8'6" x 12'6" Wool and Silk Oriental Rug | Tabriz Design All-Over Floral | Brand New, Never Used

This is a brand new, never used hand-knotted rug measuring 8'6" x 12'6", woven in wool with silk highlights over a cotton foundation and drawn in the classical Tabriz manner. The pile is dense and cleanly clipped, so the drawing stays sharp right down to the smallest 4 petal blossom, and the silk passages lift out of the wool whenever the light moves across the floor. At just over 8 and a half feet by 12 and a half feet it is a true room size piece, the kind of proportion that anchors a sofa group or seats a full dining table, and it sits comfortably among our large area rugs. Every rug we sell ships with a certificate of authenticity confirming that it is genuinely hand-knotted, along with its full specification.

Design and Motifs

There is no central medallion here. The field is an all-over floral composition, a network of thin scrolling vines that arch, cross and mirror themselves from one half of the rug to the other, carrying open roses, budding palmettes, lanceolate leaves and small 8 petal rosettes. Look closely at the field photographs and you can follow one vine from a cluster of cabbage roses through a run of tiny 5 petal flowers into a dark navy blossom, then watch the same sequence repeat in reverse on the opposite side of the center line. The layout runs edge to edge without interruption, which is why an all-over drawing like this handles furniture so gracefully: nothing important gets buried under a coffee table. Framing it is a 3 part border system, a broad main band of paired palmettes and turning vinework, flanked on both sides by narrow guard stripes of small repeating rosettes, with the corners resolved cleanly so the pattern turns rather than collides.

A Burgundy Field Against Black, Ivory and Olive

The ground is a deep burgundy, a wine red with brown in it rather than a bright cherry, and it reads darker in shade and warmer under lamplight. Against it the floral work is worked mostly in ivory, cream and pale gold, with softer secondary tones of blush pink, peach and stone grey inside the larger blossoms. Leaves and vine stems are olive and sage green, which keeps the field from turning into a single red and cream contrast, and small navy blue and near black flower heads are scattered through the ground as punctuation. The main border flips the balance: a black to deep navy band with the same ivory, gold and rose flowers drawn across it, edged by warm gold and tan guard stripes that carry small red and navy rosettes. The silk content sits mainly in the highlights of the flowers and the pale leaf tips, so those areas catch light and shift tone as you walk around the rug while the burgundy wool ground stays matte and steady. The fringe is ivory.

Origin and Weaving Quality

This rug was made in China, on a cotton foundation, by weavers working the classical Tabriz repertoire: the curved vine, the paired palmette, the multi-band border. It is an Oriental rug rather than a Persian one, and we say so plainly, because the workshops that produce this grade of goods are judged on the same things any fine weaving is judged on: knot density, wool quality and the accuracy of the drawing. The close-up photographs show the answer. The knot rows are tight and even, the outlines of each leaf and petal hold a clean single-knot line, and the pile is packed firmly enough that the rug lies flat and heavy without any wobble in the borders. Curvilinear drawing of this kind only works at a high knot count, since every arc has to be built from a stepped column of knots fine enough that the eye reads it as a curve. Handled in person the piece feels substantial, the surface is plush with a slight sheen where the silk sits, and the selvedges and ends are sound and untouched on a rug that has never been on a floor.