9'8" x 13'2" Persian Kashan Rug | Signed All-Over Floral Field | Excellent Condition

This is a signed Persian Kashan rug in a room-filling 9'8" x 13'2", hand-knotted in wool on a cotton foundation and carrying a small woven cartouche in the upper border that names the weaver or the workshop responsible for it. The drawing is all-over rather than medallion-led, which is the harder of the two Kashan formats to pull off at this scale, because every vine has to keep its rhythm across nearly 13 feet without a central anchor to hide behind. The pile stands at a trim 3/8", low enough to hold the fine detail crisp and to sit flat under furniture, and the rug is in excellent condition with even pile from end to end. Like every rug we sell, it ships with a certificate of authenticity confirming origin, materials and hand-knotted construction. Buyers searching 10x13 Persian rugs rarely find a signed city piece in a light ground at this size.

Design and Motifs

The field is covered edge to edge with a classic Kashan vine system: curling acanthus leaves, split palmettes, lotus heads, and small five and eight petal blossoms strung along thin stems that mirror precisely across both the long and the short axis. At the exact center sits a small ivory rosette, no larger than a saucer, from which the drawing radiates outward in a star of leaf tips and shaded palmettes, a quiet nod to the medallion format inside an all-over floral design. The 4 corners carry pendant sprays and tiny vases that repeat the field motifs in miniature. Framing all of it is a wide ivory main border of alternating palmettes and scrolling arabesque, flanked by 4 narrow guard stripes of running vine and rosettes, with a final light outer band that keeps the perimeter from closing in. The corner resolutions are properly turned, not simply cut off, which is the mark of a drafted cartoon and a workshop weaver.

A Light Field of Ivory, Sage and Blue

The ground is the rarest part of this rug. Instead of the usual Kashan red, the field is a pale, dusty ivory with a soft sage-green cast, the sort of tone that reflects window light rather than absorbing it and makes a large room feel wider. Drawn over it are two distinct blues: a deep indigo navy that outlines the leaves and holds the composition together, and a lighter sky blue that fills the petals and shading. Warm accents come from rust and terracotta palmettes, a soft camel and olive in the leaf work, and small points of brick red at the flower hearts, with pure ivory used for the blossom highlights and the main border ground. On the reverse, where the wool has never met sunlight, the blues are noticeably more vivid, confirming natural dye depth rather than surface tint. The overall effect is cool and luminous, easy to live with beside grey, cream, walnut or blue-toned furnishings.

Kashan: Central Persia and the Court Workshop Tradition

Kashan sits in central Persia, north of Isfahan, and its looms trace back to the Safavid court workshops that produced some of the most celebrated carpets ever woven. The town's reputation rests on three things: soft lustrous local wool, a disciplined curvilinear drawing style, and a knot fine enough to render a leaf tip without breaking it into steps. A signature cartouche, like the one woven into the border of this piece, means the rug left a named workshop rather than an anonymous village loom, and workshops sign only what they are willing to be judged on. Kashan is also the most quietly familiar Persian weave in America: when you watch Shark Tank there is a Persian Kashan on the floor. This example, at 9'8" x 13'2" with a low even pile and a light field, is the version collectors chase and decorators struggle to source.