Another from that vendor who has put up others I found shocking....photographs them outdoors which is not a bad idea:

http://rover.ebay.com/ro...9&mtid=824&kw=lg

Just remembered, Mitch, the man trying to sell the one I saw yesterday, asked me why I didn't go for the one on ebay with the 3K buy now price? I din know which one he meant. Now I see it.

Bad rug. Maybe condition not as terrible as some of the era, also not great, but: terrible, impoverished colors, they say it was painted, I can not believe that, my takes is painted did not fade; overdone, capricious florid meandering in every design detail; and weak & arbitrary borders which neither frame nor support the field.

No decent CHOREOGRAPHY, And no real essence.

Then, there is that the ends are "overrated" (as is the entire rug)...I now know what they mean by that; and they have final sale, no return. Not very warm and fuzzy. Nor is the rug.

Obviously, only my opinions.

Ditto again. I WANT MY RUG BACK, HOW CAN I MANAGE THAT?

Joke of pain.....cause at least twice a day now, it blossoms in me anew......with the more I learn and see. I am trying to let it go.

Now....I am apparetnly still cluelss aobut the painting. I thought that the original imports to America failed cause they were puerile pink and tepid. the field color. then, people with brushes spent years making the field colors deeper and richer and more vivid and with not vegetable dye, but some kinda indelible dye---I am not up to dyes yet--..and then Americans of that era fell i love with those rugs and everyone wanted one.

Wow! That is yet aother priceless delineation! And with amazing visuals! But.....now that I understand a little more about this, if the two Saoruks I grew up with showed NONE of what I see n the tutorial.....but, given their colors and circas, the huge one was more vivid and it's red far more rich burgundy tha the red in the one I kept....BOTH must have been painted....how come there was nothing in either of the Sort I see in the tutorial? No halos, nothing remotely like that!!!!

Really???? I think the ones I grew up with were painted, and, now, it seems, really well. Re stripping....if it ain broke DO NOT FIX IT. I mean they were tampered with originally....do not STRESS THEM FURTHER.

When I had mine washed...din know I should have left the less than perfect original fringes....it came back perky, the pile more resilient feeling & springy when you brushed yr palm over it, & IT GLEAMED ..all the colors were more apparent but they were the same colors.

I even went up there while it was being washed just to see what that was like and what it involved! Then, they just let it air dry for as long as was necesSary....a long time.

Then, they brought it back.