9'8" x 12'6" Persian Kashmar Rug | Panel Garden Design with 8 Petal Star Tiles | Signed Cartouche

At 9'8" x 12'6" this Kashmar covers a full living room or a dining table with all 8 chairs pulled out, and it does it without a single dominant medallion competing for attention. The field is a continuous mosaic of ivory, apricot and blue panels, each one a small self contained garden, so the eye keeps moving instead of settling in the center. It is hand-knotted in wool on a cotton foundation with a 3/8" pile that still stands full and even edge to edge, and one border cartouche carries a woven signature in navy script, which is not something you often see on a piece of this scale. Buyers shopping 10x13 Persian rugs rarely find one this busy in pattern and this calm in tone at the same time. Every rug we ship leaves with a certificate of authenticity.

Design and Motifs

The layout is the classic Kashmar panel garden, a grid of interlocking 8 petal star tiles and stepped lozenges drawn so that each panel shares its outline with its neighbor. Inside the stars sit small rosettes ringed by tulips, carnations and curling leaf sprays; the ivory panels between them hold paired flowering branches that mirror each other across a fine red outline, with hooked Greek key brackets pinning the 4 corners of every tile. Because the repeat runs uninterrupted from selvage to selvage this reads as a true all over panel design, which means furniture can sit anywhere on it without burying a focal point. The main border answers the field with a procession of quatrefoil rosettes on slate blue, flanked by narrow plum and ivory guard stripes and a pink meander that frames the whole rug 4 times over.

A Multi-Color Palette Built on Ivory, Terracotta and Slate Blue

The ground tone is a warm undyed ivory, and every other color is measured against it. Terracotta and soft apricot fill roughly a third of the star tiles and give the field its warmth; cobalt blue fills another group of stars with pale sky blue lattice work inside them, and the contrast between those two blues is what keeps the grid from flattening out. Brick red appears only in small doses, in the rosette centers and the thin outlines that separate one panel from the next, while olive green runs through the leaf sprays and a little soft gold turns up in the palmettes. The borders shift the mood cooler: a dusty slate blue main band, an aubergine and plum inner stripe, and dark navy outlines that hold the whole composition together. Seen as a room, the effect is neutral from a distance and richly multi-colored up close.

Kashmar, Khorasan, and the Weaving Behind It

Kashmar is a town in Khorasan, the northeastern province of Persia, working in the same regional tradition as the larger city looms of Persian Mashad rugs a few hours to the northeast. Khorasan wool is long stapled and takes dye deeply, which is why the terracotta and cobalt here look saturated rather than chalky, and why a 3/8" pile at this age still has bounce underfoot. The back photograph tells the rest: straight, tightly packed rows of knots on a cotton warp, clean color separation with no bleed, and a panel grid that holds its lines across nearly 13 feet of length, which takes a careful cartoon and a disciplined weaver. A signed cartouche in the border marks it as workshop rather than village work, and that is the level of drawing and finishing you are looking at throughout.