Vintage Hand-Knotted Persian Moud Room Size Wool Rug

A gorgeous vintage hand-knotted room size Persian Kashan wool area rug 20th Century Beautiful traditional floral design, with predominant co...

A gorgeous vintage hand-knotted Persian Heriz room size wool rug Mid-20th Century Beautiful floral design, with predominant colors in red, blue, gold, green, and ivory. Measures: ...

A gorgeous vintage hand-knotted Persian Tabriz large room size wool rug Circa Mid-20th Century Beautiful floral design, with predominant colors in red, pink, blue, and ivory. Meas...

A gorgeous antique Persian Sarouk large room size rug Circa 1930s Features beautiful traditional floral sprays and bouquets, with predominant colors in red, blue, and ivory. Measu...

A Large Vintage Persian Sarouk Rug. A fine hand knotted wool pile in Persian knot tightly woven on a cotton foundation. A floral and foliate design consisting of a central 5 tiered r...

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...

A hand-knotted Oriental rug inred and blue, made in the 1980s. Pile is pure wool, warp and weft is cotton. The rug is in very good condition with vibrant colors. Pile material: Fi...

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 ...