8' x 9'7" Persian Kashan Rug | Navy Blue Geometric Medallion | Excellent Condition Wool Pile

Measuring 8' x 9'7", this hand-knotted Persian rug is built on a cotton foundation with a full wool pile, and it lands right in the middle of the most usable proportion in the business: wide enough to hold a sofa and two chairs, short enough to leave a border of floor on every side. The field is a deep navy, the medallion a warm salmon, and the whole layout follows the medallion-and-corner formula that defines Persian Kashan rugs, though the drawing here is angular rather than curvilinear, with stepped corners and crisply serrated leaves. Pile depth is even from end to end, the selvedges are intact and the cotton fringe is original, which is why the condition reads Excellent. Every rug we ship carries a certificate of authenticity confirming it as a hand-knotted Persian piece, and this one sits in our most requested format, the 8x10 Persian rugs group.

Design and Motifs

The center holds a large stepped medallion in salmon, drawn as an octagon with squared shoulders and small hooked brackets at each of the 4 quarters. Inside it sits a cream cartouche built around an 8 petal rosette, flanked by pairs of small yellow panels and tiny arrow-tipped devices. Above and below the medallion, long lance-shaped pendants reach into the navy field, each one ending in a serrated palmette. The open navy ground is not empty: it carries big feathered leaves, curling vine tendrils and clusters of small blossoms drawn in ivory, salmon, sky blue and olive, all laid out in strict mirror symmetry across both axes. The 4 corners are filled with ivory spandrels that step inward like a staircase, each enclosing a light blue panel of leaf and vine work. The main border runs salmon, alternating a rounded rosette with an ivory reciprocal device and a small navy lozenge, framed on both sides by a narrow ivory guard of running blossom and a finishing navy stripe.

A Navy Field Warmed by Salmon and Ivory

The field reads as a dark ink navy, close to indigo where the light hits it straight and nearly black in the shadowed folds, which is what gives the pattern its lift. Against it the medallion and the main border share the same salmon, a soft brick-coral that sits somewhere between terracotta and dusty rose and carries subtle tonal movement from one row to the next. Ivory to cream does the structural work, outlining the medallion, filling the corner spandrels and drawing the guard borders so the navy and salmon never collide. Inside that framework the weaver layered a clear mid sky blue in the corner panels and the border rosettes, a muted olive to moss green in the small leaves and outer vine, and touches of soft butter gold in the medallion panels and the outermost guard stripe. Brown and charcoal outlines define the leaf edges, and the natural undyed cotton fringe at both ends finishes the palette on a pale note.

Kashan Weaving in Central Persia

Kashan sits in central Persia, north of Isfahan, and its looms trace back to the Safavid court workshops that first made the medallion-and-corner layout the standard vocabulary of Persian weaving. The town is known for soft, lustrous local wool and for the classic formula of a saturated field, a lobed central medallion and ivory spandrels, which is exactly the skeleton behind this piece even though the drawing was handled in a bolder, more angular manner. It is also the design most Americans have already seen without knowing its name: when you watch Shark Tank there is a Persian Kashan on the floor. The reverse of this rug, photographed with a ruler for scale, shows straight vertical warp lines, tight and regular knot rows and no waviness or pulled areas, the marks of a well-tensioned loom and a weaver who kept the same beat for the full 9'7" of length. That regularity is why the pile has stayed even and why a rug of this weight will keep its shape under furniture for decades.