8' x 9' Persian Tabriz Rug | Ivory Field Floral Medallion | 60 Raj Wool & Silk

This 8' x 9' Persian Tabriz rug is a workshop piece that never reached a floor. The pile is wool with silk worked into the flowers and the fine outlines, the foundation is cotton, and the original hang tag and cloth mill label are still attached at the corner, which you can see in the last photograph. Knot count is roughly 400 per square inch, 60 Raj in the Tabriz system, which is why the drawing stays this crisp at a scale where lesser weaves go soft. The wool is clean and full, the ends and sides are intact, and the fringe is bright white. Every rug we sell ships with a certificate of authenticity recording the origin, materials, weave and exact measurements.

Design and Motifs

The center holds a small 8 petal rosette set in a lobed medallion, ringed by grape clusters, tiny cypress forms and paired palmettes, then framed by a sweeping blue arabesque cartouche and two pendant crests above and below. From there the field opens into a full all over vine system: split leaf arabesques, Shah Abbas palmettes, carnation heads, serrated leaves and dozens of small songbirds tucked into the scrollwork, so close that you notice them only after the second or third look. Large cloud band spandrels fill all 4 corners. The main border runs a slow rhythm of footed vases and rosette cartouches with more birds and small deer between them, and it is fenced by two narrow guard stripes of alternating lotus buds. The drawing is symmetrical on both axes and the cartoon was clearly followed with discipline, with no drift where the curves meet the border.

Ivory, Sage Green and Berry Rose

The ground is a warm ivory, closer to unbleached cream than to stark white, and the silk in the flower heads catches light so the field shifts a shade as you walk past it. The spandrels are a muted sage green that deepens toward the corners into a berry rose reading almost mauve where the pile turns, and those two tones do the work of framing the field without a hard line anywhere. Inside the vines the palette is quiet and varied: dusty rose, olive, chestnut brown, terracotta, pale sky blue on the bird wings, mustard gold at the medallion heart, and a deep navy blue that outlines the central cartouche and the largest flower heads. The main border is a soft camel gold that lifts the whole rug off a dark floor, edged in a brown rose stripe. No color shouts, which is exactly what makes a rug this busy read as calm on the floor.

Tabriz Weaving and the Raj Count

Tabriz sits in northwest Persia and has been a weaving capital for centuries, the city where the workshop tradition of drafting a design on paper and following it knot for knot is taken most seriously. Fineness there is measured in Raj, the number of knots across a gereh of about 2.75 in of width: 40 Raj is commercial goods, 50 is fine, and 60 Raj, roughly 400 knots per square inch, is where collector grade begins. This rug is a 60 Raj weave, and you can see what the count buys in the photographs, in curved stems that stay unbroken and bird heads only a few knots wide that still read as birds. Add silk in the highlights over a firm cotton foundation and you have a rug built to be looked at closely, from a city that expects nothing less.