Wonderful Antique Sarouk Ferahan Rug

Exquisite antique Sarouk Ferahan carpet, intricately handwoven towards the late 19th century. This stunning piece features a symmetrical, stylized floral motif with a central white m...

Nice distressed farahan rug with beautiful design and nice natural colors, entirely and finely hand knotted with wool velvet on cotton foundation. ✨✨✨ "Experience the epitome of lux...

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

Beautiful early 20th century rug from Kurdistan, with nice Herati design, lovely French Savonnerie style borders, with natural with dark blue field, pink, red, blue, green and brown,...

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...

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, ...

A turn of the 20th century Persian Sarouk Ferehan rug. The finely woven antique Sarouck Ferahan carpets of the 19th century were designed for the Persian aristocracy, who valued t...

A turn of the 20th century Persian Sarouk Ferehan square room size rug. Measures: 10'7'' x 12'9'' The finely woven antique Sarouck Ferahan carpets of the 19th century were designed...