Light Gray Elegant Medallion Persian Rug · 1200 Reeds sajadah off-white or cool-gray walls

off-white or cool-gray walls

but the real story is the all-over repeat that outvotes the center

navy or ivory linen upholstery

and 10×13 — bicolor designs need scale for the color boundary to read as architectural rather than as a stripe

On this Dark Gray ground the register reads differently than it does on our Light Gray Mughal sibling — the dark field absorbs the floral ornament rather than displaying it

Light Gray Elegant Medallion Persian Rug · 1200 Reeds sajadah off-white or cool-gray wallsAt a Glance A light gray Persian medallion rug in the Isfahan late Safavid refined floral register woven on a 1200 reed Turkish power loom, over 3 million knots per square meter on a cotton warp. The Isfahan refined floral tradition pairs a small, precisely drawn central medallion with a field of small scale floral repeats: less commanding than the Kashan formal medallion, less curvilinear than the Tabriz arabesque, more intimate than the Mughal