
Tabriz Mahi 50 Raj | Exclusive | With Silk · with silk
234 × 170 cm
8.340 €










3.750 €
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This is a Tabriz runner, 250 x 58 cm (8'2" x 1'11"), from the Persian city long regarded as the benchmark for disciplined, workshop-drawn design. Tabriz weavers are known above all for the symmetric knot and for a command of the central medallion that has become shorthand for Persian luxury. This piece carries the signature of the Pirozian workshop.
The field is a deep, almost black-navy, filled edge to edge with a small-scale Mahi lattice that repeats without a break along the whole length. Down the centre runs a chain of scalloped ivory medallions, each holding a touch of camel and gold at its heart, with small teal-blue florets scattered between them. Toward the ends the medallions appear to draw in slightly, giving the sequence a quiet sense of perspective as the eye follows it down the runner. A wide ivory border, patterned with small florets and geometric motifs, closes the design, held in by thin rust-red and navy guard stripes.
Tabriz work is knotted to a drawn plan rather than from memory, and here the density runs to 441,000-500,000 knots per square metre, in wool with a silk content that lets the finest lines - the scalloped edge of each medallion, the small turns of the lattice - stay sharp rather than soften into the field around them. A cotton warp holds the weave stable at this density, and a pile of only seven millimetres keeps the pattern reading crisply rather than blurring under a deeper nap. It is this combination that lets so dark a ground carry so much contrast.
At 58 centimetres wide, this is a runner for a hallway or a landing, somewhere it will be seen end to end rather than sat upon. The near-black field takes the daily wear of a passage without showing it, and in a hallway with little daylight the ivory medallions and rust-red stripes still hold their own. Underfoot the wool and silk pile is dense, smooth and firm, made for a floor that is crossed often rather than reserved for best. Catch it under a lamp in the evening and the medallions seem to lift forward from the navy, as though lit from within.
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At 250 × 58 cm (1.45 m²) this is a runner. It belongs in a hallway, an entrance, on a landing or lengthways beside a bed. It is too narrow for the middle of a room.
Yes, knotted by hand — knot by knot on a loom, not machine-made. The density is 441,000 to 500,000 knots per square metre; across 1.45 m² that is roughly 640,000 to 730,000 individual knots, every one of them tied by hand.
This pile contains silk and is more delicate than pure wool. Vacuum without a rotating brush and along the pile, do not beat it, and keep it out of permanent direct sun. Blot spills at once with a light cloth, never rub. For a proper clean a silk-blend rug belongs in expert hands — we handle that for pieces bought from us.
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Certificate included verifying origin, materials, and craftsmanship.
Ref: 472919