6'10" x 7'6" Persian Sarough Rug | Allover Floral Panel Design | Near Square, Circa 2000

This 6'10" x 7'6" Persian Sarough is only 8 inches off being a true square, which makes it one of those rugs that solves a room nobody else can help with: a seating area built around a square coffee table, a breakfast room with a round pedestal table, or a landing where a long rectangle would look wrong. The field is a warm rose red with a salmon cast, filled edge to edge with detached floral sprays in navy, ivory and green, and framed by a wide ivory border of blossoms and small vases. The pile is 3/8" wool on a cotton foundation, woven around 2000, and the rug has been kept in excellent condition with full even pile and clean ivory fringe. Buyers looking specifically at square Persian rugs will recognise how hard this proportion is to find in genuine village and workshop weaving. Every rug we ship carries our certificate of authenticity.

Design and Motifs

The field is drawn as an allover floral panel rather than a single medallion. Thin red vine lines divide the ground into large ogival compartments, and each compartment holds its own bouquet: 8 petal rosettes, curled serrated leaves, carnations, small palmettes and long stemmed blossoms that read almost like cut flowers laid on the ground. At the center of the rug a slightly larger rosette and leaf cluster anchors the composition, with 2 pointed lobes reaching toward the top and bottom ends so the eye still finds a vertical axis. The main border is the classic Sarouk arrangement, an ivory ground carrying alternating blossom heads and small flowering vases on a slender brown vine, flanked inside and out by navy guard stripes of running leaf and rosette and a fine reciprocal zigzag line. Because the drawing repeats in 4 corners and mirrors across both axes, the rug looks correct from any seat in the room, which matters on a near square format where no one direction is the obvious front.

Color: Rose Red Field, Ivory Border, Navy and Green Detail

The ground is a soft rose red with a salmon undertone, the shade collectors associate with Sarouk weaving, lighter and warmer than the deep blood reds of Kashan or Mashad and easy to pair with cream walls, oak floors and walnut furniture. Against it the bouquets are worked mainly in dark navy blue, which carries the outlines and the heavier leaf masses, with ivory and beige used for the small flower heads so the pattern stays legible from standing height. Mid tone light blue and a muted sea green appear inside the blossoms and leaves, and there are small flecks of brown, soft gold and a dusty pink through the vinework that keep the field from looking flat. The wide border reverses the balance: an ivory ground with pink and rose flower heads, teal and green leaves and rust brown stems, so the rug ends on a light frame rather than a dark one. Anyone shopping red Persian rugs for a warm, lived in room will find this one of the friendlier reds in the group.

Sarough Origin and Weaving Quality

Sarough, also spelled Sarouk, is a weaving town in the Arak district of west central Persia, part of the same group of villages that produced Mahal and Sultanabad work. The town built its name on 2 things: tough, springy local wool and a floral vocabulary borrowed from the city workshops but simplified for durable village looms. The result is the type you see here, a dense Persian knot on a cotton foundation with a low 3/8" pile, heavy in the hand and known for surviving decades of family traffic without losing drawing. The back of this piece shows tight, regular knotting and straight, even selvages, the marks of a weaver working to a proper cartoon rather than from memory. If you want the longer history of the town, the trade routes and the design types, our guide to Persian Sarough rugs covers it in detail. In this near square format, woven around 2000 and still in excellent condition, it is the kind of honest workshop rug that gets used daily and handed down.