9'9" x 13' Persian Kashan Rug | Ivory All Over Floral Field | Fine Wool, Excellent Condition

This 9'9" x 13' rug is a quiet, confident piece of central Persian weaving: an ivory field carrying an unbroken all over floral lattice, a small rosette holding the exact center, and a blush border that lifts the whole thing without shouting. The wool is fine and the 3/8" pile is clipped low, which is why the drawing stays legible right across 13 feet of length rather than blurring into pattern. If you want a formal Persian Kashan that reads as light and neutral in the room but rewards a close look, this is that rug. It sits squarely in the 10x13 Persian rugs class, the size most American living and dining rooms are actually built for, and it ships with a certificate of authenticity confirming it as a hand-knotted rug made in Persia.

Design and Motifs

The field is a true all over design, built from thin curving vines that link split palmettes, fan shaped leaves, rosettes and tight little buds in a repeat that mirrors perfectly across both axes. At the exact center the vines gather into an 8 petal rosette with a single red eye, a restrained nod to the medallion format rather than a full lobed medallion, so the eye travels outward instead of stopping in the middle. Four broad spandrel-like clusters anchor the 4 corners of the field, and the whole composition is framed by a triple border: a wide main band of alternating palmettes and cypress-like sprays on a blush ground, flanked by narrow reciprocal guard stripes of small hooked florets, then a fine outer meander. Look at the corner photograph and you can see the border turn resolved cleanly, the pattern meeting itself at the miter instead of being cut off, which is the mark of a properly drawn cartoon and a weaver who followed it.

The Ivory, Green and Blue Palette

The ground is ivory, closer to warm cream than stark white, and it carries a faint pearly sheen where the light rakes across the low pile. Drawing is done in two registers: a deep inky blue, almost navy, outlines the vines and the larger palmettes and gives the field its structure, while a muted sage to olive green fills leaves and the bodies of the bigger blossoms. Scattered through that framework are small hits of pale sky blue in the petals, soft brick and rust red in the flower hearts, and occasional mustard and charcoal dots that keep the repeat from reading flat. The main border shifts to a blush beige ground, a warm tone that sits between the ivory field and the reds, and the guard stripes return to ivory so the borders step down in value rather than clamping a hard frame around the design. The overall effect is low contrast and calm, the kind of palette that works over pale oak, limestone or a dark stained floor without fighting the furniture.

Kashan: The Town and the Weaving Quality

Kashan sits in central Persia, north of Isfahan on the edge of the desert, and it has been a weaving town since the Safavid court workshops of the 16th century. That workshop lineage is why Kashan pieces are drawn rather than improvised: cartoons, curved vine work, symmetrical fields and borders that turn the corner correctly. Local wool is soft and lustrous, and here it has been spun fine and clipped to 3/8", tight enough for the thin outlines in the field to hold their shape, over a cotton foundation that keeps a 13 foot length flat and stable. Kashan is also the most recognizable Persian design in America, largely because it is everywhere in the background of daily life: when you watch Shark Tank there is a Persian Kashan on the floor. This example is the lighter, more neutral end of that tradition, with an even full pile and original fringe, and it is shown in the photographs with a ruler laid across the weave so you can judge the density of the knotting for yourself.