9'5" x 20' Persian Tabriz Rug | Ivory Field, Rust Medallion | Approx. 400 KPSI, Never Used

This is a gallery length Tabriz woven at 9'5" x 20', a proportion you almost never see offered: narrow enough to sit cleanly between furniture walls, long enough to carry a 20 foot room from end to end without a seam or a second rug. It was hand-knotted in the 2000's, kept rolled, and has never been on a floor, so the pile still stands full and the ivory ground has not picked up a single traffic line. The wool carries a touch of silk that catches light across the medallion and the larger palmettes. Because of the length, this one belongs in the oversize Persian rugs group rather than any standard room size, and like every piece we import it ships with a certificate of authenticity.

Design and Motifs

The drawing is classic workshop Tabriz: a single round medallion set dead center, built from a 12 point rosette of lobed petals around a small ivory and blue core, with a pendant cartouche floating above and below it on the long axis. Around that the ivory field runs as a continuous arabesque, thin vines looping into split palmettes, curled saz leaves, lotus heads and small four petal blossoms, all mirrored across both axes so the 20 foot length reads as one balanced composition rather than a repeat. The 4 corners carry stepped spandrels in the same green as the border, each filled with a heavy palmette spray, and they frame the field the way a mount frames a drawing. The main border alternates large rosettes with paired leaf arms on a slow vine, flanked by two narrow guard stripes of small blossoms and a fine reciprocal minor band, so the surround is layered rather than flat.

A Soft Ivory Field Framed in Olive Green

The field is a warm ivory, closer to cream and old parchment than to white, which is what makes the rug sit comfortably next to wood floors and antique frames. Against it the medallion reads as a muted salmon rust with brick and terracotta shading, opened up at its heart by a panel of dusty pale blue and a cream and indigo rosette. The border ground is a soft olive green, slightly sage in daylight, and the border flowers pull in rose pink, cinnamon, gold, ivory and a clear mid blue. Through the field the flowerheads alternate between wine red, denim and slate blue, olive, tobacco brown and the same salmon that anchors the center, with dark brown outlines drawing every stem. Nothing here is loud: the palette is tertiary and softened, the kind of coloring that lets a large rug fill a big room without dominating it.

Woven in Tabriz, Northwest Persia

Tabriz sits in the northwest of Persia and has been the country's most organized weaving city for centuries, working from drawn cartoons on vertical looms with a hook knife, which is why the curved lines here stay true over 20 feet. Weavers there count fineness in Raj, the number of knots across a gereh of about 2.75 in: 40 Raj is commercial work, 50 is fine, and 60 Raj, roughly 400 knots per square inch, is the grade where a workshop can draw a vine this thin and a medallion this articulated. On the back you can see the knot lines running straight and even, the wefts pulled tight, and the whole 113" width holding square with no pull at the sides. A rug of this length at this knot count represents a long stretch of loom time, and the touch of silk in the pile is used where the drawing needs to lift, not scattered for effect.