The Tabriz Imperial Medallion Rug - 9x12

There are rugs that anchor a room. And there are rugs that become the room. This is the latter.

The Tabriz Imperial Medallion arrives with the absolute confidence of something that has always known its own worth. That midnight navy field — so deep it reads differently under every light source, catching warmth from morning sun and depth from evening shadow — is one of the great ground colours of the Persian weaving tradition. Not black. Not cobalt. Midnight — a blue that carries the weight of centuries and wears it without effort.

Against it, a medallion of extraordinary ambition. Not a modest central motif quietly asserting itself across the field — this is a medallion that claims the entire piece as its own. Its lobed form expands from the centre in great curving arcs of ivory and champagne gold, each lobe filled with its own world of arabesques, palmettes and scrollwork so fine it requires examination at close range to fully comprehend. At the very heart, a blush rose inner medallion burns with quiet intensity — a flame at the centre of everything, the point from which all else radiates outward.

What makes this piece exceptional beyond the medallion itself is what happens in the field around it. The navy ground between the medallion's great lobed arms is not empty — it carries a continuous garden of blush and ivory florals in silk so fine they read almost as embroidery against the dark ground. Most rugs at this scale would leave the field relatively open to let the medallion breathe. The Tabriz Imperial fills every inch. The density of craft across the entire surface is uniform — as complex at the edges as at the centre, as considered in the corners as in the heart of the piece.

The outer field — the wide ivory border between the navy centre and the edge — reverses the palette entirely. Ivory ground, navy and blush pattern, gold accents. The same vocabulary of florals and arabesques as the centre field but in light rather than dark. The effect is architectural — a formal frame around an extraordinary painting, each element in its correct proportion, the whole composition resolving into something that feels both inevitable and rare.

The border is ivory of the warmest tone — carrying blush cartouches at regular intervals, each one containing its own miniature floral composition, framed by continuous gold scrollwork that moves with the measured rhythm of a classical frieze. A thin navy binding at the outermost edge provides the final architectural note — clean, precise and completely authoritative.

This is Tabriz design at its most imperial. Every decision correct. Every proportion earned. Every inch of the surface a testament to what happens when centuries of accumulated craft knowledge are applied to a single object with complete seriousness and no compromise.

367 knots per square inch. Hand-knotted in pure silk. Woven in Henan Province by craftspeople working a tradition centuries in the making.

At 9x12 the Tabriz Imperial Medallion is a room-defining statement of the highest order. The midnight navy field absorbs light during the day and releases it differently in the evening — the ivory medallion appearing to glow as artificial light falls across the silk surface, the blush rose centre warming toward terracotta, the gold details catching every change in the hour with a responsiveness that flat photography cannot replicate.

The scale of the central medallion means this piece reads from the far end of a long room as clearly as it reads from the threshold. It does not require proximity to reveal itself. It announces itself completely from a distance and then rewards the person who stops and looks more carefully with discoveries that continue for as long as they are willing to look.

A piece of this scale and complexity at 367 knots per square inch represents an extraordinary investment of human time and skill. The millions of individual knots that compose this surface were each tied by hand, the pattern held in mind across months of continuous work, the consistency of the navy field maintained across a surface large enough that any variation in dye lot or tension would be immediately visible. That there is no such variation — that the midnight navy is the same depth and richness at every point across 108 square feet of silk — is itself a statement about the standard of craft in our atelier in Henan Province.

This is the flagship format of the Mizan Grand Collection. It is not a rug for a modest ambition.

One piece. One home. Exclusively yours.

Material: 100% Pure Silk Knot Density: 367 knots per square inch Origin: Henan Province, China Weave: Hand-knotted Size: 9x12 Collection: The Grand Collection Price: £15,000 Availability: 1 of 1