9'7" x 12'6" Persian Turkmen Rug | Ocean Green Bokhara Gul Field | Brand New, Never Used

Turkmen weavers almost never leave the madder red field behind, which is exactly why this piece stops you. The whole ground has been dyed an ocean green, and the familiar rows of guls sit on it in red, ivory, black and walnut brown as though the color scheme had been turned inside out. It is a tribal drawing executed at room scale, 9'7" x 12'6", with a thick multi band red border holding the field in place on all 4 sides. The pile is a firm 3/8" wool on a cotton foundation, knotted entirely by hand, and the rug has never been on a floor. Every piece we sell ships with a certificate of authenticity, and this one is large enough to serve as the anchor of a main room while staying squarely in the tribal, rather than formal, register. Buyers comparing 10x13 Persian rugs will find very few in this size with a green ground.

Design and Motifs

The field carries the classic Turkmen all over repeat: elongated, flattened octagonal guls set 7 across the width and marching down the length in strict rows, each one quartered into red, ivory and black compartments with small hooked arms reaching out from the center. Between the gul rows sit cruciform secondary motifs in black and red, the little stepped crosses that fill the negative space and keep the lattice reading as a continuous grid rather than isolated medallions. The drawing is entirely geometric, built from straight lines and stepped diagonals with no curve anywhere, which is the discipline of a tribal loom. Around it runs a wide border system of stacked narrow bands: latch hook chevrons, running diamonds and small reciprocal triangles in red, black and ivory, with the outermost guard band finishing against a plain red selvage. Flat woven kilim ends and an ivory fringe close both ends, visible in the back and detail photographs. If you like geometric Persian rugs, this is the pattern language in its purest form.

The Ocean Green and Red Color Story

The green is the whole point. It is a deep ocean green with an olive cast, slightly uneven across the field in the way hand dyed wool always is, so that light moving across the pile shifts it from sage to a darker bottle tone. Against it the guls read in a bright tomato red with black outlining, their inner quarters picked out in clean ivory and a soft walnut brown that warms the whole surface. The borders abandon the green entirely and go to a saturated brick red, so the rug has a strong internal contrast: a cool green lake in the middle, a hot red frame around it. Black is used sparingly and only as a drawing line, which keeps the geometry crisp without making the rug heavy. The combination is unusual enough that it works against walls most red rugs fight with, including warm greys, clay, cream and natural oak. Shoppers hunting for green Persian rugs in a true room size rarely find a tribal piece with this much green in it.

Turkmen Weaving in Northeast Persia

Turkmen weavers of the Khorasan region in northeast Persia have carried the gul design for generations, each clan keeping its own version of the octagonal tribal emblem and passing it from mother to daughter without a paper cartoon. Their work sits alongside Persian Baluch rugs from the same corner of the country, and the two traditions share a vocabulary of tight geometry, dark grounds and dense, hard wearing wool. The weave here is firm and even, the knots pulled down tight as you can see on the reverse, and the 3/8" pile has been clipped low so the pattern stays sharp rather than blurring. Wool from this region is coarse in the best sense, springy and full of lanolin, which is why Turkmen pieces survive decades of real use and only improve in sheen. Reaching 9'7" x 12'6" on a tribal loom is itself an achievement, since village and nomadic looms are usually set for smaller formats, and a piece this large in unused condition is uncommon.