8'9" x 19'6" Persian Kerman Rug | Navy Field, Camel Gold Border | Signed Oversize Gallery Piece

This is a gallery length piece: 8'9" x 19'6" of deep navy blue field running almost 20 feet, wrapped in a wide camel gold border. Rugs of this shape were woven for long rooms, not square ones, and they are the hardest thing to find in the market, which is why buyers searching oversize Persian rugs often wait years for the right one. The pile is wool on a cotton foundation, hand-knotted throughout, and the close photographs show it standing full and even with no thin areas along the walking line. One detail lifts it above the ordinary: a woven inscription sits in the navy ground just under the inner guard stripe, the weaver's own mark left in the pile rather than on a label. Every rug we sell ships with a certificate of authenticity confirming the origin, the materials and the hand-knotted construction.

Design and Motifs

The field is drawn in the detached spray manner: individual flowering stems, curling leaf scrolls, boteh paisleys and small vases float on open navy ground rather than locking into a rigid lattice. Because nothing repeats mechanically, the eye travels the full 19'6" length instead of stopping at a medallion. Sprays are mirrored across the center line and anchored at each end by a tall upright bouquet, so the rug reads as balanced from either doorway. Serrated palmettes, rosettes and tiny star blossoms fill the spaces between the larger stems. The camel gold main border carries a continuous meandering vine of blue and coral blossoms with slender leaves, framed inside and out by narrow guard stripes of gold and ivory, and finished with a navy outer band that repeats the floral spray of the field. The four corners are resolved cleanly, with soft salmon spandrels marking where the field meets the border.

Navy Blue, Camel Gold and Coral

The ground is a saturated indigo navy that shifts with the nap, reading close to black where the pile lies away from the light and opening to a clear midnight blue where it leans toward you. Against it the drawing is worked in camel gold, honey yellow, apricot and coral pink, with sky blue and turquoise picking out flower centers and leaf tips, plus touches of soft green and ivory. The wide border is a warm camel gold that lightens toward apricot in places, a natural variation in the dyed wool that gives the surface depth instead of flatness. Coral and salmon appear again in the corner spandrels, tying border to field. The overall effect is warm and lamp-lit rather than cold, which is why navy and gold rooms built around a rug like this hold up well in the evening.

Kerman Weaving in Southeast Persia

Kerman sits in the southeast of Persia, a desert city with one of the longest continuous weaving traditions in the country and a reputation built on drawing rather than pure knot count. Kerman weavers worked from detailed cartoons, which is what allows the curved stems, feathered leaf edges and rounded rosettes seen here; that kind of line collapses in a coarse weave. The local wool takes dye deeply and keeps a soft handle underfoot, and the single weft Kerman structure lets a large loom carry a very long rug without distortion, which matters enormously at this length. Weaving a 19'6" piece is a commitment of years on one loom, and the fact that the pattern stays true from end to end, with no drift in width and no crowding at the finish, tells you this came off a properly set workshop loom rather than a village one.