9'9" x 12'9" Persian Tabriz Rug | Red Field with Navy Medallion | Excellent Condition

This is a full room-size Persian Tabriz woven in the classic city format: a deep red field, a navy lobed medallion at the center, and heavy navy corner spandrels that frame the whole composition. The pile is 3/8" wool on a cotton foundation, still even edge to edge with no low spots, and the hand is firm rather than floppy, which is what you want in a rug this size. At 9'9" x 12'9" it covers a standard living room wall to wall with furniture sitting on it, and it sits squarely in the most requested band of 10x13 Persian rugs. Every rug we ship leaves with a certificate of authenticity documenting origin, materials and hand-knotted construction.

Design and Motifs

The drawing here is busier and more inventive than a plain medallion layout. The eight-lobed navy medallion carries an ivory star center with 4 rosettes set around it, and it floats over a field packed with an all-over floral repeat: curling serrated leaves, palmettes, small vases, cypress forms and tiny latch-hook filler figures that keep the red ground moving in every direction. The 4 corner spandrels in navy repeat the same vocabulary at larger scale, with ivory outlining that separates them cleanly from the field. The main border is navy, drawn with alternating vase-and-palmette cartouches and flowering shrubs, flanked by narrow rosette guard stripes on both sides. The close-up photographs show how tightly the small elements are articulated, with a clear curvilinear line rather than the blocky angular drawing of village weaving.

A Red Field Read Against Navy and Ivory

The field is a true crimson red, warm and slightly tomato-toned under direct light, cooling toward burgundy where the pile leans away from the camera. Navy blue does all the structural work: medallion outline, spandrels, main border, so the eye reads the layout instantly from across a room. Ivory is the third voice, used for the medallion center, the outlining of the corners, and the small guard-stripe rosettes, and it is what keeps the red and navy from turning heavy. Inside the field the accent palette is wider than it first appears, with rust and terracotta in the medallion interior, teal and soft sea green in the leaves, pale pink in the small blossoms, and touches of soft gold and camel scattered through the vases and palmettes. Against a wood floor the red goes rich and deep; against a pale floor the ivory and teal accents step forward.

Tabriz Weaving in Northwest Persia

Tabriz sits in the far northwest of Persia and has been the country's most commercially important weaving city for centuries, the place where the cartoon-drawn, workshop-organized approach to rug making was refined. Tabriz weavers count fineness in Raj, the number of knots across a gereh of about 2.75 in, and they work on a taut cotton foundation with a short, closely clipped wool pile, which is exactly what this piece shows in the back photograph: straight rows, tight knot nodes and no slack in the weave. That combination of a hard foundation and a short pile is the reason Tabriz rugs hold their drawing for generations and take heavy furniture without crushing. Browse more Persian Tabriz rugs if you want to compare palettes and knot counts in this group.