9'6" x 13' Persian Tabriz Rug | Red Field, Star Medallion, Como Green and Ivory | Excellent Condition

A full room size piece at 9'6" x 13', this hand-knotted Persian Tabriz carries a deep red field, a bright star medallion and a wide navy border drawn with the kind of steady, curved line that separates city weaving from village work. The pile is wool at 3/8", knotted onto a cotton foundation, and the surface still has the even nap and crisp outlines of a rug that has been kept rather than walked on. The photographs show it flat on the showroom floor, from above, at an angle, and from the back where the knot density and clean fringe are visible. Condition is excellent throughout, with no repairs, no thin spots and no color run. Every rug we sell ships with a certificate of authenticity identifying origin, materials and construction, and a piece in this format sits comfortably inside the popular range of 10x13 Persian rugs.

Design and Motifs

The center holds a many pointed star medallion built in concentric rings: a small navy core with a rosette at its heart, then a ring of ivory lancet petals, then an outer halo of soft green foliage that fades into the field. Two slender pendants hang above and below the medallion on the long axis. Around all of that runs a dense all-over field of curling vine, palmettes, split leaves and small rosettes, every element outlined so the drawing reads clearly even from standing height. Ivory spandrels fill the 4 corners of the field with scrolling arabesque and anchor the composition. The main border is a broad navy band of alternating palmettes and flowering stems, flanked by ivory guard stripes carrying a repeating floral chain and a narrow teal minor stripe. The corner photograph shows how carefully the border was turned, with the pattern resolving at each corner instead of being cut short.

The Red, Como Green and Ivory Palette

The field is a true crimson red, saturated and even from end to end, with no abrash banding. Against it the Como green reads as a soft blue leaning teal, used for the medallion halo, the leaf work and hundreds of tiny blossoms scattered across the ground, and it is the color that keeps the red from feeling heavy. Ivory does the structural work: the medallion petals, the corner spandrels and the two guard stripes are all drawn in a warm cream that frames the field and lifts the pattern. Deep navy grounds the wide border and the medallion core, giving the outer edge real weight. Smaller accents appear throughout in rose pink, olive, soft brown, pale sky blue and an occasional touch of saffron yellow in the border flowers. Under lamplight the wool takes a quiet sheen and the reds warm; in daylight the greens come forward and the rug reads cooler.

Tabriz Weaving in 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 rather than memory, which is exactly why a curved medallion of this complexity comes out symmetrical across 13 feet. Tabriz workshops grade their weave in Raj, the count of knots per gereh across the width, and the discipline of that system shows here in the tight, regular back and the fine outlines around every leaf and petal. The Turkish knot used in the region gives the pile a firm, upright stand that holds a pattern for generations under real use, and the local wool takes dye deeply, which is why the red stays this even. This piece is a workshop rug in the classic Tabriz floral idiom, drawn with precision, finished with a flat selvage and clean cotton fringe, and sized for a formal room where the whole design can be seen at once.