Vintage Persian Mahal Rug with Rustic Romantic Traditional Style

76311, vintage Persian Kashan Area rug with neoclassical style. Featuring a standard Kashan medallion of stepped and lobed attributes, this hand knott...

78677 Antique Persian Mahal Rug, 08'01 x 10'06. Immerse yourself in the seamless fusion of relaxed refinement and rustic allure with our meticulously hand-knotted wool antique Persia...

78761 Distressed Antique Persian Kerman Rug, 03'10 x 06'02. The legacy of Kerman rugs originates from the heart of south-central Iran, within the historic city of Kerman. This bustli...

76466, vintage Persian Khorassan Area rug with traditional style. This hand-knotted wool vintage Persian Khorassan rug features an eight-point star inside a 16-point centre medallion...

Farahan is a village located in west central Iran, north of the city of Arak, and is known for its finely knotted late 19th century rugs. Most Farahan rugs have a geometric pattern, ...

Of finely-woven "Lavar" quality, this SE Persian city carpet displays a barbed and pendanted tall lozengoid ivory medallion with a four-palmette pendant sub-medallion, all on a navy ...

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...

An antique Persian Mahal room size carpet handmade during the early 20th century. Measures: 8' 9" x 12' 6".