8' x 11'6" Persian Heriz Rug | Rose Red Geometric Medallion | Semi-Antique Village Weave

This 8' x 11'6" Persian Heriz is the room-size village weave that most buyers picture when they picture a Persian rug: a rose red field, a broad stepped medallion, ivory corners and a 3/8" wool pile that has already proven itself and still stands tall across the whole surface. The back photograph shows an even, tightly packed hand-knotted structure on a cotton foundation, with original flat-woven ends and clean cotton fringe, and the pile is consistent from end to end with no repairs or thin areas visible. It ships with a certificate of authenticity confirming it as a hand-knotted rug woven in Persia, and at 96" by 138" it covers a standard 8x12 furniture plan without crowding the walls.

Design and Motifs

The drawing is pure Heriz: everything is built from straight lines and angles rather than curves. A large stepped medallion in deep brown-black sits dead center, anchored by an 8 petal blue and ivory rosette, with hooked pendants running off the top and bottom axis and serrated leaf forms filling the medallion interior. Four ivory corner spandrels frame the field with the same angular vocabulary, filled with palmettes, cypress-like tree forms and small hooked vines. Between them the rose red ground carries large serrated leaves, rosettes and blossom heads scaled up so the pattern reads clearly from standing height. The main border is a rose ground with alternating diamond medallions and rosette clusters, flanked by narrow guard stripes of olive and ivory meander. Buyers who want more of this angular vocabulary can browse our geometric Persian rugs, though few carry this scale of medallion.

Colors: Rose Red, Ivory, Olive and Blue

The field is a warm rose red with a brick undertone, softened slightly by age so it sits closer to terracotta in daylight and deepens toward madder under lamplight. The corner spandrels and the inner drawing of the medallion are drawn in a creamy undyed ivory that has mellowed to the color of old parchment, which is what gives the rug its light and keeps a red field this large from reading heavy. Olive green runs through the guard stripes and the outer border ground, a dusty tone rather than a bright one, and it is the color that ties the rug to warm wood floors. Blue appears twice: a deep navy in the outlining of the leaves, spandrels and border diamonds, and a lighter sky blue in the central rosette and scattered small blossoms. Supporting notes of salmon pink, camel and a near-black brown fill the medallion and the smaller filler motifs, and the whole palette is the mineral-based Heriz range rather than anything synthetic and flat.

Heriz Origin and Weaving Quality

Heriz is a cluster of villages east of Tabriz in northwest Persia, spread out below Mount Sabalan, and the district owes its reputation to two things: mineral-rich water that gives the local wool an unusual toughness, and a weaving tradition that translates classical medallion designs into bold angular geometry on a village loom. Heriz weavers work from memory and from small drawn guides rather than a full cartoon, which is why the two halves of a rug like this never mirror each other exactly and why the pattern has life in it. Knot counts here are typically under 200 per square inch by design, since the point of a Heriz is a thick, hard-wearing pile on a heavy cotton foundation rather than fine drawing, and that is exactly why these rugs survive generations of traffic. This example shows the wear characteristics of a mid-century village piece in excellent order, and if you want to understand what to look at on the back and ends, read our guide on how to date an oriental rug. It also sits squarely in our range of 8x11 Persian area rugs.