11233 · 10'2" x 13'5" Persian Sarouk Oversized Rug
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The deep violet glow of this lovely rug is what catches the eye first. From across a room the field reads plum, and closer in it is a violet ground scattered with flowering branches and sprays in brown, aubergine and lavender. At the center sits a handsome stepped medallion with a brown outline, holding a spiky aubergine core around a small flower head. Small pendants sit above and below it. Notched spandrels close the four field corners, each holding a dark aubergine band of flowers. The main border has a near-black aubergine ground carrying large violet rosettes and plum flower heads. Narrow guard stripes of small violet and aubergine motifs run on both sides of it. The pile is low across the rug. It slips into a room of pale walls and dark wood, letting the violet field and aubergine border carry the color. At 10'2" by 13'5", 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 keeps that floral field, with flowering branches and sprays spreading out on all sides of the medallion. Its palette sets a violet field against a near-black aubergine border, with brown, plum and lavender picked out in the flowers. The stepped medallion and its notched spandrels give the scattered sprays a firm frame.
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.
Rugs in their new homes
“Perfect! Clean, just as pictured, great customer service with the questions I had”
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“This rug is super cute and arrived fast.”
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“Gah! I’m in love! Clean and arrived quickly. Thank you!”
“Just the perfect rug! I love everything about it.”
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“The rug is in pristine condition! It’s beautiful, better than described.”
“The colors and quality is just what I hoped for!”
