9'1" x 12'5" Pakistani Oriental Rug | Green Tabriz Floral Medallion | 18/18 Fine Wool

This 9'1" x 12'5" piece is a contemporary Pakistani weaving of a classic Tabriz cartoon, knotted in fine wool on a cotton foundation at 18 knots by 18 knots to the inch. The field is a soft sea green, a color that is far harder to dye evenly across a room-size weave than the usual reds and navies, and it is held by a broad camel border that carries the eye the full 12'5" length. The rug is brand new and has never been on a floor, which you can see in the full, springy pile and in the clean unworn fringe at both ends. It falls in the most requested of all 9x12 area rugs proportions, wide enough for a dining table with the chairs pulled back or a full seating group with all legs on the wool, and it ships with a certificate of authenticity confirming it as a genuine hand-knotted Oriental rug.

Design and Motifs

The drawing follows the Tabriz workshop formula: a lobed ivory medallion at center, cored with a red rosette and a small green star, with slender pendants reaching out along the long axis and cloud-band curls filling the inner cartouche. Matching ivory spandrels close the 4 corners, each packed with boteh and serrated leaves. Between medallion and border the field is not left quiet for a moment. Curving vines carry palmettes, 8 petal rosettes, tulip sprays, blossoming branches and small pointed leaves, laid out in mirror symmetry so that both halves answer each other while the individual flower heads change color from one repeat to the next. The main camel border alternates large floral cartouches with paisley forms and leafy scrolls, and it is fenced on both sides by narrow guard stripes carrying a reciprocal vine on a teal ground. The corners of that border turn cleanly, which is the first thing to check on a floral rug of this size and the clearest sign the weavers followed a properly drawn cartoon rather than improvising at the ends.

A Sea Green Field Framed in Honey Camel

The field color is the reason to buy this one. It is a muted sea green with a grey cast, closer to sage or celadon than to emerald, and it stays even from selvage to selvage with only the gentle abrash you want in a hand-dyed wool. Against it the ornament reads warm: deep burgundy and rust in the flower heads, dusty salmon and old rose in the petals, olive and pine in the leafwork, and repeated flashes of teal blue in the smaller rosettes. The wide border shifts to a honey camel gold that lifts the whole rug and gives it a lighter perimeter than the field, with the same burgundy, teal and green repeated in the cartouches so nothing feels bolted on. Ivory appears where it matters most, in the medallion, the spandrels and the fringe. Put simply, it is a green rug that behaves like a neutral, and it works against warm wood, cream plaster and darker upholstery without competing. Buyers shopping green area rugs in this size rarely find a floral this soft.

Woven in Pakistan to 18/18 Quality

Pakistan's workshops have spent decades weaving the classical Tabriz and Kashan cartoons on cotton warps, and the grading system there is refreshingly plain: 18/18 means 18 knots across every inch and 18 knots up every inch, roughly 324 knots per square inch. That count is what allows the curved vine and the round petal edges you see in the close-ups instead of the stepped, angular line a coarser weave would force. The wool is fine and tightly spun, clipped to a medium pile that still shows the knot definition clearly on the back, and the selvages and fringe are finished by hand in the same green and ivory. Among hand-knotted Oriental rugs at this scale, a piece of this density in an unworn state is the sensible way into a formal floral look, and at 9'1" x 12'5" it is built to take a dining room or a main living space for decades.