10' x 13'4" Persian Sarouk Rug | All Over Floral Blue Field | 1960s, Excellent Condition

Woven in the 1960s and cared for ever since, this 10' x 13'4" piece carries the flowing all over floral drawing that collectors look for in Persian Sarouk rugs, set on a deep indigo field inside a wide camel ivory border. The wool pile is still full and lustrous, the cotton foundation lies flat and true, and the ivory fringe at both ends is original and untrimmed. At 120 by 160 inches it fills a full living or dining floor, which places it in the most requested 10x13 Persian rug range. It ships with a certificate of authenticity.

Design and Motifs

There is no central medallion. The field is built as a continuous lattice of curving vines that repeat in mirrored pairs outward from the center, each vine carrying serrated red palmettes, ivory lotus blossoms, 8 petal rosettes and long sickle leaves. Smaller saffron and rust buds fill the spaces between, so almost no ground is left bare, yet the drawing never feels crowded because every element sits on its own stem. All 4 corners resolve cleanly into a matching vine head rather than being cut off, which is a mark of a properly drawn cartoon. The main border runs a repeating sequence of large palmettes and curling acanthus leaves on camel ivory, flanked by narrow madder red guard stripes filled with a reciprocal ivory and blue flowerhead pattern, with a fine outer minor border of small blossoms closing the composition.

A Deep Indigo Field Framed in Camel Ivory

The field reads as a saturated indigo that shifts toward royal blue wherever the light runs down the pile, a soft tonal movement that comes from hand dyed wool and hand knotting rather than from wear. Against that ground the palette stays warm: madder red palmettes, ivory and cream blossoms, sage and bottle green leaves, saffron gold buds, pale sky blue highlights and dark chocolate outlines that keep every flower crisp at a distance. The border reverses the relationship, putting navy and red drawing onto a camel ivory ground so the blue field is framed instead of repeated, and the red guard stripes give the eye a clean edge between the two. Green is used as an accent only, in leaf tips and flower centers, and it is what stops the whole rug from reading as a simple two color scheme.

Sarouk Weaving in Central Persia

Sarouk is a weaving village north of Arak in central Persia, and its looms have always worked in a city idiom: the Persian knot on a cotton foundation, curvilinear drawing taken from workshop cartoons rather than village memory, and heavy regional wool that gives the pile its weight. That combination is why Sarouk rugs hold their shape and their pile decade after decade, and why so many pieces from the 1960s still present with a dense, even surface like this one. The back shown here is clear and regular, with the knot rows tight enough to carry the fine vinework without blurring it. If you want to understand how weavers, dyes and structure are used to date an Oriental rug, this piece is a textbook example of mid century central Persian work.