Antique Persian Sarouk Rug

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...

One of the top high end Persian carpet maker. The source of this important provenance has been in the village of Sarouk. North of Arak (formerly Sultanabad). Sarouks are known to be...

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...

Antique handmade Persian Malayer rug, circa 1910. Beautiful ivory background color with soft blue and green. Measures: 4'3" x 6'7" The tribal weavers in Malayer were often Turkish, a...

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...

This beautiful antique Persian Farahan hand-knotted design rug will make your floor look splendid. This collection is made in wool. It's measures are: 12'.2 x 18'.2 This antique Persian Farahan rug...

A beautiful mid-20th century Persian Sarouk rug with a central flower with trailing vines with more large flowers and leaves, surrounded by a complex border with a repeated floral an...

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...