9'1" x 12'4" Persian Tabriz Rug | Ivory Field, Teal Border, Birds & Deer | Wool & Silk 400 KPSI

This 9'1" x 12'4" Persian Tabriz rug is workshop weaving at 60 Raj, roughly 400 knots per square inch, with fine wool and silk worked over a cotton foundation. The ivory field carries a full curvilinear medallion, pendants and deep corner spandrels, and the drawing is detailed enough to hold small birds and leaping deer inside the vine scroll without the pattern ever feeling crowded. The pile is low and even, the handle is firm, and the silk catches the light along the leaf tips and outlines. It is a true room size piece that settles well under a sofa group or a 10 seat table, and it sits squarely in the most requested proportion we stock, 9x12 Persian rugs. Every rug we ship travels with a certificate of authenticity.

Design and Motifs

A layered central medallion anchors the field, built from a rust rosette core ringed by teal palmettes and cusped lobes, with tall serrated pendants running off the top and bottom. Four corner spandrels in mauve brown and rust repeat the same vocabulary at quarter scale, framing the ivory ground into a clean oval. Between them the field is filled edge to edge with an all-over vine scroll: split palmettes, 8 petal rosettes, feathered saz leaves and small buds, all drawn in the curved line Tabriz is known for. Look closely and the garden turns pictorial. Pairs of songbirds perch face to face on the scrolling stems, peacocks and cranes stand among the flowers, and small deer leap through the vine in the field and again inside the main border. The main border carries alternating palmettes and rosettes on a teal ground between a green minor stripe and fine reciprocal guard bands, a tight architectural frame for a very busy field.

Ivory, Teal Blue, Green and Rust

The palette is soft and slightly smoky rather than bright, which is what makes a rug this densely drawn easy to live with. The field is a warm ivory with a faint cream cast, and it does most of the work, giving the pattern air. Against it the weaver ran rust and salmon through the medallion and the spandrels, shading into mauve brown at the corners and into a dusty terracotta in the larger palmettes. Teal blue is the counterweight: it forms the main border ground and reappears in the medallion lobes and in scattered blossoms across the field. Sage and olive green outline the leaves, fills the minor border stripe and softens the transition between the rust and the teal. Small quantities of gold, pale sky blue, deep navy and near black do the outlining and give each flower its edge. The silk sits mostly in the highlights, so the leaf tips and the bird plumage lift and change tone as you walk past. For more on how silk is used alongside wool at this fineness, see our Persian silk rugs guide.

Tabriz Weaving and the Quality of This Piece

Tabriz sits in northwest Persia and has been the country's most organized weaving center for centuries, the place where workshop drawing, cartoon design and disciplined technique meet. Fineness there is measured in Raj, the number of knots counted across one gereh of about 2.75 inches. 40 Raj is commercial goods, 50 Raj is fine, and 60 Raj, the grade of this rug at roughly 400 knots per square inch, is where a Tabriz becomes collector level and the curved line can be drawn cleanly at small scale. That is exactly what you are seeing in the birds, the deer and the thin stem work here, none of which survive at a lower knot count. The cotton warp and weft are packed hard, the pile is clipped low so the pattern reads sharply, and the selvedges and fringe on this piece are intact and even. It is recent, in perfect condition, and ready to be laid flat and used.