8' x 10' Wool and Silk Mahi Tabriz Design Rug | Ruby Burgundy Herati Fish Field | Ivory Medallion | Brand New

This is a brand new, never used hand-knotted rug woven in the classic Mahi Tabriz idiom, with a ruby burgundy Herati field, a lobed ivory medallion and a full ivory main border. The pile blends wool with silk, and you can see the difference in the photographs: the silk catches the light along the medallion outlines and the small fish leaves, while the wool holds the deep red ground steady. At 8' x 10' it is a true room-size format, one of the most requested proportions among 8 x 10 hand-knotted rugs, and the drawing is fine enough that the pattern reads cleanly from standing height. Every rug we sell ships with a certificate of authenticity confirming that it is hand-knotted, along with its size, materials and design.

Design and Motifs

The field is covered edge to edge in the Herati pattern, also called mahi or fish: a small diamond lattice, a rosette at each intersection, and 4 curved leaves turned outward at every diamond so they read like fish circling a pond. It is one of the hardest all-over patterns to keep honest across a large field, because every repeat has to line up with the one beside it, and here the lattice tracks straight from border to border. At the center sits an ivory medallion with a scalloped outline and a black inner cartouche holding a small ivory and salmon rosette, finished top and bottom with slender pendants. The 4 corner spandrels answer the medallion in dark ground with matching ivory tracery. The border system runs 7 bands deep: an ivory main border of turtle palmettes and curling vines, flanked by gold, grey-green and salmon guard stripes carrying rosettes, small boteh and geometric links, all closed by a solid burgundy selvage and clean ivory fringe.

A Ruby Burgundy Field Lit by Ivory and Olive

The dominant color is a ruby burgundy that deepens toward oxblood in the shaded photographs and warms to a clear cherry red where light falls across the pile. Against it, the Herati fish leaves are picked out in ivory, pale slate blue and soft salmon, with olive green stems and black outlines giving each diamond its definition, so the field never flattens into a single block of red. The medallion is ivory with a jet black core, and that black repeats in the 4 corner spandrels to frame the composition. The main border is ivory, the guard bands move through antique gold, sand, pale grey-green and a dusty rose, and small touches of moss green and brick appear in the rosettes. It is a warm, formal palette that sits comfortably with mahogany and walnut furniture, and the ivory border gives the whole rug a bright perimeter against dark floors.

Weaving Quality and Indian Workshop Origin

This rug was made in India, where most of the world's best contemporary hand-knotted work is now produced. The finest Indian workshops weave the Mahi Tabriz pattern to a very high standard, on a cotton foundation with a tightly clipped wool and silk pile, and this piece shows it: look at the back in the photographs and the knot rows are even and small, the pattern legible from the reverse, the selvages tight and the ends squarely finished. That density is what lets the small Herati repeats and the fine medallion outlines stay crisp rather than blurring. If you are weighing the difference between this kind of piece and its Persian counterpart, our guide on the Oriental rug category explains exactly how origin, weave and design terms relate. Brand new and never laid in a home, this one is ready to go straight down.