9'10" x 13'2" Persian Kashan Rug | Signed Floral Medallion | Excellent Condition

This is a signed, room size Persian Kashan rug measuring 9'10" x 13'2", hand-knotted in wool on a cotton foundation and finished with a 3/8" pile that still stands full and even across the whole field. A weaver's cartouche is knotted into the ivory guard band at the top end, in green and navy script on an ivory ground, which tells you the piece came out of a named workshop rather than an anonymous production loom. The drawing is the classic Kashan formula done properly: a deep red field, a navy lobed medallion, and ivory corner spandrels, all worked at a density fine enough to carry curved vine work without the outlines breaking into steps. At 9'10" x 13'2" it belongs in the group of 10x13 Persian rugs that anchor a full seating arrangement with all furniture legs on the rug. Every rug we sell ships with a certificate of authenticity.

Design and Motifs

The center holds a navy lobed medallion with stepped shoulders and a slender finial at each end, and inside it a nested ivory cartouche ringed by 8 curling leaf forms around a pale blue rosette core. Radiating out from the medallion, the red field is filled edge to edge with an all over floral system of palmettes, lotus heads, serrated saz leaves and thin scrolling vines that mirror exactly across both axes. The 4 corner spandrels repeat the medallion's ivory and navy palette in quarter form, each one built around a large palmette with feathered leaves. The main border is a navy turtle palmette and rosette meander, framed on both sides by pale blue and ivory guard stripes carrying a running vine of small blossoms. Close inspection of the back, shown beside a ruler, confirms a tight, regular knot count with clean row alignment, which is why the small floral detail reads sharply instead of blurring.

A Deep Red Field with Navy, Ivory and Soft Blue

The field is a saturated true red, warm rather than orange, with the slight tonal movement through the pile that only natural dyed wool gives. Against it the medallion, spandrel grounds and main border read as a deep inky navy, close to black where the light falls away and clearly blue where it catches. The third voice is ivory, used for the medallion center, the spandrel bodies and the guard stripes, and it is ivory that keeps the whole composition legible instead of heavy. Inside the flowers sits a much wider secondary palette: powder blue and slate blue rosettes, olive and sage green leaf work and vine stems, soft rose and salmon petals, gold and mustard highlights, and touches of brown and camel in the palmette shading. The green appears as an accent through the vines and again in the signature cartouche. Explore more red and burgundy Persian rugs if this palette is what you are matching to.

Kashan: The Weaving Town and the Quality of the Weave

Kashan sits in central Persia, north of Isfahan, and its looms descend directly from the Safavid court workshop tradition. The town's reputation rests on two things: soft, lustrous local wool that takes dye deeply and holds its sheen for generations, and a disciplined house style of red field, navy lobed medallion and ivory spandrels that Kashan weavers have refined for well over a century. It is also the design most Americans have seen without knowing its name, since when you watch Shark Tank there is a Persian Kashan on the floor. This example is workshop grade rather than village work: the knotting is fine and consistent, the selvedges are tight, the ends are straight and the pile is unworn throughout. Browse the full collection of Persian Kashan rugs to compare weaves and palettes side by side.