Antique Persian Sarouk Rug

This well-woven, cotton foundation Central Persian city carpet presents a deep navy indigo field with a dense cover of rosettes, palmettes, flowering stems, angular branches and sharply curved barbed bitonal leaves. Saturated red border with flowering vases...

This quite finely woven Central Persian city carpet has a velvety pile of Manchester-spun Merino wool. The royal blue inscription cartouche and quatrefoil ...

Antique Sarouk Rug 4'0'' x 7'6''

Sarouk is a name of a village situated about 25 miles north of Arak (Sultanabad). This region became one of the most active regions of carpet weaving in the late 19th century through the early 20th century. The city's most famous designer was named Farahan. To be able to compete with Kashan in rug commerce, Farahan designed rugs with center medallion motives. Today, these carpets are referred to as antique 19th century Farahan Sarouks. In the 1920s and 1930s a well-known rug dealer in New York thought that Americans would buy rose-field carpets with blue borders and detached floral motives. During that period, a vast number of Sarouks with rose-fields and all-over floral patterns were woven and exported to the American market. However, the natural dyed rose color did not stand up to the alkaline bath to which new rugs in Arak were subjected in the finishing process. The rose color faded radically. But instead of changing the finishing process or changing the composition of the dyes to stand up to alkali, New York merchants "solved" the problem by arming their staffs with synthetic dyes and little paint brushes with which they painted back in the rose-color in the entire fields of thousands and thousands of rugs and carpets over a period of 20 years. Today, antique Sarouk rugs and carpets...

Sarouk is a name of a village situated about 25 miles north of Arak (Sultanabad). This region became one of the most active regions of carpet weaving in the late 19th century through the early 20th century. The city's most famous designer was named Farahan. To be able to compete with Kashan in rug commerce, Farahan designed rugs with center medallion motives. Today, these carpets are referred to as Antique 19th century Farahan Sarouks. In the 1920s and 1930s a well-known rug dealer in New York thought that Americans would buy rose-field carpets with blue borders and detached floral motives. During that period, a vast number of Sarouks with rose-fields and all over floral patterns were woven and exported to the American market. However, the natural dyed rose color did not stand up to the alkaline bath to which new rugs in Arak were subjected in the finishing process. The rose color faded radically. But instead of changing the finishing process or changing the composition of the dyes to stand up to alkali, New York merchants "solved" the problem by arming their staffs with synthetic dyes and little paint brushes with which they painted back in the rose-color in the entire fields of thousands and thousands of rugs and carpets over a period of 20 years. Today, Antique Sarouk rugs and carpets...

Antique Persian Sarouk Area Rug       

Antique Persian Sarouk rug. Measures: 9' x 12'10. Sarouk rugs are from the village of Saruk about 25 miles north of Arak, in west Persia. Sarouk rugs have been produced for much of t...

Antique Persian Sarouk rug. Size: 4'7" x 10'0".

Sarouk 10'8" x 11'0" gold color background.

Antique Persian Sarouk rug, measures: 16'2" x 31'2".

An antique Persian Sarouk carpet from the early 20th century. Even in the “American” style Sarouk period, the Arak province village weavers produced extraordinary medallion carpets and this example is one of them. A very complex red medallion is placed on a black ground and set within camel-tone scalloped corners. The ivory forked arabesques of the medallion are wild and strong. The materials and execution are both top grade. A real rug...

An antique Persian Sarouk rug from the first quarter of the 20th century.