Bobyrug’s Wonderful Antique Fine Saroq Farahan Rug

Exquisite antique Sarouk Ferahan carpet, intricately handwoven towards the late 19th century. This stunning piece features a symmetrical, stylized floral motif with a central white m...

Nice late 19th century or early 20th century rug with beautiful floral design with central medallion and beautiful colors with red, blue, dark blue, green and pink, entirely hand kno...

Exquisite antique rug featuring a stunning floral central medallion design and captivating natural colors, including shades of red, blue, and pink. Meticulously hand-knotted with woo...

Very beautiful late 19th century Bijar rug with nice floral design and beautiful natural colors, entirely and finely hand knotted with wool velvet on wool foundation. ✨✨✨ "Experienc...

61112 Antique Persian Sarouk Farahan Rug, 04'00 x 06'08. Embark on a captivating journey through time and tradition with this meticulously hand-knotted wool antique Persian Sarouk Fa...

Farahan is a village located in west central Iran, north of the city of Arak, and is known for its finely knotted late 19th century rugs. Most Farahan rugs have a geometric pattern, ...

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...

78229 Vintage Persian Sarouk Rug, 10'03 x 13'09. Bathed in the gentle radiance of a warm ivory-beige ground, this hand-knotted wool vintage Persian Sarouk rug reveals a composition t...