{"product_id":"11031-7x10-persian-handmade-sarouk-vintage-rug","title":"11031 - Persian Sarouk Area Rug 6'9\" x 10'4\"","description":"\u003cp\u003eA dark, flower-filled medallion holds the heart of this lovely rug. At the center, it sits on a deep red field that reads burgundy from across a room, among sprays of blossoms and curling vines. Its four rounded lobes hold rose and cream flowers on a near-black ground, around a rose core set with blue blossoms. Pointed pendants edged in cream reach up and down the field. Handsome cream spandrels fill the four corners with clusters of blue blossoms. A beautiful main border runs on a near-black ground, carrying rose and cream flower heads among curling leaves. Narrow cream guard stripes, set with small red flowers, run on either side, and a red band closes the outer edge. The pile is low across the rug. It settles a room with warm red and near-black, while the cream corners and blue blossoms keep it light. At 6'9\" by 10'4\", it fits a living room with the front legs of the sofa and chairs on the rug, or beside a queen bed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe biggest exporter of oriental carpets from Persia in the late 19th century was the Ziegler company of Arak, the town then called Sultanabad. A hundred hamlets and villages within a day’s journey of Sultanabad wove rugs for its market, by the count of Walter Hawley, writing in 1913. Sarouk sits in the Arak district of central Persia and gave its name to one of the most exported Persian rugs of the twentieth century. The type has a floral field on rose or deep madder, worked in curves. This rug shares that field, its deep red ground covered in blossoms, sprays and scrolling vines that curl around the medallion. Its corners and border pick up the same flowers, in cream and blue against the near-black, so the flowers run all the way to the outer edge.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery rug we sell is one of a kind, and this is the only one like it. Hand-knotted wool pile on a cotton foundation, vintage, approx. 50 years (1970s). Condition: professionally washed \u0026amp; cleaned. It ships folded and fully insured.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Storied Rugs","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68008531132729,"sku":"AL_11031_205x315","price":1600.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1005\/6964\/5369\/files\/11031_1.jpg?v=1794086794","url":"https:\/\/storiedrugs.com\/products\/11031-7x10-persian-handmade-sarouk-vintage-rug","provider":"Storied Rugs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}