11057 · 9' x 12'6" Persian Sarouk Oversized Rug
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A deep navy medallion glows at the heart of this remarkable rug. On a brick field, graceful leafy branches and flowering sprays in blue and cream bend in curves out to a stepped, lobed edge. The navy medallion is a lobed diamond with a cream serrated outline, holding a central rosette ringed by four small palmettes. Small teardrop pendants sit above and below it. Cream spandrels fill the four corners with blossoms, leaves and red and blue boteh, the paisley leaf-drop. The handsome main border sets red cartouches with blue rosettes against navy, linked by a cream scrolling line. Narrow guard stripes of small blue flower heads and leafy vines run on either side of it. The pile is low across the rug, with a few thinner spots at two border corners. It brings brick and navy into a dining room, and the cream corners lighten all that red. At 9' by 12'6", it fits a dining table for six with the chairs pulled out, or a full living room seating group.
Every 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 & cleaned. It ships folded and fully insured.
About Sarouk rugs
Arak was founded only in 1808, as the town of Sultanabad, the name the carpet trade went on using. 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 worked in curves. This rug shares that floral field, its sprays and leafy branches bending in curves across the brick ground and around the navy medallion. Its cream corners carry blossoms and boteh, and the main border sets red cartouches against navy, so the outer frame repeats the colors of the center.
Shipping & delivery
Shipping is free and fully insured in the US and Canada. To the UK, the European Union, Australia and New Zealand we ship fully insured, with rates calculated at checkout. Orders are processed and shipped within one to four days and most arrive within about ten days, sometimes as fast as three depending on your location, carefully wrapped, with tracking sent the moment your rug leaves us.
Full shipping detailsAuthenticity
Every rug is an original, hand-knotted vintage piece, never machine-made, printed or reproduced. We inspect and photograph each rug in our own studio, so the piece you see is the exact piece you receive.
Our authenticity promiseCare & cleaning
Vacuum gently, rotate every few months, blot spills immediately and use a quality rug pad. Have it professionally cleaned every few years, never machine-washed.
Full care guideReturns
If a rug isn’t right for your space, get in touch within 7 days of delivery (14 days in the European Union) and we’ll help arrange a return or exchange. Because each piece is one of a kind, we handle every return personally.
Returns & exchangesMade entirely by hand.
Every knot in this rug was tied by hand, one at a time, on an upright loom. A piece like this is the work of two or three weavers sitting side by side for months, wool worked row by row into a pattern carried from memory, its colors softened by decades of light and use. Nothing about it was quick, and no two are ever the same.
The kind of thing that only gets better with age, and quietly passes from one home to the next.
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