9'11" x 12'8" Persian Tabriz Rug | All Over Floral Field | Fine Wool Pile, Excellent Condition

This is a room-filling Persian Tabriz in the classic proportion buyers look for when they shop 10x13 Persian rugs, measuring 9'11" x 12'8" with a hand-knotted wool pile of about 3/8" on a cotton foundation. Instead of a central medallion the weaver ran a continuous floral system across the whole field, which is the harder drawing to resolve at this scale because every repeat has to meet the border cleanly on all 4 sides. The pile is full and even from end to end, the selvedges are intact and the ivory cotton fringe is clean and original, as the corner and back photographs show. Each rug we ship leaves Freeport with a certificate of authenticity documenting origin, materials and construction.

Design and Motifs

The field is a true all over floral design, built from a thin scrolling vine that carries large serrated palmettes, curled boteh paisleys, 8 petal rosettes and small ivory blossom sprays. The layout mirrors across the long axis, so the same palmette that rises at the top of the field appears inverted at the bottom, a symmetry you can follow in the close-up photograph. The main border is broad and dark, filled with alternating cartouche palmettes and cupped leaf forms set between them, and it is framed on both sides by gold-ground guard stripes carrying a running rosette and leaf chain. Two narrow ivory minor bands separate field from border and keep the dense drawing legible instead of crowded. There is no central medallion, which makes the rug forgiving under furniture: a sofa or a dining table sits on the pattern without interrupting a focal point.

A Deep Madder Red Field Against Black and Gold

The ground is a deep madder red with a slight warm cast, the sort of red that goes brick in lamplight and cooler in daylight. Against it the main border reads almost black, a very dark navy-black that gives the field a hard frame and makes the red look richer by contrast. The drawing itself is polychrome: sky blue and cobalt in the flower centers and the small border rosettes, soft rose and salmon in the petal work, olive and camel green in the leaves, and ivory outlines that trace the vine so the pattern stays readable across 12'8" of length. The gold-brown guard stripes are the transition color that ties field and border together, and the same camel tone reappears in the outer minor bands. Ivory is used sparingly and deliberately, in blossom heads and in the thin outlining, which is what keeps a dark red and black rug from going heavy.

Tabriz Origin and Weaving Quality

Tabriz sits in northwest Persia and has been the country's most commercially serious weaving city for centuries, working from cartoons rather than memory, which is why Tabriz drawing holds its curve and its symmetry over a field this large. Tabriz weavers measure fineness in Raj, the count of knots per gereh of about 2.75 in across the width, and the loom discipline that comes with that system shows here in the straight sides, the square corners and the even beat of the weft. This piece is a solid workshop weave rather than a 60 Raj collector rug: the wool is springy and durable, the pile has been left at a practical 3/8", and the back photograph shows a clear, regular knot grid. That combination, curvilinear city drawing with village-strength wool, is exactly why a Tabriz of this size survives decades of real use in a busy room.