9'10" x 13' Persian Mashad Rug | All Over Floral Vine Design | Burgundy Field, Excellent Condition

This is a full room size piece from Khorasan, and it does what the best Persian Mashad rugs do best: a deep burgundy ground covered edge to edge in flowering vinework, drawn with a soft curved line rather than village angles. The weave is 100% hand-knotted wool on a cotton foundation, with a 3/8" pile that still stands full and even across all 13' of length, and the back photo shows clean, tight knotting with no repairs or reweaves in view. At 9'10" x 13' it is a genuine large-room rug, and it sits comfortably among 10x13 Persian rugs that need to anchor a sofa group or a long dining table without the legs wandering off the edge. Every rug we ship travels with a certificate of authenticity recording origin, materials, size and knotting.

Design and Motifs

There is no central medallion here. The weaver ran a repeating floral lattice from selvage to selvage, which is why this reads as one of the more usable all over floral rugs for a busy room: furniture can sit anywhere on it without cutting a design in half. The field is built from broad serrated palmettes, 8 and 10 petal rosettes, tulip heads and long curling saz leaves, all strung on thin vine stems that split, cross and rejoin in a continuous rhythm. Look closely at the detail photograph and you can see how carefully the drawing is balanced, with each palmette answered by a smaller ivory blossom a few inches away. The main border is a wide navy band carrying its own turning vine of pink and ivory flowerheads, framed on both sides by ivory guard stripes with a small running meander, and the corners are resolved cleanly rather than cut off mid motif, which is the mark of a weaver working from a properly drawn cartoon.

A Burgundy Field Lit by Ivory, Blue and Green

The ground is a saturated burgundy red with a slight cherry warmth where the light catches the pile, and it shifts a shade darker when you view the rug from the opposite end. Against it, the palette is unusually varied for a red rug: chalky ivory and cream in the larger blossoms, a soft rose pink in the flower centers, an old gold and caramel brown in the leaves, and two distinct blues, a deep indigo used for outlining and a lighter sky blue that appears in small rosettes and leaf tips. Scattered through the vinework is a muted sage and teal green that keeps the whole field from reading as a single wash of red. The navy border deepens almost to black in the photographs and gives the burgundy a firm edge, while the ivory guard stripes and the ivory fringe ends lift the border away from the field. Overall the rug reads warm and traditional from a distance, then breaks into a dozen separate colors up close.

Mashad and the Weaving of Khorasan

Mashad is the great weaving city of Khorasan in northeast Persia, a pilgrimage center whose workshops have supplied large formal room size rugs for well over a century. Khorasan wool is long stapled and takes dye deeply, which is exactly why Mashad reds age into that rich burgundy tone instead of going flat, and why the pile keeps its sheen under traffic. The city's workshops work on a cotton warp and weft with an asymmetric knot, producing a firm, heavy rug that lies flat and holds its rectangle, and the curvilinear floral drawing seen here is the standard Mashad idiom rather than a village adaptation. This example is finely and evenly knotted for its scale, with straight sides, tidy selvages and a back that shows consistent knot rows from one end to the other, all signs of a single skilled weaver or a well managed workshop team seeing the piece through from start to finish.