9'8" x 13'5" Persian Kashan Rug | Grey All-Over Floral Field | Excellent Condition

Most Kashan weavings you meet are built around a lobed medallion on a red field. This 9'8" x 13'5" persian kashan rug takes the harder road: an uninterrupted floral field in soft grey, drawn corner to corner with no medallion to lean on, so the weaver had to hold the repeat true across more than 13 feet of length. The pile is fine wool on a cotton foundation, still full and even underfoot, and the reverse shows tight, regular knot rows with no repairs or reweaves. It is a genuine room-size piece that sits comfortably under a full dining set or a sofa group, and it belongs with the more usable 10x13 Persian rugs rather than the oversize end of the market. Every rug we ship leaves with a certificate of authenticity recording origin, materials and hand-knotted construction.

Design and Motifs

The field carries a classic all-over floral design: a lattice of thin dark vines that curl into tendrils and split into pairs of serrated leaves, carrying broad palmettes, cusped Shah Abbasi blossoms, 8 petal rosettes and small star flowers. The drawing mirrors along both the long and short axes, which is what gives the surface its quiet order once you step back from it. Larger palmettes anchor the centerline and repeat at measured intervals toward the ends, while the spaces between them are filled with tiny buds and curling half-leaves so no part of the ground sits empty. The main border runs a continuous meandering vine with alternating cartouche-shaped blossoms and paired leaves, framed on both sides by a narrow ivory guard stripe of linked scrolling flowers and two thin blue minor bands. The corners resolve cleanly, the vine turning without breaking, which is a fair test of a workshop cartoon drawn properly rather than improvised at the ends.

A Study in Soft Grey, Sage and Blue

The ground is a pale grey with a faint green cast, closer to mushroom and driftwood than to a cool charcoal, and it shifts slightly with the light because the wool takes the dye unevenly in the best way. Against it the vines read almost black-navy, while the flower heads split into three families: deep indigo and navy blue, a chalky sky blue that lifts the whole field, and warm rust to salmon tones with the occasional chocolate brown or olive green leaf for depth. Ivory and cream sit inside many of the rosette centers, sharpening the outlines. The wide main border turns the same palette a shade greener, a soft sage grey carrying navy vinework, rust buds and sky blue leaves, so the frame is darker than the field without going heavy. Buyers hunting grey Persian rugs that still show real dye variation, rather than a flat washed-out modern grey, will recognize what this one is doing.

Kashan: Central Persia's Workshop City

Kashan sits in central Persia, north of Isfahan, and its weaving reputation goes back to the Safavid court workshops that produced the great floral carpets of the 16th century. That workshop habit never left: Kashan pieces are woven on a cartoon, by town weavers working to a set standard, with soft lustrous local wool that takes a sheen as the rug is walked on. It is also the design most Americans have seen without knowing its name. When you watch Shark Tank there is a Persian Kashan on the floor. This example shows the town's strengths clearly, a dense even knot count visible on the reverse, fine outlining that holds a curved line through the vine scrolls, and flat selvages with no drawn-in edges after decades of existence. The condition is excellent throughout, with full pile from end to end and original fringes intact.