9'10" x 12'6" Persian Tabriz Rug | Raspberry Red Floral Medallion | Excellent Condition

This is a room-filling Persian Tabriz at 9'10" x 12'6", hand-knotted in wool on a cotton foundation and finished with a raspberry red field that holds a navy blue medallion dead center. It is a proper workshop piece rather than a village weave: the vine work is drawn in a continuous curved line, the corner spandrels answer the medallion exactly, and the 4 corners resolve without the drawing running out of room. The pile is full and even across the whole surface, the selvages are intact and the rug lies flat on the floor with no ripple, which is what "excellent" means when we use the word. It is a natural fit for buyers shopping 10x13 Persian rugs who want real color rather than a washed-out decorator tone. Every rug we ship travels with a certificate of authenticity confirming origin, materials and hand-knotted construction.

Design and Motifs

At the heart of the field sits a navy blue lobed medallion built out of layered lancet panels, and at its very center an 8 petal rosette in ivory, rose and apricot with a small camel star at the core. Above and below the medallion, slender pendant finials reach into the field and anchor the long axis. What lifts this rug above a standard medallion layout is that the field is not left open: it is filled edge to edge with a dense all over lattice of split palmettes, serrated saz leaves, rosebuds and tiny 4 petal blossoms, all carried on thin scrolling vines that cross and recross without ever colliding. The 4 corner spandrels repeat the medallion vocabulary in navy on a darker ground, so the composition reads as one continuous drawing rather than a motif dropped onto a plain field. The main border runs a lavender ground packed with turtle palmettes and rosette clusters, framed on both sides by ivory guard stripes carrying a running meander and small flower heads, with narrow navy minor stripes outside those. It is a disciplined, formal design of the kind curved-line Persian workshops are known for.

A Raspberry Red Field With Navy and Lavender

The field color is the first thing anyone notices. It is a saturated raspberry red, cooler and more jewel-toned than the brick reds of village weaving, and the wool takes the light so that the tone shifts slightly as you walk around the rug. Against it, the medallion and spandrels are worked in a deep indigo navy that in the close-up photographs shows flecks of teal and mid blue where the dye lot changed. The main border breaks from both and runs a soft lavender, an unusual and confident choice that keeps the outer frame from going heavy, and it is populated with rose pink, ivory and apricot blossoms. Supporting colors read as ivory and cream in the guard stripes and flower centers, sage and olive green in the leaf work, camel and tobacco brown in the palmettes, and small touches of near-black outlining that sharpen every motif. The overall balance is warm and rich without turning muddy, and the red carries strongly enough to hold its own against dark wood floors, cream walls or a room already full of pattern.

Tabriz Weaving and the Quality of This Piece

Tabriz, in northwest Persia, is the country's most organized weaving city and the place where the curved-line workshop tradition was industrialized without losing its standards. Tabriz weavers use the hook-ended knife and the Raj system to measure fineness, and they weave to a drawn cartoon, which is why a Tabriz medallion is symmetrical and why the vine scroll continues cleanly through the corners instead of being improvised. You see that discipline here: the two halves of the field mirror each other, the border repeat meets the corner without a break in rhythm, and the outlines stay crisp even in the small floral heads. The wool is good northwest Persian fleece, springy underfoot and with the slight sheen that comes from proper washing, knotted on a cotton warp and weft that gives the rug its weight and keeps it lying flat at this size. The back, shown in the final photograph, is tight and legible, with the knot rows even from selvage to selvage. For a 9'10" x 12'6" room rug that is expected to live under furniture for decades, that combination of workshop drawing and durable construction is exactly what you are paying for.