9'8" x 12'6" Persian Tabriz Rug | Red Medallion Field with Floral Vase Panels | Woven Cartouche

This is a full room-size 9'8" x 12'6" Persian Tabriz woven on a cotton foundation with a hand-spun wool pile, and it reads exactly the way a good Tabriz should: a saturated red field, a tightly drawn medallion that stays crisp at every level of detail, and a wide navy border that frames the whole thing without crowding it. The pile is even from end to end, the sides and ends are original, and the drawing holds its line through the arches, the vine scrolls and the small corner cartouches. One cartouche in the border carries woven script, the mark of a workshop piece rather than an anonymous commercial weave. At 116 inches by 150 inches it belongs with the room-size and 10x13 Persian rugs that anchor a seating group or a full dining table without compromise. Every rug we ship comes with a certificate of authenticity.

Design and Motifs

The center of the field carries a layered floral medallion built out from an 8 petal rosette, ringed by palmettes, curling leaves and fine tendrils, with pendant finials reaching toward both ends. Around it runs a cusped arch frame in ivory and blue, a drawn line that encloses the inner field and gives the composition a second, softer border inside the first. Above and below the frame sit tall vase and cypress sprays flanked by dense flowering clusters, and small ivory cartouches with figural and cloudband forms mark the 4 corners of the field. A beaded pearl stripe and a running vine guard band separate the red field from the main border, which is navy and filled with alternating palmettes, rosettes and split leaves in gold, rose and sky blue, bracketed by ivory guard stripes carrying their own meander. Nothing in the drawing repeats lazily: the border turns the corners properly, and the two ends mirror each other closely.

Color Palette

The field is a warm brick to tomato red that shifts slightly under raking light, the way good wool dyed in natural tones always does, and it is the reason this piece sits so easily with wood floors and dark furniture. Against it the main border is a deep navy that photographs almost blue-black, and the contrast between the two is what makes the medallion read from across the room. Inside the drawing the palette opens up: ivory and cream in the guard stripes and cartouches, a clear sky blue in the vine work and the arch frame, ochre gold in the leaves, rose pink in the smaller blossoms, and small touches of green and deep burgundy scattered through the palmettes. Buyers working with a warm scheme will find it sits in the same family as our other red and burgundy Persian rugs, though the blue content here is higher than most, which keeps it from reading as a purely red rug.

Tabriz Origin and Weaving Quality

Tabriz sits in northwest Persia and has been the country's workshop city for curvilinear design for centuries, measuring its weaves in Raj, the count of knots per gereh across the width, where 40 Raj is commercial work and the fine looms climb well beyond it. This rug was drawn in that tradition: a cartoon-driven medallion design, a symmetrical layout that holds true over 12'6" of length, and floral detail small enough that it depends on a tight knot count to stay legible. The reverse, shown here with a ruler laid across the weave, is clean and regular, with the pattern fully articulated on the back and a firm cotton warp and weft behind the wool pile. That combination of a dense Tabriz weave and tough highland wool is why these room-size pieces survive decades of real traffic and still show their drawing, and why the woven cartouche in the border matters to a collector.