9'7" x 12'7" Persian Tabriz Rug | Navy Blue Field, Salmon Medallion | Excellent Condition

Rolled out flat, this 9'7" x 12'7" Persian Tabriz reads as one continuous field of ink-dark blue carrying a lattice of salmon and ivory vinework, with a single starburst medallion anchoring the center. The wool pile stands at a trim 3/8", dense and even underfoot, with the drawing still crisp from selvage to selvage and both end finishes intact, which is why it grades excellent. At 115" by 151" it lands squarely in the most useful room-size bracket there is, and buyers shopping 10x13 Persian rugs will find it covers a full seating group or a dining table with the chairs pulled back. It ships with a certificate of authenticity recording origin, materials and hand-knotted construction.

Design and Motifs

The center holds a rounded starburst medallion built in concentric rings: a small rosette core, a ring of cusped sage and ivory palmettes, then a salmon ground studded with 8 heart-shaped cartouches that radiate outward like petals. Above and below it, matching trefoil pendants reach into the field. What surrounds the medallion is the real work: a continuous arabesque of curling vine, each stem ending in a palmette, a lanceolate leaf or a small flower head, drawn with the flowing curved line that only a workshop loom can hold over 12'7" of length. The 4 corners carry salmon spandrels filled with the same vocabulary at reduced scale. A navy main border runs ivory vine and open rosettes, framed by sage-green guard stripes of linked florets and a fine ribbon minor border, with the outer edge closing in near-black wool.

Navy Blue, Salmon and Ivory in the Palette

The field is a deep navy that shades toward black under low light and opens into a clear midnight blue under a lamp, one of the reasons navy blue Persian rugs sit so easily in rooms with dark wood or heavy upholstery. Against it, the vinework is drawn in a warm salmon that carries through to coral and soft rose in the medallion ground and the corner spandrels. Ivory does the outlining, keeping every stem legible instead of letting the pattern dissolve into the dark ground, and it also fills the guard stripes. Sage and olive green appear in the palmettes and leaf tips, with small hits of pale blue inside the medallion cartouches. The near-black outer border pulls the whole composition tight. Read together, navy, salmon, ivory and black give a formal rug that still feels warm rather than severe.

Tabriz: Workshop 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 full cartoons on the loom and measuring fineness by the Raj, the count of knots per gereh across the width. That cartoon system is what allows a design like this one to repeat its arabesque symmetrically across a rug of this scale without the pattern drifting. The knots are tied on a cotton foundation and the wool is clipped low, so the back reads clean and the drawing stays sharp, as the ruler shot of the reverse shows. Tabriz wool takes dye deeply and wears hard, and a low-clipped Tabriz of this size is the kind of rug that spends decades in a main room and still holds its line.