| Size in ft: | Width: 8'0" x Length: 11'6" |
| Size in Inch: | Width: 96" x Length: 138" |
| Size in meters: | Length: 3.51 x Width: 2.44 m |
| Colors: | Red, Ivory, Cream, Navy, Sky Blue, Sage Green, Brown |
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| Woven: | 100% Hand-knotted | Handmade |
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| Design: | Allover Floral | No medallion |
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| Condition: | Excellent | Never used |
8'0" x 11'6" Persian Nain 9La Rug | Allover Floral, Silk Highlights | 320-340 KPSI
This is a fine 9La Persian Nain, 8'0" x 11'6", knotted in wool with silk highlights on a cotton foundation at roughly 320 to 340 knots per square inch. A rich red field carries a delicate allover vinescroll of blue and ivory palmettes with no central medallion, framed by the calm cream border Nain is known for. The silk is used sparingly through the vines and flowerheads, so the pattern quietly catches the light as you move around it. The rug has never been used, the pile is full, and it ships with a certificate of authenticity.
Please Note About the Color:
There is a narrow band in the red field, about 1.5 inches wide near the border, that reads slightly brighter than the rest of the ground. This is abrash, the natural variation that occurs when a weaver moves between separately dyed batches of wool, and it is a normal and prized characteristic of a genuine hand-knotted rug, not fading, wear, or damage. It is visible in the photos and video so you can see exactly what to expect. The rug is otherwise in excellent, never used condition.
Design and Motifs
The field is a true allover design: a fine tracery of curving vines links rounded palmettes, lotus flowerheads, and small serrated leaves across the entire red ground, with no medallion to interrupt it. The drawing is symmetrical and flows corner to corner, the mark of a carefully cartooned city rug. The wide cream main border answers the field with its own scrolling vine of palmettes, bracketed by several narrow sky-blue guard stripes that step the eye in from the edge. Fine dark outlining separates every element cleanly, which is exactly what a high knot count allows and what gives Nain drawing its crisp, almost drawn-with-a-pen precision.
Red Field, Blue and Ivory Drawing
Where most Nains are woven on ivory or navy, this one leads with a warm red field, which gives the familiar Nain palette a richer, more formal feel. Against the red, the vines and flowers are worked in layered blues, from soft sky to deep navy, alongside cream, ivory, and touches of sage green and brown. The silk highlights sit in the flowerheads and finer vine lines, lifting them just off the wool ground. The border reverses the balance onto cream, so the whole rug frames itself: a glowing red center held inside a quiet ivory surround. It reads warm and traditional by lamplight and bright and airy by day.
Nain and the 9La Grade
Nain lies in central Persia at the edge of the desert near Isfahan, and in a few short decades its workshops built a worldwide reputation for fine, precisely drawn floral rugs in blue, ivory, and now red. Nain fineness is measured in La, the number of threads twisted into each ground warp: the lower the number, the finer the weave. At 9La this rug sits in the solid fine range of city Nain work, dense enough at 320 to 340 knots to hold the delicate vinescroll and the silk highlights cleanly. For a full history of the town and its grading, our complete guide to Nain rugs covers how these carpets are made and what separates the grades.
