RugPro wrote:Jilly wrote:Either shoot me.....or shoot the vipers. Sumthin needs shooting.
lol, I kinda like it, although I wouldn't call this a sarouk from the photographs but I would have to see the pile. Weave, design and colors seems more like a unique 1920's kerman. It's unusual to see a cloudband in a Sarouk. I think the contrast may have been bumped on the medallion pic.
CLOUDBAND!!!! Is a product of Global warming? What is a cloudband???? Is it a weapon of mass destruction???? Or something in the border? which could also be a WMD, who knows???
Bettcha this was custom made rug. Did they commission those in first part of 20th century from artisans in Persia? The NY importers? And are you saying re contrast bump, in person it might be even more tepid and embalmed than it appears in those images?
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Just looked again. I stand by my guardstripe comments. Not that I knew that term before seeing their description. I have seen two, I now get, fabulous Sarouks from the late 20s or 30s, not sure.. Not a spec of brown or beige in either. Not one mm. Not part of their personality. Not those wiht this ostensible color scheme. To me, the whole rug looks treated or suspiciusly consistently faded. That "beige" was once golden. Am I wrong? For a change?