9'8" x 13'2" Persian Yazd Rug | Signed Cartouche | All Over Floral on Blush Beige Field

This 9'8" x 13'2" Persian Yazd rug is a signed piece, hand-knotted in wool on a cotton foundation with a 3/8" pile that still stands full and even from selvage to selvage. There is no central medallion, so the field reads as one continuous garden and stays calm under a sofa or a dining table instead of fighting the furniture for attention. A small woven cartouche at one end names the weaving, which is always a good sign on a room-size piece of this era. It ships with our certificate of authenticity and falls squarely in the 10x13 Persian rug range that most formal rooms are built around.

Design and Motifs

The field is a classic mirrored all over floral design, drawn symmetrically along the long axis rather than around a center point. Thin red and blue vine scrolls run the length of the rug and carry open palmettes, 8 petal rosettes, tulip heads and long serrated leaves, with small cloudband curls tucked between the larger blossoms. The close-up shows how deliberately each flower is outlined, usually in dark navy, which keeps the pattern crisp instead of letting it blur into the ground. The border system is generous for a village-to-workshop piece: a wide ivory main band of alternating palmettes and leafy sprays, flanked by navy floral guard stripes, then narrower blush and ivory bands with repeating buds, and finally a fine outer stripe. The signature cartouche breaks the ivory band at one end, framed in navy outline exactly as the old workshops did it.

Color: Blush Beige, Swan Ivory and Indigo

The ground is the rarest part of this rug: a pale blush pink that settles into warm taupe beige where the wool catches the light, the kind of soft neutral that almost never turns up at 13 feet long. Against it the drawing works in three strong voices. Deep madder red carries the big palmettes and the flower hearts, true indigo navy draws the vine work, the outlines and the guard stripes, and a clear light sky blue fills the smaller rosettes and leaf tips so the pattern never gets heavy. The main border is swan ivory, bright enough to frame the softer field and pull the whole rug together. Small touches of soft green and a dull gold appear in a few leaves and flower centers. All of it is wool dyed color, so the tones vary slightly across a given band the way hand-dyed yarn always does, and that gentle movement is what separates it from a printed look.

Yazd Weaving and the "Najaf Abad" Cartouche

Yazd sits on the edge of the central Persian desert and has woven in the Safavid court idiom for generations, borrowing its floral vocabulary from the ateliers to the northwest while keeping its own tight, hard-wearing handle. That relationship is easy to see here: the vine drawing and palmette shapes belong to the same family as classic Persian Isfahan rugs, but the wool is heavier, the knotting is built for traffic, and the piece is meant to be lived on rather than admired from a distance. The reverse photograph shows the knot lines running straight and level with no bellying or pull, which is how a rug this size stays flat for decades. The cartouche reads "Najaf Abad", the town naming itself in the border, and a woven place name like that marks a piece cut from a proper drawn cartoon rather than from memory.