{"product_id":"11057-9x12-persian-handmade-sarouk-vintage-rug","title":"11057 - Persian Sarouk Oversized Rug 9' x 12'6\"","description":"\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArak 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.\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":68009002008889,"sku":"AL_11057_275x380","price":2800.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1005\/6964\/5369\/files\/11057_1.jpg?v=1794095211","url":"https:\/\/storiedrugs.com\/products\/11057-9x12-persian-handmade-sarouk-vintage-rug","provider":"Storied Rugs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}