it comes to market with full pile depth and unfaded color.