9'10" x 13'4" Persian Tabriz Rug | Ivory All Over Floral Field | Signed Cartouche

Hand-knotted in northwest Persia, this 9'10" x 13'4" Tabriz takes the harder road: no central medallion to anchor the eye, just an ivory field carrying a mirrored garden of vines, palmettes and curling saz leaves from selvage to selvage, held inside a broad sapphire blue border of boteh. A small woven cartouche near the border marks it as a workshop piece rather than an anonymous one, and the weaver clearly expected the drawing to be read at close range. Wool pile on a cotton foundation, the pile still full and even across all 4 corners, it sits comfortably in the group buyers search as 10x13 Persian rugs and covers a full seating group without crowding the walls. Every rug we ship carries a certificate of authenticity.

Design and Motifs

The field is a true all over floral design, drawn in perfect mirror image along both the long and short axes. Fan-shaped palmettes open at the top and bottom of each repeat, split leaf saz forms sweep out in long curved hooks, and slender feathered sprays run down the center like small cypress plumes. Between them sit rosettes, tulips, carnations and tiny bud clusters, each one outlined in a dark ink line that keeps the density legible instead of muddy. A fine dotted inner guard traces the whole field and steps in at the corners. The main border is the strongest statement on the rug: large boteh, each one filled with its own miniature bouquet, alternate with cross-hatched pitcher forms and lotus heads, and the same boteh vocabulary repeats in miniature through the narrow outer guards. The cartouche visible in the border detail photo carries the weaver's woven script, the traditional way a Tabriz workshop signs its work.

The Ivory and Sapphire Palette

The ground is a warm ivory that reads closer to soft cream or old parchment than to bright white, with gentle abrash banding through the center where the wool takes the light differently. Against it, the border runs a clear mid sapphire blue with a faint cornflower cast, deep enough to frame the field and bright enough to keep the whole piece from feeling antique-dim. Inside the drawing the palette is layered rather than loud: dusty rose and salmon pink in the palmette petals, deep burgundy and brick red in the small blossoms and boteh centers, olive and walnut brown through the leaves and stems, slate blue and pale seafoam in the fan motifs, with flickers of forest green and soft gold. Navy outlining ties every element together. The overall effect is light, which is why a rug at this scale does not close a room down; it works with ivory, cream, camel and walnut interiors and gives a blue and white scheme a genuine anchor.

Tabriz Weaving and Quality

Tabriz sits in Azerbaijan province in the far northwest of Persia and has been the country's most consistently commercial fine-weaving city for centuries, working the Raj system where knot count is measured across a gereh of roughly 2.75 inches. Tabriz weavers use a hooked knife that lets them tie quickly and keep the line precise, which is exactly what a curvilinear field like this one demands: a vine scroll only looks like a vine scroll when the knot count is high enough to draw a smooth curve. The reverse shown in the detail photo is tight and regular, the knot rows straight, the cotton warps and wefts firm, all of it built for a rug that stays flat and takes traffic. Pile depth is still generous across the whole surface and the ends and sides are sound, which is what earns the excellent grade on a room-size piece of this age.