8' x 11'7" Persian Tabriz Rug | Ivory Wool and Silk Floral Medallion | 70 Raj, Never Used

This is a 70 Raj Tabriz in the pale, high-drawing style that the best Tabriz workshops reserve for their own showrooms, woven at 8' x 11'7" on a cotton foundation with a pile of wool carrying silk through the outlines and highlights. The rug has never been on a floor: the pile stands full, the ends are square, the selvages are tight, and the silk still throws the sharp lateral sheen you can see when the light crosses it in the third photograph. At roughly 500 knots per square inch the drawing holds curves that a coarser weave simply cannot resolve, which is why the vine work reads as continuous line rather than as stepped pixels. Every rug we sell ships with a certificate of authenticity recording origin, materials, size and weave. For a room that wants formality without weight, this is close to the ideal piece of the more usable 8x11 Persian rugs we carry.

Design and Motifs

The composition is the classic Tabriz medallion and corner layout, drawn with unusual restraint. At the center sits a round medallion built in two stages: a grey blue core filled with a mirrored arabesque and a small 8 petal rosette, ringed by a peach lobed band of palmettes and curled saz leaves. Above and below it, two matching pendants finish the vertical axis. The ivory field between them is not empty for a moment, carrying an all-over lattice of thin scrolling vines that carry rosettes, pinnate leaves, small cypress-like sprays and clustered blossoms out to four cusped spandrels in the corners. The main border repeats a palmette and split-leaf rhythm on a peach ground, framed by lavender and ivory guard stripes and a narrow flowering vine on each outer edge. The end panels finish with detached floral sprigs and small animal figures worked into the outermost stripe, a Tabriz workshop touch you only find on pieces drawn from a full cartoon.

The Ivory, Peach and Pastel Color Scheme

The ground is a warm ivory, closer to unbleached cream than to stark white, and it is the reason the rug feels light in a room rather than heavy. Against it the palette runs through soft peach and dusty rose in the medallion, the spandrels and the main border, with a cool grey blue at the medallion core and repeated in the powder blue petals scattered across the field. Muted sage and olive green fill the leaf work, small accents of true red and deep aubergine punctuate individual blossom centers, and a lavender grey runs through the guard stripes and several of the larger palmettes. Gold and tan appear in fine outlining. Because the silk sits mainly in the highlights and the contour lines, the rose and blue shift a full tone as you walk around the rug: from one end the border reads dusty pink, from the other it reads closer to terracotta. Nothing here is loud, and the whole scheme is built to live with pale walls, wood floors and antique or upholstered furniture.

Tabriz Origin and the 70 Raj Standard

Tabriz sits in northwest Persia and has been the country's most organized weaving center for centuries, working from drawn cartoons under a named master rather than from memory. Tabriz measures fineness in Raj, the number of knots counted across a gereh of about 2.75 inches: 40 Raj is commercial work, 50 Raj is fine, 60 Raj is collector grade, and 70 Raj is the ceiling that only the strongest ateliers attempt, because the warps must be set so close that a single misplaced knot shows across the whole field. That is the level this rug is woven at, with the silk added not as decoration but as a practical tool, since silk takes a thinner strand and holds a crisper outline than wool at that density. The result is a piece that photographs like a painting and, thanks to Tabriz's short tight pile and cotton foundation, wears like a working floor rug.