Antique Oversize Persian Sarouk Rug, circa 1900 10'5" x 17'6".

An antique Sarouk rug on a blue ground with a red entwined scrolling vine filled with foliate designs, enclosed by a navy border repeating the theme. Size: 10' x 21'6.  

Vintage oversize Persian Kerman rug, circa 1940. This large oversized rug is full of wonderful detail in the weaving, the ivory field with...

Antique Persian Sarouk Rug Circa 1900. The distinctive colors of this Sarouk rug reflects the style that became so popular in the USA at the beginning of the 20th century. The soft r...

Antique Persian Farahan Sarouk Rug Circa 1900. This delightful rug is full of wonderful detail and shows the true skill of the weaver to create this little masterpiece. The deep navy...

This antique Sarouk Feraghan has a bold look. The navy field filled with trailing floral designs is enclosed by four guard borders and a main border in...

The light blue field coupled with the central medallion gives the feeling of an island surrounded by water in this delightful rug. The profusion of floral patterns in the large borde...

Antique oversize Persian terracotta Sultanabad rug, circa 1880. Size 17'6 x 23'9. This is a village carpet? Well, a rather large one, not your usual scatter 4 x 6 or room size 9 x 12. Sultanabad carpets were woven in the Arak/Markazi province, around the town of Sultanabad, from the mid-1880’s until WWI, under the aegis and contracts of Western carpet firms, primarily Ziegler and Hotz. Neither firm marked their carpets, but it has been the modern trade practice to attribute quality Sultanabad's to Ziegler. Ziegler had a centralized dye works, design studio, wool processing operation and washing facility, but no workshops, the actual weaving being farmed out to local household ateliers. The patterns were distributed via sampler mats (wagirehs), the knot density and color palettes were assigned, and sufficient wool and foundational cotton were also given out. This splendid carpet must have been woven from a set of extremely well-drawn samplers. The desirable rust-red madder field shows a classically derived allover pattern of knotted cloud bands, large and complex ragged palmettes, smaller palmettes, slender vinery, leaves and diminutive florets. The accent tones include cream, pale green, straw, and light brown. The taupe main border shows a repeating pattern of double barbed leaves, octogramme rosettes, trefoil palmettes, tilted petal palmettes and supporting vinery. A rust-red plain border frames the whole. The use of plain, field tone borders on larger Persian carpets...

Antique Persian Bakshaish rug, 13' x 17'6. This is a truly unique, extremely imaginative NW Persian rustic carpet with a sky/land/water iconography. The two species of birds, larger ...

Pristine oversize Museum quality antique Farahan Sarouk dating from the 1880s-1900s measuring 16.10 x 26 ft. Persian Farahan Sarouk rugs were woven in the village of Sarouk but thes...

74960 Antique Persian Sarouk Rug with Victorian Style 10'03 x 17'10. With timeless floral design and a traditional color palette, this hand knotted wool antique Persian Sarouk rug is...

Antique Persian Sultanabad rug, circa 1890, measures: 10'5 x 14'2. The vast majority of Sultanabad carpets feature allover patterns on madder red grounds more or less of floral origin, and spaciously drawn with time-mellowed tones. Sultanabad's are the ultimate living room carpets, but are equally versatile in almost any room. Their mellow palettes make them welcoming and ultra-comfortable. Here a five-column pattern of round and laterally extended rosettes shows a distant connection to the popular Mina Khani rosette trellis pattern. The linked motives are detailed in light blue, cream, and salmon-buff on the warm madder red ground. The handsome pattern is not quite balanced, slightly sliding under the borders, and this gives it a mobility which, when in lesser hands, could have been all too rigid. This sort of subtle mobility cannot easily be duplicated in a factory carpet created from a rigorously preplanned design. Sultanabad The luminous cerulean indigo blue border is in the strip style, with the end borders running straight across, and the independent side strips filling in. Various rosettes and leaves create the pattern. As is characteristic of Sultanabad's, the plain outermost border repeats the field tone. This synchronicity is lost on the Mahals of the next generation. The weave is moderately coarse with a cotton foundation. The pile wool is softly resilient, and the knots are not strongly packed down. Sultanabad's are always in style and although many were woven, finding one in good condition is always a challenge. Sultanabad's usually run from 10 or 12 by 14 or 15, to 18 by 24...

76984 Oversized Antique Persian Sarouk Rug, 12'00 x 25'00. Persian Sarouk rugs, also known as Saruk or Sarough rugs, are a type of Persian rug originating from the Sarouk region of I...