9'9" x 15'10" Persian Tabriz Rug | Red Floral Medallion | Oversize Room Size

At 9'9" x 15'10" this Tabriz is a true floor-filling piece, hand-knotted in wool on a cotton foundation and drawn in the curvilinear court style that made the city famous. The field is a deep, saturated red carrying a dense all-over vine, and the whole composition is anchored by a single starburst medallion of gold, green and salmon. The pile is even from end to end, the ends and sides are secure, and the rug reads as one continuous drawing rather than a repeated pattern, which is what separates workshop weaving from village work. It is a natural fit for the rooms that most buyers of oversize Persian rugs are trying to cover: a long living room, a formal dining room with the chairs pulled back, or an open plan main floor. Every rug we ship carries a certificate of authenticity confirming origin, materials and hand-knotted construction.

Design and Motifs

The center holds a large radiating medallion built in rings: a navy and green core, a salmon and cream petal ring around it, and an outer crown of gold lobed petals that throws the medallion forward off the red ground. Slender pendants rise and fall from the top and bottom of the medallion, each finished with a small cypress-shaped finial, and the field between them is packed with palmettes, curling serrated leaves, rosettes and fine tendrils that never repeat in a way the eye can catch. The 4 corners carry ivory spandrels filled with the same vine work at a smaller scale, giving the red field a clear lobed outline. Framing all of it is a wide soft green main border of navy cartouches and palmettes linked by salmon arabesques, set between several narrow guard stripes of rosettes on ivory and blue. It is a classic medallion and corner layout executed with a lot of drawing skill.

A Deep Red Field Framed in Soft Green

The dominant color is a warm brick red with real depth to it, the kind that shifts slightly lighter or darker as you walk the length of the rug and the pile changes direction. Against that red sit the cooler tones: a muted sage green in the main border and throughout the medallion, midnight navy in the cartouches and in the small floral heads scattered across the field, and clean ivory in the spandrels and guard stripes. Gold and buttery cream light up the outer petals of the medallion, while salmon and soft peach appear in the arabesques and in the smaller blossoms, softening the contrast between the red and the green. Touches of olive, rose and pale sky blue turn up in the leaf work. The overall effect is rich rather than loud, and the red and green pairing sits well with walnut and oak floors, cream walls and leather furniture.

Tabriz Weaving in Northwest Persia

Tabriz sits in the northwest of Persia and has been the country's most consistent commercial weaving center for well over a century, working from a drawn cartoon on the loom so that curved lines, flowing vines and precise medallions can be reproduced across a piece this large without the pattern drifting. Weavers there count fineness in Raj, the number of knots across a gereh of roughly 2.75 inches, and the back of this rug, shown against a ruler, is regular and tightly packed with clean rows and no slubs, which is what you want to see before you commit to a room-size piece. That density is also why Persian Tabriz rugs hold up under furniture and traffic for generations, and if you want to understand how knots per square inch translate into detail and durability, that guide is worth the five minutes.