9'6" x 12'10" Persian Tabriz Rug | Navy Blue Field with Brick Red Medallion | Excellent Condition

This is a classical Persian Tabriz in the size most American rooms are actually built around, and it reads as a serious floor piece the moment it is unrolled. The field is a deep, saturated navy blue, the medallion a warm brick red, and the drawing between them is packed tight with small floral and vessel motifs rather than left open. At 9'6" x 12'10" it sits squarely within the family of 10x13 Persian rugs that anchor a full seating group or a long dining table without crowding the walls. The pile is wool on a cotton foundation, the handle is firm and even, and the condition is excellent with full pile and clean, straight sides. Every rug we sell ships with a certificate of authenticity confirming it is hand-knotted and Persian in origin.

Design and Motifs

The layout is the classic Tabriz medallion and corner scheme, drawn with a weaver's discipline rather than loosely sketched. A stepped, lobed medallion fills the center with a small ivory cartouche at its heart, and inside that sits a pale blue-grey shield carrying a tiny bouquet, so the eye travels inward through 3 distinct frames before it stops. Pendants rise and fall from the medallion at top and bottom, each tipped with a diamond rosette. The navy field around it is not empty for a moment: cypress and weeping willow forms, small vases, palmettes, split-leaf arabesques and dozens of 8 petal rosettes are set in mirrored pairs across all 4 quarters. Ivory spandrels break the corners with a stepped outline and carry their own vine work. The main border runs a brick red ground with alternating diamond cartouches and turtle palmettes, flanked by narrow ivory and gold guard stripes with a fine sawtooth vine. Look at the corner photograph and the border resolution turns cleanly around the angle, which is the detail that separates a workshop drawing from a copied one.

A Navy Blue Field Balanced by Brick Red and Ivory

The dominant color is a deep midnight navy, almost ink-dark in the corners and lifting slightly toward indigo where the light catches the pile, which is exactly what buyers searching for navy blue Persian rugs are usually after. Against it the medallion and the main border read as a soft brick red with a terracotta cast, mellow rather than bright, the sort of red that has clearly settled with age. Ivory does the structural work: the spandrels, the medallion core and the outer guard stripe all sit in a warm cream that keeps the navy from closing in. Inside the motifs the palette opens up considerably, with old gold and mustard in the small leaf forms, muted teal and sage green in the rosettes and vine tips, dusty salmon and pale rose in the flower heads, and scattered touches of pale grey-blue. Underfoot the effect is dark and grounding from a distance and surprisingly colorful up close, which makes it easy to live with next to both cool grey walls and warmer wood tones.

Tabriz Weaving in Northwest Persia

Tabriz sits in the northwest of Persia and has been the commercial and technical center of Persian weaving for centuries, the city that supplied the looms, the master designers and the cartoons for much of the country. Tabriz weavers count fineness in Raj, the number of knots across a gereh of roughly 2.75 in, and the city produces everything from sturdy 40 Raj room-size pieces to 70 Raj collector work. This rug belongs to the durable end of that tradition: a medium-fine, tightly packed wool pile on a cotton foundation, knotted with the hook that Tabriz weavers use and beaten down hard enough that the back shows a crisp, regular grid, visible in the ruler photograph. That density is why a Tabriz of this weight survives decades of traffic in a living room or dining room and still shows full pile in the field. Explore more Persian Tabriz rugs to see how the city's drawing style carries across sizes and palettes.