9'11" x 12'6" Persian Tabriz Rug | Multi-Color Khesti Panel Design | Excellent Condition

Most large Tabriz rugs lean on a single central medallion. This one does the opposite: the whole 9'11" x 12'6" field is broken into dozens of small lozenge panels, each one drawn and colored as if it were a miniature rug of its own. Hand-knotted in Persia with a wool pile on a cotton foundation, it sits squarely in the practical 10x13 class that covers a full seating group or a table for 10, and the pile has stayed even and full from selvedge to selvedge. Every rug we sell ships with a certificate of authenticity that records the origin, materials and measurements you see above. If you are comparing pieces across the 10x13 Persian rug range, this is the one that reads as pattern first and medallion never.

Design and Motifs

The layout is the khesti, or panel, format: a continuous diamond lattice of cusped, scalloped compartments repeating edge to edge with no central anchor, a true all-over design. Inside each panel the weaver placed a different filler, and the close-up photographs show how much variety is packed in: a standing lotus flanked by leaf sprays, a footed vase issuing curling stems, a single crisp rosette ringed by tiny buds, a spray of small white blossoms scattered across a plain ground, and paired serrated leaves curving back on themselves. Small diamonds and eight petal flowers fill the junctions where four panels meet, so there is no dead space anywhere in the field. The border system runs five bands deep: a wide ivory and red main border of alternating floral cartouches and palmette groups, flanked by narrow guard stripes of running vine on dark green and navy, then a fine outer stripe of repeating blossoms. The corners resolve cleanly, which on a panel design of this scale is a real test of the cartoon.

A True Multi-Color Palette

This is a multi-colored rug in the literal sense, and the panels rotate through the full range rather than repeating a fixed sequence. Count the grounds and you get madder red, deep indigo navy, a mid electric blue, sage and bottle green, warm ivory and cream, camel and olive brown, saffron gold, and a soft apricot peach that shows up in the fifth photograph. Because each panel is outlined in dark navy against its neighbors, the colors stay separate instead of turning muddy, and the ivory panels act as breathing room across the field. The main border is a deep red that frames all of it and gives the rug a single dominant color when you stand back and view it from across the room. The wool takes light well, so the greens and golds lift and the reds deepen depending on where you stand. Practically, a field this varied will pick up almost any upholstery color already in the room instead of dictating one.

Tabriz Weaving and Quality

Tabriz sits in northwest Persia and has been the country's most organized weaving center for centuries, working from drawn cartoons rather than memory and measuring its own fineness in Raj, the number of knots across a gereh of about 2.75 in. That workshop discipline is exactly what a khesti panel design demands: dozens of separate small drawings have to line up on a grid across nearly 12'6" of length without drifting. The back photograph shows a tight, regular knot and a firmly packed weft, with the pattern reading almost as clearly from the reverse as from the face. The pile is a sturdy 3/8" wool on a cotton foundation, the construction that makes Tabriz rugs a sensible choice for rooms that get used daily, and the condition here is excellent with full even pile and no thin areas.