Distressed Antique Persian Sarouk Area Rug with Modern English Tudor Style

77522, vintage Persian Floral Sarouk rug with Traditional English Tudor style. With timeless appeal, refined colors, and architectural design element...

72908, vintage Persian Sarouk rug with traditional English Tudor Manor style 10'01 x 1306.?? With timeless appeal, refined colors, and architectural design elements, this hand knotte...

53481 Distressed Antique Persian Sarouk rug with Rustic Italian Style 08'10 x 11'03. Emanating Italian Rustic style and lovingly timeworn appearance combined with brilliant blues and...

74952, antique Persian Sarouk rug with Rustic American Traditional style. With timeless appeal and time-softened colors, this hand knotted wool an...

76699 Distressed Antique Persian Sarouk Rug with Rustic Arts and Crafts Style 09'00 x 11'04. The architectural elements of naturalistic forms and warm earthy colors combined with Art...

53445, distressed antique Persian Sarouk rug with rustic American traditional style. With timeless appeal, soft colors, and naturalistic design el...

An early 20th century rare size Persian Sarouk rug. Measures: 6' x 8'11''.

An authentic early 20th-century scatter size Persian Sarouk carpet with Classic medallion and border design on a crisp navy blue field, circa 1910. Measures: 2'9" x 4'7" Invest...

Ashly Fine Rugs presents an Antique Persian Sarouk Mahajaran 12x19 Oversized Area Rug. Mahajaran Sarouk rugs were woven in central Persia’s Sultanabad (later called Arak) province. T...

An authentic early 20th century Sarouk Ferahan carpet with classic medallion and border design. Investment-level Ferahan rugs were not produced after the 1910s, and the finer 19th and turn-of-the 20th century examples have become quite rare. The best antique Ferahan rugs...

Early 20th century Persian Sarouk Fereghan rug. 9'1'' x 11'10'' Today, the best Ferahan Persian carpets have become a favorite of connoisseurs and e...

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...