Antique Persian Sarouk Farahan Rug

This highly desirable antique Persian Farahan rug with modern traditional style features an intricate center medallion in a navy blue field surrounded by red quarter panels. Rendered...

61112 Rare Late 19th Century Antique Persian Sarouk Farahan Rug, 04'00 x 06'08. Embark on a journey through Persian grandeur with this hand-knotted wool antique Sarouk Farahan rug, a...

This highly desirable antique Sarouk Persian rug with traditional style features an impressive all-over floral design rendered in a refined color palette, illuminating the allover de...

78229 Vintage Persian Sarouk Rug, 10'03 x 13'09. Bathed in the gentle radiance of a warm ivory-beige ground, this hand-knotted wool vintage Persian Sarouk rug reveals a composition t...

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...

:: Small Farahan Sarouk Ivory Circa 1900. Super unusual main design elements of shadowed samovar design with a repeating herati motif of pomegrana...

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, ...

Fine Antique Persian Farahan Sarouk Wool Rug 7'0" x 9’6”. The scatter and room size pieces made in the Arak/Sultanabad area, between 1880 and 1910, with firm and leathery well-woven ...