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• 4.5 million dollar Persian rug

  06.21.08 | Comment?

  The rug that sold for 4 and a half million dollars.

  In what was reputedly the biggest sale in Oriental and Persian rug history, Christie’s Auction house in New York sold a four-hundred-year-old silk Persian Isfahan carpet for a cool $4,450,500 earlier this month. The rug is 5′7″ by 7′7″ and is believed to have been […]

• Persian Rugs: Sarouk Rugs and Carpets

  10.26.07 | 13 Comments

  Indian Sarouk or Indo-Sarouk

  What is a Sarouk Rug?
  A Sarouk rug is a type of Persian rug originally woven in the Arak weaving district of Iran in the late 19th and early 20th century. Some are expensive: $45,000 to $60,000 for a great 9′ by 12′, for example. But what is the difference between a Ferahan […]

• Persian Rugs: The Elusive Ziegler Mahal Rug

  10.13.07 | 1 Comment

  There exists a cabal of antique rug dealers, new rug dealers, collectors, rug producers, rug writers and editors who cheerfully promote the notion that we can spot a Ziegler carpet a mile off. The truth is, we wouldn’t know an antique Ziegler Mahal rug if we tripped over it. And what sort of beast is […]