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The Feraghan district located south of Tehran, encompassed the cities of Arak, Qum and Kashan, an area with a long and illustrious history of rug and carpet weaving. In the 19th cent...

Exquisite Antique Persian Feraghan Sarouk Carpet - A Gem from Chicago Collection Behold the timeless allure of this incredibly fine antique Feraghan Sarouk carpet, a masterpiece th...

A gorgeous Persian Kirman style room size rug By Karastan USA, circa 1940s Features a beautiful all-over patchwork pattern containing myriad flowers woven in myriad colors a...

An exceptional Persian Sarouk style room size rug By Karastan USA, Circa 1950s Features a beautiful floral pattern in myriad colors, and surrounded by a border of similar pattern ...

An exceptional Persian Kirman style room size rug By Karastan USA, Circa 1940s Features a beautiful all-over patchwork pattern containing myriad flowers woven in myriad colo...

An exceptional Persian Sarouk style room size rug By Karastan USA, circa 1950s Features beautiful traditional floral sprays and bouquets, with predominant colors in red, blu...

An exceptional Persian Kirman style room size wool rug By Karastan USA, Circa 1940s Features a beautiful all-over patchwork pattern containing myriad flowers woven in myriad color...

The Feraghan district area have a long history of rug and carpet weaving in the 19th century, many British companies opened oriental carpet factories and began to produce fine Persia...

Tree of life Feraghan Sarouk with birds of happiness. The Feraghan district located south of Tehran, encompassed the cities of Arak, Qum and Kashan, an area with a long and illustri...

Feraghans were made between the 1870s and 1913 from a region north of the town of Arak, produced for the Persian aristocracy. They are single wefted, long and narrow or room-sized carpets, typically with an all-over Herati design or floral and curling leaf motifs. Feraghan-Sarouks, also called Sarouks, are double-wefted, heavier 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...

Please ask me for the best way for shipping. An unusual pair of antique handmade northwest Persian Feraghan Sarouk rugs. 4'3" x 7' Each, c-1880's, finely woven with soft fine natura...