Antique Persian Mahal Area Rug with Modern Federal Style

75374 Antique Persian Malayer Rug, 06'03 x 11'09. Laid-back luxury meets rustic sensibility in this antique Persian Malayer rug. The Guli Henna floral design and rich earthy hues wov...

74415 Distressed Vintage Persian Mahal Rug, 10'08 X 14'01. Persian Mahal rugs, originating from the Mahallat region in central Northwestern Iran, are characterized by their bold geom...

This highly desirable antique Sarouk Persian rug with traditional style features an impressive all-over floral design rendered in a refined color palette, illuminating the allover de...

76892 Vintage Persian Bakhtiari Rug with Traditional Style. Rustic and refined with understated elegance, this hand-knotted vintage Persian Bakhtiari rug with traditional style featu...

Antique Persian area rug handwoven from the finest sheep’s wool. It’s colored with all-natural vegetable dyes that are safe for humans and pets. It’s a traditional Mahal design handw...

Antique Persian area rug handwoven from the finest sheep’s wool. It’s colored with all-natural vegetable dyes that are safe for humans and pets. It’s a traditional Sultanabad design ...

Antique Persian Malayer Area rug, 4'6 x 6'5. Malayer rugs comes from west Persia near Hamadan woven in a range of medallion and all-over designs they have a wonderful style that make...

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...