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

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...

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

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...

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...

Antique Persian Farahan Sarouk Rug 7’3" x 10’5". The scatter and room size pieces made in the Arak/Sultanabad area, between 1880 and 1910, with firm and leathery well-woven textures...

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 Farahan Sarouk Rug 8'7'' x 10'5''. The scatter and room size pieces made in the Arak/Sultanabad area, between 1880 and 1910, with firm and leathery well-woven textures, and s...

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 ...