Vintage Persian Oversize Kerman Rug, circa 1940 11'10 x 23'5.

Vintage oversize Kerman rug, circa 1940. This attractive oversized Kerman has an ivory ground enclosing a central floral design in soft pastel blues an...

Oversize vintage Persian Kerman rug circa 1940. A palace size Kerman rug with the field overflowing with floral elements in a wide variety of colors and shades all centered on a smal...

Vintage Persian Kerman rug, circa 1940. This rug is a true work of art the amount of detail woven into this piece is quite amazing from the ivory ground filled to profusion with flow...

Vintage oversize Persian Kerman rug, circa 1940. This rug is a true work of art the amount of detail woven into this piece is quite amazin...

Antique Persian Kerman rug 11'11 x 18'1. A fine Kerman Garden Design Rug. The intricate field divided into rows of nine individual designs within their own frame which are repeated w...

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...

Vintage Persian Sarouk Rug 11’10” x 17’6”. The well-woven village carpets from the Arak/Sultanabad area, especially the red field/navy border, detached floral spray pattern “American...

Vintage Persian Kerman Rug 10’0" x 11’0". SE Persian city, famous since 17th century for an artistic variety of scatter rugs and large carpets in medallion and allover styles, changi...