{"product_id":"11233-10x13-persian-handmade-sarouk-vintage-rug","title":"11233 - Persian Sarouk Oversized Rug 10'2\" x 13'5\"","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\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 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.\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":68028161982777,"sku":"AL_11233_310x410","price":3400.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1005\/6964\/5369\/files\/11233_1.jpg?v=1794188205","url":"https:\/\/storiedrugs.com\/products\/11233-10x13-persian-handmade-sarouk-vintage-rug","provider":"Storied Rugs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}