9'9" x 13'7" Persian Tabriz Rug | Wool & Silk Burgundy Floral Medallion | Approx. 400 KPSI, Never Used

This is a 2000s workshop Tabriz that has never spent a day on a floor, and you can see it in the pile: the wool still stands straight, the silk highlights still flash, and the ends are clean and even. It measures 9'9" x 13'7", which puts it in the 10 x 14 Persian rugs bracket, big enough to sit under a full seating group with the back legs of every chair on the rug. At roughly 400 knots per square inch the drawing is fine enough to hold true curves in the vine work rather than the stepped lines you get from a coarser weave. Every rug we ship carries a certificate of authenticity recording origin, materials, size and knot count.

Design and Motifs

The center holds a layered star medallion built in rings: a small rosette core, a band of scrolling arabesque, then a scalloped outer frame with pointed tips, finished with a slender pendant at each end. The field around it is a continuous vine system carrying lotus palmettes, open roses, small rosettes and feathery saz leaves, all drawn on a curve and worked in enough shades to keep the repeat from ever looking mechanical. Four corner spandrels in ivory answer the medallion and frame the field in a broad lobed shape. The main border runs a steady rhythm of large palmettes and flowering sprays separated by curling leaves, and it is flanked by narrow guard stripes of small blossoms and meander vine that tighten the whole composition at the edges.

A Burgundy Field Framed in Pale Green

The field is a deep burgundy, closer to wine than to the bright brick red of a village weave, and it reads darker or lighter depending on which way the pile is brushed. Against it the flowers come up in ivory, cream, powder blue, dusty rose and a soft sage, with fine outlines in charcoal and aubergine that keep each blossom separate. The medallion shifts from a pale celadon outer frame through a salmon ring into an ivory and blush core, where the silk in the pile catches the light and makes the center look lit from inside. The main border is a pale green, cooler and quieter than the field, carrying pink and peach palmettes with small teal and blue details, and the guard stripes run in salmon and soft gold. The ivory cotton fringe at both ends closes the palette off cleanly.

Tabriz Weaving and the Raj System

Tabriz sits in the northwest of Persia and has been the country's most organized weaving city for centuries, working from full cartoons with a designer, a master weaver and a workshop rather than from memory. Fineness there is counted in Raj, the number of knots across a gereh of about 2.75 inches: 40 Raj is commercial work, 50 is fine, and 60 Raj, roughly 400 knots per square inch, is where a Tabriz becomes a collector piece. This rug sits at that level, which is exactly what the curvilinear drawing demands, since the flowing vine and the tight arabesque inside the medallion collapse at a lower count. The pile blends wool with silk on a cotton foundation, the silk reserved for highlights in the medallion, spandrels and flower heads, and the weave is beaten down tight enough to give a firm, flat handle that will sit well under furniture for decades.