
Tabriz 50 Raj | With Silk · with silk
229 × 165 cm
9.600 €












7.350 €
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Tabriz is one of Persia's great weaving cities, a place that has set the benchmark for precision and design discipline for five centuries. This is a round medallion rug from that tradition, 201 x 201 cm (6'7" x 6'7"), and it departs from the jewel tones Tabriz is usually known for in favour of something softer: a pastel palette that gives the whole piece a gentler, more decorative character.
The field is a pale, ivory cream, and against it the central medallion sits in salmon pink and dusty rose, edged with sage green and light blue foliage that scatters outward across the field. Fine gold scrollwork threads through the design without ever asserting itself. A wide camel border, taking up roughly a fifth of the rug's radius, carries palmettes and vase motifs in the same pink and blue, and because the medallion mirrors perfectly around the circle, the eye finds no seam and no starting point as it travels the design.
This precision comes from the way Tabriz rugs are built: woven from a fixed drawn plan with the symmetric, or Turkish, knot, which locks tight and holds a line exactly where the design places it. Here the pile is wool with silk, at a density of 501,000 to 640,000 knots per square metre, which is fine enough to carry the pastel gradations and the mirrored curves of the medallion without them blurring at the edges. Silk spins finer than wool, so wherever it sits in the pile it catches the light differently, and that is what gives the medallion its faint glow against the matte cream ground.
A round rug this size settles naturally under a round table, or at the centre of a seating group in a living or dining room, where its circular line has something to answer rather than fighting a rectangular room. The ivory field will lift a pale floor and hold its own against darker furniture without competing for attention, and the pastel medallion reads as a quiet focal point rather than a loud one. Underfoot the pile is fine, dense and even, firm rather than deep, well suited to a room that sees regular use. As daylight moves across it through the day, the silk highlights in the medallion shift gently, and that quiet change is the pleasure of living with this piece.
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Exceptionally fine weave
At 201 × 201 cm (4.04 m²) this is a medium rug. It works in front of a sofa, in front of a bed or in a study. It is too small for a dining table — there you want about 80 cm of clearance so a chair does not tip over the edge when pushed back.
Yes, knotted by hand — knot by knot on a loom, not machine-made. The density is 501,000 to 640,000 knots per square metre; across 4.04 m² that is roughly 2.0 to 2.6 million 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: 940116