9'9" x 19'9" Persian Tabriz Rug | Ivory Allover Floral Field | 60 Raj Approx. 400 KPSI

This is a gallery length Tabriz in the proportion collectors actually look for, 9'9" x 19'9", woven long enough to carry a full great room or a formal dining table with chairs pulled out and still hold the pattern in balance. The field is ivory, drawn edge to edge with a fine floral scroll, and a single salmon rose star medallion sits dead center with matching pendants above and below it. At roughly 400 knots per square inch the drawing stays crisp at this scale, which is the hardest thing to achieve on a piece this long. It is in excellent, never used condition, and among oversize Persian rugs a clean ivory ground of this size is genuinely difficult to find. Every rug ships with a certificate of authenticity.

Design and Motifs

The center holds an 8 lobed star medallion built in tiers: an outer ring of salmon rose petals filled with small rosettes and knotwork, a slate blue inner disc, and a tiny ivory rosette at the exact heart. Slender pendant cartouches drop from the top and bottom of the medallion, and the 4 corners carry deep green spandrel cartouches that repeat the same palmette vocabulary in miniature. Around all of that runs a true allover floral design, curling acanthus leaves, split palmettes, lotus heads and thin tendrils that never quite repeat. The main border is broad and formal, a scrolling vine loaded with alternating palmettes and blossoms, framed by narrow reciprocal guard stripes and an inner meander of small rosettes. Ivory cotton fringe finishes both ends.

Ivory Ground With a Sage Green Border

The field is a warm ivory, closer to unbleached cream than to stark white, which keeps the rug from feeling cold in a large room. Against it the border reads soft sage to olive green, a muted, slightly dusty tone that photographs as celadon in daylight and as gray green under lamps. The medallion supplies the warmth: salmon rose, terracotta and clay pink, stepped down into a slate blue center with a small band of true navy. Scattered through the scrollwork are sea green leaves, powder blue blossoms, soft gold stems, rust buds and dark charcoal outlining that gives the drawing its definition. The overall effect is quiet and antique looking rather than bright, a palette that sits comfortably with wood floors, stone and neutral upholstery.

Tabriz Weaving and Quality

Tabriz sits in the northwest of Persia and has been the commercial and artistic head of Persian weaving for centuries. Its workshops grade fineness by Raj, the number of knots counted across a gereh of about 2.75 inches: 40 Raj is ordinary commercial goods, 50 is fine, and 60 Raj, roughly 400 knots per square inch, is where a rug crosses into collector territory. This piece is woven at that 60 Raj level on a tight cotton foundation with a fine wool pile, clipped low so the vine work stays legible. The back photograph shows the knot nodes running straight and even with no bowing or crowding, which on a 19'9" length means the loom was kept in tension from the first row to the last. That is workshop discipline, not village work, and it is the reason a rug this long still lies flat and square.