Sarouk Persian Rug in Wool - N° 1225

1018 - Very fine carpet with a beautiful floral pattern, beautiful colors white, blue and red, entirely and finely hand-knotted with wool pile on the cotton thread.

N° 736, hand knotted carpet in India factory from 20th century. High quality, beautiful graphics and remarkable finesse. Perfect state of preservation. Measures: 185 x 115 cm.

746 - Very beautiful carpet from the mid-20th century with a nice central floral medallion pattern and beautiful colors, entirely and finely hand-knotted with silk velvet on a silk f...

1023 - very beautiful 19th century carpet with a nice design, very decorative, with pretty natural colors, entirely and finely hand-knotted with wool velvet on a cotton foundation.

This highly desirable antique Sarouk Persian rug with traditional style features an impressive all-over floral design rendered in a refined color palette, illuminating the allover de...

78683 Antique Persian Sarouk Farahan Rug, 04'00 x 06'05. A Sarouk rug, also spelled Saruk or Sarough, hails from Iran's Markazi Province. Meticulously crafted in the village of Saruk...

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...

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...