Antique Persian Area Rug Overdye Design

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 Overdye design han...

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 Overdye design han...

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 Kerman design hand...

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 Bakhtiar design ha...

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 Kolyai design hand...

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 Bakhtiar design ha...

:: Stunning antique Halvai Bijar vintage 1910's, 20's in an allover harshang design- Lovely shades in a wide range of colors- Carpet is super supple, pliable and healthy. Many years ...

Antique Sarouk Rug 4'0'' x 7'6''

This antique, hand-knotted Persian wool rug features a medallion and floral design with brown and beige accents. This rug measures 9'7'' x 12'4".

The Iranian city of Isfahan has long been one of the center's for production of the famous Persian carpet (or rug). Isfahani carpets are renowned for their high quality. sfahan rugs...

This orange, antique, hand-knotted Persian wool rug has a medallion floral design with brown and beige accents. This rug measures 9'9'' x 12'6".

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...