Fine Antique Circa 1960s Hand-Knotted Persian Sarouk Area Rug — 7'5 x 10'4

This Fine Hand Knotted Wool Carpet Features A Classic Persian Design, with an Elegant Central Medallion. Size is 12'8 x 19'10 & In Great Condition.

A Vintage Hand-Knotted Persian Isfahan Room-Sized Rug - 10'10 x 15'6 with a floral design with birds and flowers, showcasing intricate patterns and details.

Rare Fine Antique Circa 19th Century Persian Kashan Rug Size: 5.17 m x 3.08m. Great Condition.

Circa 1990s Hand-Knotted Sino-Persian Tabriz Room Sized Rug

Fine Antique Persian Khorasan Rug 7’5” x 10’3”. The urban rugs made in the enormous NE Persian province (see also Meshed), with repeating patterns, long carpet formats (kellegis), so...

Fine Antique Persian Heriz Serapi Rug 8’2” x 10’4”. The numerous rugs of the famous NW Persian weaving district, from small scatters to giant carpets and a few runners, in semi-geom...

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...

Indulge in the timeless elegance of our Antique Handmade Northwest Persian Sarouk Rug, a precious gem dating back to around 1940. This exquisite piece, measuring 10'4" x 13'3 is a t...