11'6" x 20'6" Persian Sarouk Rug | Peach Field All-Over Floral | Antique 1930s

This is a genuine 1930s antique, a true gallery-length Sarouk measuring 11'6" x 20'6" and covering better than 235 square feet of floor. The wool has the glassy sheen that only 90 years of use and careful washing produce, and the peach ground has softened unevenly across the length in the way old vegetable-dyed wool always does. It survives in excellent condition, with the pile still full enough to read every leaf tip and the ivory cotton fringe intact at both ends. Pieces of this scale were woven for large formal rooms, and among oversize Persian rugs a genuine pre-war Sarouk in this length is uncommon. Every rug ships with a certificate of authenticity documenting origin, age, materials and knotting.

Design and Motifs

The field carries the classic Sarouk formula: detached floral sprays and bouquets floating on an open ground rather than a single central medallion. Large 8 petal rosettes anchor the repeat, with feathered palmettes, tulip forms, serrated olive leaves and small curling vine tips filling the space between them. Look closely and you will see the dotted vine chains, strings of small navy dots that arc between the bouquets and give the drawing its rhythm. The layout mirrors across both the width and the length, so the design reads correctly from either end of the room. Framing it is a wide indigo main border of turned palmettes and blossoms in gold, ivory and apricot, set between narrow reciprocal guard stripes and a fine outer stripe that holds the whole 20'6" length together visually.

Peach, Indigo and Olive Green

The ground is peach, a warm salmon-apricot that reads pink in daylight and closer to soft terracotta under lamps, with visible abrash running in horizontal bands where one dye lot met the next. Against it the drawing is worked in two distinct blues: a deep indigo used for outlines, stems and the darkest petals, and a clearer mid blue used for the open blossom heads and leaves. Olive green carries the larger serrated leaves and softens into a dull gold where the wool has burnished. Small accents of rust, brick and ivory pick out flower centers. The border reverses the scheme entirely, putting gold, ivory, apricot and rust flowers onto a near-black indigo ground, which is what gives the rug its depth from across a large room.

Sarouk Weaving in Central Persia

Sarouk is a village in the Arak district of central Persia, and the weavers there built their reputation on a heavy, tightly packed wool pile over a cotton foundation, a rug made to be walked on for generations rather than admired from a distance. The 1930s output, woven when demand from American importers was at its height, is the period collectors chase: good local wool, hand-spun warps, and floral drawing that stayed disciplined even at palace lengths like this one. The weave here is even from selvage to selvage across 11'6", with no bowing and no obvious change of hand, which on a rug this long means an experienced team stayed with the loom start to finish. For more on how period, wool and construction combine into an age estimate, see our guide on how to date an Oriental rug, and our Persian Sarouk rugs guide.