9'11" x 16'2" Persian Tabriz Rug | All-Over Floral Vinery | Oversize, Excellent Condition

This is a proper room-filling Tabriz. At 9'11" x 16'2" it runs the length of a formal living room or seats a 12 seat table with chair clearance on all 4 sides, which is exactly the scale Tabriz workshops built for when a client ordered a long floor. The field is a deep tomato red worked in an all-over floral system with no single central medallion, so the drawing reads continuously down the full 16 feet instead of anchoring to one spot, and the wide ivory border frames it without shortening the field visually. The pile is a 3/8" wool clip on a cotton foundation, dense enough underfoot to feel substantial but low enough that the fine vinework stays legible. Condition is excellent: the pile is even from end to end, the ends and sides are sound, and the rug shows none of the low spots or corner wear that usually give an oversize rug away. It ships with our certificate of authenticity, and despite the weight that comes with a rug this size, delivery is free to all 50 states. If you are comparing pieces at this scale, see the rest of our oversize Persian rugs.

Design and Motifs

The field is a classic Tabriz all-over floral design, built on a thin ivory vine that loops the full length of the rug and hangs a repeating vocabulary of ornament off every turn: broad fan-shaped palmettes, long curled saz leaves with serrated edges, small pomegranate and lotus buds on short stems, and 8 petal rosettes set at the crossing points. The center of the field carries a teal and pink rosette panel drawn as a small diamond rather than a full medallion, and it repeats up and down the field so the composition never looks like it is missing a middle. Corner detail is where the drawing earns its keep: the vine turns cleanly into all 4 corners of the field and the spandrel ornament resolves instead of being cut off, which is a workshop habit rather than a village one. The main border is a wide ivory band of alternating palmettes and cartouche-like blossoms joined by a reciprocal vine, flanked by narrow teal and rust guard stripes, and the outermost stripe is a fine zigzag that keeps the whole frame crisp. Plain ivory fringe finishes both ends.

The Color Palette in Detail

Red is the story here, but it is not one flat red. The ground is a warm tomato to madder red that shifts slightly across the width as the light moves, the way good hand-spun wool always does, and the palmettes are outlined in a darker brick red that pushes them forward off the ground. Against that field the weaver worked a cool set: teal and turquoise blue in the rosette centers and the guard stripes, navy in the bud hearts and the fine outlines, and pale sky blue in the petal tips. The warm accents are rust orange, apricot, soft coral pink and a dull gold, all used in small amounts so they read as highlights rather than blocks of color. Sage and bottle green appear in the curled leaves, which is what keeps the vinework from looking like it floats. The main border is a creamy undyed ivory, slightly yellower than the fringe, and that single wide band of light is what makes the red field look rich instead of heavy. Overall the rug is unmistakably a red rug from across the room and a genuinely multi-colored one when you stand over it.

Tabriz: The Town and the Weave

Tabriz sits in the northwest of Persia and has been the country's most commercially serious weaving city for centuries, the place where the designer, the dyer and the loom master were separate trades rather than one household. Tabriz weavers measure fineness in Raj, the number of knots across one gereh of about 2.75 in of width, and the city's output runs from workable 40 Raj floor rugs up to the 60 and 70 Raj collector pieces that only a handful of workshops attempt. This rug sits in the durable, honest middle of that tradition: a cotton foundation pulled tight, a firm double-weft structure you can feel when you fold a corner, and a 3/8" wool pile clipped low so the fine ivory vine stays readable. The back photograph with the ruler tells you what you need to know about the weave, evenly spaced knots in straight rows with no drift and no visible slack in the wefts, which is why a 16 foot rug like this has stayed square. Tabriz wool takes dye deeply and wears slowly, and a rug of this scale built on a Tabriz foundation is the kind of floor covering that outlasts several sets of furniture.