Bobyrug’s Pretty Vintage Pakistani Rug

Nice mid century rug with beautiful geometrical design and nice colors, entirely hand knotted with wool velvet on cotton foundation. ✨✨✨ "Experience the epitome of luxury and crafts...

Beautiful vintage Pakistani rug with nice Persian design rugs and nice colours with pink, white, sky blue and dark blue, entirely and finely hand knotted by wool and silk on cotton f...

Nice mid century rug with beautiful geometrical design and nice colors, entirely hand knotted with wool velvet on cotton foundation. ✨✨✨ "Experience the epitome of luxury and crafts...

Nice mid century rug with beautiful geometrical design and nice colors, entirely hand knotted with wool velvet on cotton foundation. ✨✨✨ "Experience the epitome of luxury and crafts...

78695 Vintage Beige Chinese Tabriz Rug, 02'02 x 03'03. Presenting a sublime testament to the artistry of a bygone era, behold this petite Chinese Tabriz rug, a paragon of Victorian e...

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, ...

Handmade vintage Persian Tabriz rug made in Kashmir wool. The rug is from the end of 20th century in original good condition. The rug is in traditional me...

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...