Sarouk Mohajiran Feraghan. The blue field woven with flowering fan palmettes extending to a central floral spray and flower-filled urns within rust flowering palmette and vine border by blue and ivory guard borders. The source of this important provenance has been in the village of Sarouk. North of Arak (formerly Sultanabad). Sarouks are known to be of high quality. The pile is usually higher than the average Persian rug and therefore Sarouks are rather heavy and solid rugs, the wool being used is high quality durable wool.
A very fine and unusual antique Persian Feraghan Sarouk featuring an elegant Tree of Life design rising from a flowering garden mound against a luminous ivory field. At the center stands a magnificent cypress-like flowering tree populated with birds and floral ornament, flanked below by a pair of peacocks rendered in rich shades of sapphire blue, rose, ivory, and soft green.
The spacious ivory field creates a striking contrast with the intricately drawn midnight-blue border, which is filled with scrolling vinery, palmettes, rosettes, and flowering arabesques.
10' x 13'7" Antique Persian heriz carpet, C-1910 with chromatic multi colors over bright red background field the rug is surrounded by very unusual attractive wide border.
The city of Sultanabad (which is now known as Arak) was founded, in the early 1800s, as a center for commercial rug production in Iran. During the late 19th century, the firm of Hotz and Son and Ziegler and Co. established a manufacturer in Arak / Sultanabad whose sole objective was to produce rugs to meet the western demands.
This impressive antique Persian Bijar carpet is an outstanding example of the famous weavings from the Kurdish weaving center of Bijar, often referred to as the "Iron Rugs of Persia" because of their exceptionally dense construction and remarkable durability.
This magnificent antique Persian Sarouk Mohajeran carpet is an exceptional example of the finest weaving tradition from the Mohajeran village near Sarouk. Woven around 1910, during the golden age of Mohajeran production, it represents one of the highest grades of Sarouk weaving, prized for its lustrous hand-spun wool, dense construction, elegant floral drawing, and remarkable durability.
The city of Tabriz is situated in North West Persia and it is one of the largest cities and also the capital in the province of Azerbaijan and was the earliest capital of the Safavid dynasty and it can claim to have been a center of carpet production longer than any other city in Iran. The population comprising of the Azaris, who are the largest ethnic minority in Iran and speak the Turkish dialect. The city is old and has for centuries been a very important trading place and border station. A good Tabriz has a short and rough pile
