Pretty Antique extremely fine silk foundation seneh rug

Very beautiful and very fine late 19th century Luxurious rug with a nice Boteh design, very decorative, with nice natural colors with red, orange, yellow, green and blue, entirely an...

Nice little late 20th century rug from Karachi Pakistan, with beautiful Persian design and nice colors, entirely hand knotted with and silk velvet on cotton foundation. ✨✨✨ "Experie...

Beautiful little 19th century rug with nice decorative design and natural colors, entirely hand knotted with wool velvet on cotton foundation.

Beautiful late 20th century silk rug, with inscription (Hereke), and beautiful Persian design and nice colors, entirely and finely hand knotted with silk velvet on silk foundation.

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...

An antique Persian Sarouk Fereghan accent rug handmade during the Early 20th century. Measures: 4' 3" x 6' 6"

An antique Persian Malayer accent rug. This is a town Malayer, not a rural one, with a well- drawn allover Herati pattern on an abrashed oyster to graphite field with accents in dark...