Antique Red Gold Floral Persian Sarouk Small Area Rug, circa 1930s

Sarouk is a small village and its neighboring villages in Northwestern Iran. Most Sarouk carpets follow a very distinctive design and is depended on floral sprays and bouquets. This is a fine example of an antique Sarouk carpet...

Pristine antique Farahan Sarouk dating from the 1930s measuring 2.2 x 2.6 ft. Persian Farahan Sarouk rugs were woven in the village of Sarouk but these carpets given the name “Farah...

Sarouk is a small village and its neighboring villages in Northwestern Iran. Most Sarouk carpets follow a very distinctive design and is depended on floral sprays and bouquets. They ...

Sarouk is a small village and its neighboring villages in Northwestern Iran. Most Sarouk carpets follow a very distinctive design and is depended on floral sprays and bouquets. Thi...

Sarouk is a small village and its neighboring villages in Northwestern Iran. Most Sarouk carpets follow a very distinctive design and is depended on floral sprays and bouquets. They ...

Sarouk is a small village and its neighboring villages in Northwestern Iran. Most Sarouk carpets follow a very distinctive design and is depended on floral sprays and bouquets. This is a fine example of an antique Sarouk carpet...

The cardinal red field of this leathery, well-woven West Persian small rustic scatter shows the characteristic "American Sarouk" pattern of closely set floral sprays and complete flo...

Not you usual Sarouk ,but a totally urban weaving executed with a centralized, four section palmette design on a creamy ecru ground,with accents in rust, navy and green. Well balance...

The relatively uncommon cream field displays a pendanted involuted red oval medallion, surrounded by a wide variety of characteristic "American" Sarouk floral sprays. This heavily wo...

Sarouk rug, circa 1930s, very fine with high density of knots and soft, vegetable dye wool, unpainted Sarouk, .in excellent condition. A nice soft tone of red and blue background col...

A gorgeous antique hand-knotted Persian Sarouk room size rug Circa 1930s Features beautiful traditional floral sprays and bouquets, with predominant colors in red, blue, and ivory....

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...