Wonderful Antique Bijar Rug

Very pretty and rare fine 19th century Sarouk Farahan rug with beautiful floral design and nice natural colors, very finely hand knotted with wool on cotton foundation. ✨✨✨ "Experie...

Very beautiful antique rug with nice Herti design and natural colors with blue, red, dark blue, orange, pink, yellow and green, finely and entire...

Very beautiful late 19th century Bijar rug with nice floral design and beautiful natural colors, entirely and finely hand knotted with wool velvet on wool foundation. ✨✨✨ "Experienc...

Extraordinary and rare antique, very fine and very pretty rug by Sarouk Ferahan, with pretty floral designs and pretty natural colors, entirely and very finely hand-knotted in wool v...

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...

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...

This vintage Persian Sarouk with Traditional style rug features an intricate center medallion with two cartouche finials in a blue field surrounded by an all-over geometric pattern. ...