Vintage American Sarouk Carpet

:: Covered field of blossomed plants and floral sprays in reciprocating staggered contour. Detailed floral vines sprawl in a circular bouquet with botehs and detailed floral bells throughout. Colors and shades include: Sand, beige, sky blue, ivory, dusty rose, peach, terracotta, dark apricot, and more. Condition notes: Areas of pile and knot heads. Most of the original side cord selvages are intact or restored. Fully secured sides and ends. Carpet shows minor contouring, mostly to the middle. Localized areas of expert restoration to the pile and the outer edge border. Recently professionally cleaned ready for in-home use! Many years of enjoyment to come with this hand knotted Persian Farahan Sarouk carpet...

:: Floral sprays and bouquets adorning the main field wrapped by an arabesque inner and outer minor border with main border in a repeating floral arrangement and lotus flower cross s...

:: Small Farahan Sarouk Ivory Circa 1900. Super unusual main design elements of shadowed samovar design with a repeating herati motif of pomegrana...

:: Highly expressive and nuanced covered field with serrated floral leaves, palmettes, cloud band-like vines, and an unusually vivid and almost translucent-like clarity to shades. Co...

78223 antique Persian Sarouk room size rug 10'01 x 16'08. Rendered in variegated shades of red, navy blue, brown, royal blue, cerulean, tan, pink, rose, and taupe with other accent ...

77579 Antique Persian Sarouk Farahan Rug, 08'05 x 12'06. Persian Sarouk Farahan rugs, originating from the Farahan district in central Iran, are renowned for their exquisite craftsma...

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...

78122 Antique Persian Sarouk Rug, 02'01 x 04'02. Radiating timeless grandeur, this hand-knotted antique Persian Sarouk rug stands as a paragon of refined elegance, a woven testament ...