Vintage Indian Tabriz Rug, Stately Decadence Meets Preppy Formality

70265 Vintage Indian Tabriz Rug, 09’00 x 12’00. Traditional sensibility meets timeless elegance in this hand knotted wool vintage Indian Tabriz rug. The decorative botanical design ...

76210 Vintage Persian Kashan Rug, 10'06 x 17'01. Emanating a timeless design and beguiling beauty, this hand-knotted wool vintage Persian Kashan rug is poised to impress. The abrash...

75511 Vintage Persian Tabriz Area Rug with Traditional Colonial and Federal Style. This hand-knotted wool vintage Persian Tabriz rug features an allover pattern with geometric motifs...

?78360 Vintage Indian Tabriz wool and silk rug, 09'09 x 13'07. With timeless appeal and ornate decorative detailing, this wool and silk vintage In...

A wonderful late 20th century Indian Tabriz-style rug with a large central complex medallion woven with myriad stylized flowers and leaves, and woven in crimson, indigo, cream, gold,...

Very pretty late 19th century Tabriz rug with beautiful floral central medallion design and beautiful natural colors, entirely and finely hand knotted with wool velvet on cotton foun...

Beautiful vintage Tabriz rug with a red field and blue accents with a medallion design in the center, circa 1920 This rug measures 11' 7" x 15' 11".

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...