9'10" x 13' Persian Tabriz Rug | Wool & Silk Floral Medallion | Perfect Condition, 2000s

This 9'10" x 13' Tabriz was woven in Persia in the 2000s, and the first thing you notice handling it is how tightly the ivory field is filled. There is no lazy open ground here: every inch is drawn with curling vine, small palmettes and rosettes, the sort of detail that only holds together on a fine loom. The pile is wool with silk worked into the highlights, so the flower heads and leaf tips pick up light and read a shade brighter than the wool around them. Condition is perfect, the cotton foundation is straight and true, and it sits squarely in the most requested proportion we sell, which makes it worth comparing against our other 10x13 Persian rugs. It ships with a certificate of authenticity.

Design and Motifs

The center is a navy lobed medallion, framed by a coral red cusped surround with scrolling arabesques, and inside it a small ivory cross-shaped rosette sits at the exact middle with 4 rose cartouches set around it. Slender pendant finials drop from the medallion toward each end of the rug, the classic vertical anchor of Tabriz drawing. The ivory field radiates outward in dense curvilinear vinery: 8 petal rosettes, feathered saz leaves, small carnation sprays and pale blue blossoms, all connected by thin dark vines rather than floated loose. The 4 corners of the field carry large salmon cartouches with paisley and palmette fill, and the coral main border repeats a diamond medallion and palmette rhythm between pale sage guard stripes drawn with tiny paired florets.

A Closer Look at the Colors

The ground is a warm ivory, closer to cream than chalk white, which keeps the whole rug soft in daylight. Against it the main border is a clear coral red with a slight rose cast, not a heavy brick or oxblood, and that coral is echoed in the medallion frame and in the small field blossoms. The medallion core is deep inky navy, the darkest value in the piece, and it is the anchor that keeps all that pale field from drifting. The guard stripes run a soft sage celadon green, a genuinely unusual choice next to coral, and the field accents move through sky blue, dusty rose, salmon peach, olive and walnut brown. Silk sits in the lightest highlights, so ivory and pink details shimmer while the wool holds matte.

Tabriz Weaving and Origin

Tabriz sits in the far northwest of Persia and has been the country's most organized weaving city for centuries, working from paper cartoons on vertical looms and measuring fineness in Raj, the number of knots counted across a gereh of roughly 2.75 inches. That workshop discipline is exactly what you are looking at: curved lines that stay curved, borders that turn the corner cleanly, and a field pattern that repeats without drifting over 13 feet of length. A cotton foundation gives the rug its flat, stable lay, and the wool and silk pile is clipped low so none of the drawing is lost in the nap. Buyers who want to study the tradition further can browse our full selection of Persian Tabriz rugs and compare the drawing side by side.