Antique Persian Mahal Rug, Perpetually Posh Meets Ivy League Style

74581 Vintage Persian Mahal Rug, 05’01 x 09’11. Perpetually posh meets Elizabethan style in this hand knotted wool vintage Persian Mahal rug. The eye-catching decorative details and...

78570 Antique Persian Bakhtiari Rug, 09'10 x 12'10. Step into a world of cultivated grandeur with this hand-knotted wool antique Persian Bakhtiari rug—a rare heirloom that speaks in ...

76317 Vintage Persian Mahal Rug with English Traditional Style 09'08 x 13'05. ​​With its timeless design and architectural elements of naturalistic...

74415 Rare Vintage Persian Mahal Rug, 10'08 X 14'01. Emanating an aura of quiet sophistication and storied grace, this hand-knotted wool vintage Persian Mahal rug captures the poetry...

An antique Persian Mahal accent carpet. There are three vertical design axes with rosette bosses and angular undulating vines on the closely decorated warm madder red field of this P...

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...

Very beautiful late 19th century Malayer rug with beautiful geometrical and stylised design and nice natural colors, entirely hand knotted with wool velvet on cotton foundation. ✨✨✨...

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, ...