9'8" x 12'10" Persian Tabriz Rug | Soft Burgundy Floral Medallion | 60 Raj, 400 KPSI, Never Used

A 60 Raj workshop piece from the 2000s that has never been laid in a home, this rug carries roughly 400 knots per square inch of wool and silk on a cotton foundation, and the pile still has the full height and dry shine of a rug that came off the loom, was washed, and then went straight into storage. At 9'8" x 12'10" it sits squarely in the 10x13 Persian rug class, the size that anchors a full seating group without crowding the walls. Every piece ships with our certificate of authenticity recording origin, materials, knot count and measurements.

Design and Motifs

The center holds a 16 lobed ivory medallion built in concentric rings: an 8 petal rosette at the core, a ring of small pink and rose blossoms around it, then a pale celadon band of scrolling vine, then a dark navy collar studded with palmettes. North and south of the medallion sit matching navy pendants with cypress-shaped finials. The field around it is drawn in the Nain manner, a fine all-over lattice of thin curving vines carrying palmettes, lotus heads, feathery saz leaves and small paired birds, with the drawing never repeating in a way you can trace by eye. The 4 corner spandrels are worked in the same ivory and celadon as the medallion and are outlined in a delicate pink, which frames the field like a cartouche. The main border is navy and runs a bold arabesque scroll with leafy palmettes and rosettes, flanked by ivory guard stripes of small connected flowerheads. At 400 knots per square inch the curved line stays true right through the smallest leaf tips, which is the whole point of weaving this drawing at 60 Raj rather than a coarser count.

Soft Burgundy, Navy, Celadon and Ivory

The field is a soft burgundy that reads as a warm raspberry red under lamplight and drops to a deeper claret in shade, and because the vine work is so dense the ground color shows mainly as thin channels between motifs, which keeps the red from ever feeling heavy. Against it, the border is a true inky navy, close to black at the outer edge, and that contrast is what gives the rug its formal, framed look. The medallion and spandrels are ivory washed with a pale green, almost celadon, and the same green reappears through the field in leaves and small rosette centers. Blue runs from soft powder to mid cornflower in the flowerheads, with silk highlights catching the light on petals and stems so that the pattern shifts as you walk past. Accent notes are rose pink, terracotta, soft gold, brown and small touches of black. The fringe and outer guard are clean ivory, the selvage is a matching burgundy, and the palette overall is rich rather than bright, which makes it easy to live with next to cream, walnut, brass and deep green.

Tabriz Weaving at 60 Raj

Tabriz, in the northwest of Persia, measures fineness by Raj, the number of knots counted across one gereh of about 2.75 inches. 40 Raj is ordinary commercial work, 50 Raj is fine, and 60 Raj is the collector step, roughly 400 knots per square inch, which is where the Tabriz workshops start weaving wool together with silk so the master can hold a curved line through tiny floral detail. That is exactly what you see here: a cotton warp and weft beaten tight, a low even clip, silk used in the highlights rather than sprayed across the whole design, and a back so regular that the knot rows read like a printed grid. The back photo with the ruler shows the count honestly. This is a workshop rug rather than a village rug, made over a long stretch of loom time by weavers following a cartoon, and the payoff is a piece that will hold its drawing and its pile through decades of use in a busy room.