9'10" x 13'2" Persian Kashan Rug | Navy Medallion on Deep Red Floral Field | Excellent Condition

This is the Kashan formula done properly and at full room scale: a deep red field, a navy lobed medallion with an ivory heart, ivory spandrels in all 4 corners, and a wide indigo border that frames the whole thing without crowding it. At 9'10" x 13'2" it covers a genuine 10x13 footprint, hand-knotted in Persia on a cotton foundation with a 3/8" wool pile that still has full body and even height across the field. The wool takes light the way good Kashan fleece does, so the red reads warm and slightly deeper toward the ends. Every rug we sell ships with a certificate of authenticity stating origin, materials and construction. If you want more background before you buy, our Persian Kashan rugs guide walks through the design vocabulary and how to judge quality, and you can compare it against the rest of our 10x13 Persian rugs.

Design and Motifs

The center holds a stepped, lobed medallion in dark navy, built outward from a single 8 petal rosette set in an ivory cartouche, with curled leaves and small palmettes filling the navy ground around it. Slender pendants run off the medallion toward each end. The field itself is not empty support for the medallion, it is a full all-over composition: curving vine work, rosettes, lotus palmettes and feathery serrated leaves drawn small and repeated with real discipline, so the pattern stays legible even at 13 feet. The 4 spandrels are ivory, each filled with the same vine and blossom drawing reversed against a light ground, which is the classic Kashan device for pulling the eye back to the center. The main border is a wide indigo band of alternating palmettes and rosettes joined by a continuous meandering vine, flanked by narrow guard stripes and a fine reciprocal minor border. The corners of the main border resolve cleanly, which is a fair test of a weaver working from a proper cartoon.

The Color Palette: Deep Red, Indigo and Ivory

The field is a true Kashan red, closer to a deep cherry than to brick, with enough abrash in the wool to keep it from looking flat or printed. Against it the medallion and the main border sit in a dark indigo navy that is almost black in low light and opens into blue where the light hits the pile. Ivory does the structural work: the medallion core, the spandrels, the guard stripes and the outlines of the larger blossoms are all drawn in it, and that white line is what keeps the pattern crisp. Inside the flowers the weaver used a full secondary palette, sky blue and cornflower, soft gold and ochre, sage and olive green, rose, salmon and small touches of terracotta, so at close range the rug reads multi-color even though from across the room it reads red and navy. The ends finish in natural ivory fringe. It is an easy palette to build around: warm neutrals, dark woods, brass, navy or forest upholstery.

Kashan: Central Persia and the Court Weaving Tradition

Kashan sits in central Persia, north of Isfahan, and its looms trace back to the Safavid court workshops that produced some of the most famous carpets ever woven. The city kept that tradition alive through the modern era on the strength of two things: soft, lustrous local wool that holds dye and gains sheen with use, and an unbroken habit of weaving from precise drawn cartoons rather than from memory. That is why a Kashan of this type looks orderly rather than improvised, and why the curved medallion outline stays smooth instead of stepping. The weave here is close and regular, the pile is evenly shorn at 3/8", and the rug lies flat and heavy the way a properly beaten Kashan should. It is also the Persian rug most Americans have already seen without knowing its name: when you watch Shark Tank there is a Persian Kashan on the floor. This one is sized for a large living room, a dining table with chairs fully pulled out, or a great room where a 10x13 finally fills the space.