9'8" x 12'3" Persian Turkoman Rug | Turquoise Green Gul Field | 1970s, Perfect Condition

Turkoman weavers almost never leave the deep madder red ground of their tradition, which is exactly why this room size piece stops people. The field here is a clear turquoise green, and the rows of rust burgundy guls sit on it like stones set in enamel. It measures 9'8" x 12'3", was woven in the 1970s in 100% hand-knotted wool on a cotton foundation, and the pile is full and even from selvage to selvage with no wear, no repairs and no color run. Among Persian tribal rugs of this age, a piece in this condition and this palette is genuinely uncommon. Every rug we ship travels with a certificate of authenticity recording origin, age, materials and knot construction.

Design and Motifs

The field is an all-over gul design, the signature Turkoman device: elongated diamond and hexagonal guls arranged in tight offset rows, each one carrying a stepped ivory hook motif and a small navy core. Between the rows sit secondary cruciform minor guls in burgundy and navy, so the whole surface reads as a lattice rather than a scatter of separate figures. Count across the width and the drawing stays true row after row, which tells you the weaver worked to a fixed count rather than by eye alone. The surround is built in layers: a wide main border of ivory and pale blue cartouches holding rosettes, framed on both sides by narrow reciprocal barber-pole stripes, then a burgundy and navy outer guard with a running latch-hook meander. The ends finish in flatwoven bands of geometric zigzag before the fringe, the traditional Turkoman treatment.

A Turquoise Green Field Against Rust and Ivory

Color is the whole story on this rug. The ground is a saturated turquoise green, closer to sea green than to teal, and the wool takes the light so that the tone shifts between a cooler blue-green in the pile direction and a warmer jade against it. Against that ground the guls are rust burgundy, deep and slightly brick-toned rather than cherry, outlined in near-black navy that sharpens every edge. Ivory does the work of lifting the design: the hooked motifs inside each gul, the cartouche panels of the main border and the long fringe all read as clean cream. Navy blue runs through the minor guls and the inner guards, tying the borders back to the field. If you have been hunting green Persian rugs that still carry classic tribal drawing rather than a washed-out modern palette, this is the combination that is hard to find.

Turkoman Weaving in Northeastern Persia

Turkoman weaving belongs to the Turkmen tribes of the steppe country in the far northeast of Persia, above Gonbad and along the Gorgan plain, and the gul is their tribal emblem rather than a decorator's pattern. Each clan kept its own version, passed down mother to daughter, which is why Turkoman rugs stay so disciplined: the drawing is inherited, not invented. The weave is tight and low, the wool is springy highland fleece that resists crushing, and the flatwoven end panels are woven on the same loom as the pile. At 9'8" x 12'3" this sits squarely in the 9x12 Persian rugs range, a true room size that anchors a seating group without crowding it, and at roughly 50 years old it has already proven the durability that Turkoman weaving is known for.