6'8 x 9'10" Persian Bijar Rug | Ivory Field, All-over Herati Design | Iron Rug of Persia

This Persian Bijar takes the iron rug of Persia in a calmer, more architectural direction. There is no central medallion at all in this 6'8 x 9'10". Instead, a single herati pattern repeats without a break across a soft ivory field, corner to corner, so the rug reads as one quiet, all-over fabric rather than a design with a focal point. It is hand-knotted in wool on a cotton foundation, in excellent condition, and packed to roughly 360 to 380 knots per square inch, which is very fine for the village. Every rug we ship includes a certificate of authenticity.

Design and Motifs

The entire field is given over to the herati, the fine lattice of small rosettes framed by curved leaves that many call the fish pattern. Here it runs edge to edge with no medallion to interrupt it, each little diamond of the lattice repeating with the even, disciplined hand Bijar weavers are famous for. Because the pattern is uninterrupted, the eye reads texture before it reads any single motif, which is exactly why an all-over Bijar is so easy to live with: it can sit under a table, run down a hall of a room, or center a seating area without a medallion dictating where the furniture has to go. Framing the field is a red main border of scrolling palmettes and rosettes in cream, blue and green, set between slender guard stripes, a warm boundary that keeps the quiet field from feeling plain.

Color and Palette

The story here is light. The ground is a soft ivory that keeps the whole rug bright and open, and against it the herati is drawn in red, navy, brown and touches of green, pink and sky blue, so the pattern reads clearly without ever crowding the field. The border shifts to a warm red carrying its palmettes in cream, blue and green, giving the rug a definite frame and a little heat around a cool center. This is the friendliest of the Bijar palettes, an airy ivory and red scheme that lifts a room rather than darkening it, and one that sits comfortably with both traditional and more relaxed modern furniture.

Origin and Weave

Bijar, in the Kurdish highlands of northwest Persia, is the town that earned the iron rug name, its weavers beating the wefts down so firmly that the finished fabric is thick, heavy and famously hard to wear out. The all-over herati is one of the oldest and most respected Bijar layouts, and this example carries it at a high 360 to 380 knots per square inch, hand-knotted in wool on a cotton foundation. If you would like to see it beside similar pieces, we stock more Persian Bijar rugs in the 6x9 and 7x10 sizes.