9'6" x 13' Persian Kashan Rug | Deep Red Floral Field | Ivory and Navy Medallion, Excellent Condition

This is a full room size piece in the classic central Persian formula: a deep red field packed edge to edge with flowering vinework, a small ivory and navy medallion anchoring the center, and a broad midnight border holding the whole drawing together. At 9'6" x 13' it belongs to the most useful format we sell, the group buyers search as 10x13 Persian rugs, large enough to sit every piece of a seating group on the wool rather than floating furniture on the edges. The pile is dense and even, the ends and sides are intact with clean ivory fringe, and the back shows regular, disciplined knot rows over a cotton foundation. It is in excellent condition throughout and ships with a certificate of authenticity. If you are new to the type, our guide to Persian Kashan rugs explains what separates a proper city weave from the copies.

Design and Motifs

The layout is a lobed center medallion with matching pendants top and bottom, set against an allover field of curving vine that never repeats in an obvious way. Inside the medallion sits an ivory cartouche framing a small blue rosette, ringed by tiny palmettes and serrated leaves. The 4 corners carry ivory spandrels drawn with the same vocabulary, so the eye reads the field as a garden that has simply been cropped by the border. The main border is a navy ground carrying alternating palmettes and rosettes joined by a thin scrolling vine, flanked on both sides by narrow guard stripes: a reciprocal ivory meander, a slate blue floral ribbon, and a fine barber pole outline that keeps the edges crisp. Look closely at the field and you will find dozens of individual blossoms, curled sickle leaves and small bird-like split palmettes tucked between stems, the sort of detail only a city workshop attempts at this scale.

Deep Red, Navy, Ivory and Green

The field reads as a deep, slightly raspberry red, warmer than burgundy and clearly cooler than brick, and it shifts noticeably with the nap: from one end the ground looks saturated crimson, from the other it lifts toward rose. Against it, the main border and the medallion frame are a near-black navy that gives the design its weight and makes the ivory elements jump forward. Ivory appears three times, in the medallion center, in the 4 corner spandrels, and as thin outlining that traces the vine, which is what keeps a busy field from turning muddy. Cornflower and slate blue fill many of the rosettes and appear again in the guard stripes; olive and sage green run through the leaves and stems; soft rose pink, warm camel and small touches of saffron gold punctuate the blossoms and the outer guard band. The wool takes light well, so the palette looks richest in a room with lamps rather than flat overhead lighting.

Kashan Weaving and Quality

Kashan sits in central Persia, north of Isfahan, and its looms trace back to the Safavid court workshops that set the standard for the curved-line medallion rug. Local wool is unusually soft and lustrous, which is why a Kashan tends to glow rather than sit flat, and why the type has become the default image of a Persian rug in American interiors: when you watch Shark Tank there is a Persian Kashan on the floor. This example is woven on a cotton foundation with a wool pile at a knot count fine enough to hold the curved vine and the small floral details without breaking them into steps, and it is beaten down firmly, so the handle is solid rather than floppy. That combination of tight city weave, honest wool and a proven classical drawing is what makes a Kashan of this size a rug you buy once and keep under the dining table or the sofa for decades.