9'10" x 13'1" Indian Oriental Rug | Mahi Tabriz Design | Dense Wool with Silk | Never Used

This 9'10" x 13'1" rug is a full room-size reading of the Mahi Tabriz design, hand-knotted in India in dense, lustrous wool with silk. The field is ruby red and covered edge to edge in the small herati fish lattice, with a scalloped ivory diamond medallion at the centre, two matching pendants above and below, and quiet ivory corner brackets that pull the eye back out to a wide ivory palmette border. The silk sits in the blossoms and outlines, so the drawing lifts and shifts as you walk around it, which is what separates a wool and silk weave from a plain wool one. It is brand new, never walked on, and ships with a certificate of authenticity confirming the hand-knotted construction, the materials and the measurements above.

Design and Motifs

Mahi means fish, and the name comes from the herati unit that fills this field: a small diamond framed by four curling leaves, repeated in a tight, unbroken lattice from selvage to selvage. Look closely at the close-up photos and you can count the rhythm, with a rosette at each diamond centre and a pale blossom at every junction. The medallion is a scalloped ivory diamond with a rose outline and a darker inner cartouche carrying its own miniature herati, and the two pendants repeat that shape in smaller scale. The corners are drawn as a large diamond reserve rather than heavy spandrels, a restrained choice that keeps the all over pattern dominant. The main border is an ivory ground of alternating palmettes and rosettes joined by dark curling vine, held between four narrower guard stripes of running vine and meander, and finished with a plain ruby outer band. It is a classic composition and it earns its place on a rug this size because the repeat never becomes monotonous.

The Ruby Red, Ivory and Olive Palette

The ground is a deep ruby red that darkens toward wine in the corners and reads warmer and brighter across the centre where the light catches the silk. Against it, the herati lattice is picked out in ivory, soft olive, dusty rose and a warm camel brown, with fine dark outlines drawing every diamond so the pattern stays crisp instead of blurring into the red. The medallion and border are the cool relief: a creamy ivory, slightly golden in the pile shots, with olive leafwork and dark teal-navy outlining inside the palmettes. Small touches of chalk white are used sparingly at the blossom tips, and those are what make the field sparkle in raking light. The outer band and selvage return to a clean solid ruby, which frames the whole piece and gives a hard edge against pale floors. In practice this is a red rug that behaves like a jewel tone rather than a flat one, and it sits happily with cream upholstery, walnut and oak, as the room photo shows.

Made in India: Weaving Town Tradition and Quality

India is where most of the world's best contemporary hand-knotted work is now being made, and we say that with confidence: the weaving centres there have the looms, the wool supply and the trained hands to execute a fine, curvilinear all over design at room size without losing the line. This is an Oriental rug in the truest trade sense, knotted one knot at a time on a cotton foundation, with the herati repeat kept true across nearly 13 feet of length, the medallion sitting dead centre, and the border corners resolving cleanly rather than being crowded or cut. The pile is dense enough to stand up to a dining table and chairs, the silk is used as highlight rather than as the whole pile so the surface stays durable, and the fringe is hand-tied and untouched. If you are shopping at this footprint, it is worth comparing it against our other 10x13 area rugs, but few of them give you this much drawing per square foot in a brand new piece.