8'7" x 11'7" Wool and Silk Oriental Rug | Black Tabriz Floral All-Over | New, Never Used

This is a finely knotted Oriental rug woven in China in the Tabriz tradition, with a wool pile lifted by silk highlights on a cotton foundation. The field is a true black, unusual and hard to find at this level of drawing, and it is filled edge to edge with small floral work rather than a single medallion. At 8'7" x 11'7" it lands squarely in the most useful room size in the house, which is why buyers searching 9x12 rugs keep coming back to pieces like this one. It has never been used, the pile stands full and even, the fringe is original and untouched, and the rug ships with a certificate of authenticity confirming it is 100% hand-knotted.

Design and Motifs

The layout is a classic Tabriz all-over: a continuous lattice of thin curling vines that carries palmettes, 8 petal rosettes, lily sprays, serrated leaves and small boteh paisleys across the entire field with no central medallion to interrupt it. The drawing is symmetrical on both axes, so the same rosette answers itself top and bottom, and the vinework is fine enough that individual stems read as single lines of knots. Three borders frame the field. The wide main border runs a repeating alternation of a standing floral bouquet and an angled palmette on ivory, and it is flanked by two narrower guard bands of meandering vine. The corners are resolved cleanly, with the border pattern turning properly instead of being cut off, which is a good tell for a well drafted cartoon and a disciplined weaver.

A Black Field with Ivory, Sage and Burgundy

The ground is a deep, even black that reads almost like velvet under lamplight, and it is what makes everything else on the rug glow. Against it the flowers run through ivory, cream, soft rose and salmon, with sage and olive green in the leaves and small hits of burgundy and pale blue inside the rosette centers. The silk is used selectively, on petal edges and leaf tips, so the highlights catch the light and shift as you walk around the rug. The main border is a warm ivory that lightens the whole perimeter and keeps the black field from feeling heavy, and the outer guard band picks up a muted celadon green that ties the border back to the leafwork in the field. It is a high contrast rug that still stays quiet, because the palette is soft tones on black rather than bright ones.

Woven in China to the Tabriz Tradition

Chinese workshops built their reputation on exactly this kind of work: fine hand-knotting on a tight cotton foundation, faithful to the curvilinear Tabriz drawing that the design comes from, with silk worked in as accent rather than as the whole pile. The knot count here is high enough to hold the thin vine lines and the small floral details cleanly, which is the real test of an all-over design, and the pile has been clipped low and level so the pattern stays crisp. The ruler shot shows the tight back and the hand-tied cotton fringe. Combine that density with a wool and silk pile and you get a rug that handles real traffic while keeping its sheen, which is why a black ground piece at 8'7" x 11'7" works as well under a dining table as it does in a living room.