Antique Persian Malayer Rug with Sarouk Design and Neoclassical Style

78201 Antique Persian Malayer rug, 12'08 x 20'05. Classic elegance and effortless beauty, this hand-knotted wool antique Persian Malayer rug is poised to impress. A traditional all-o...

78029 Antique Persian Sarouk rug with Jacobean Style 04'02 x 06'06. With timeless floral design and a traditional color palette, this hand knotted wool antique Persian Sarouk rug is ...

78223 antique Persian Sarouk room size rug 10'01 x 16'08. Rendered in variegated shades of red, navy blue, brown, royal blue, cerulean, tan, pink, rose, and taupe with other accent ...

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...

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 beautiful early 20th century Persian Sarouk Mahal rug with an all-over floral pattern with myriad flowers and thin scrolling vines woven in indigo, brow...

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...

The geographical region of Northwest Persia with its’ cities and villages was at the forefront of the large-scale export of rugs and carpets in the late 19th century. The merchants ...