That Jilly, is in my opinion a remarkable design and color sarouk. I would ask for more photos. Appears to be 1940's-50s. Outstanding design execution, but could have some lower pile. it appears to have a tag on it. Can you ask them what it says, why they're selling and how they plan to ship?

I can see there is some lower area, and bright red rugs almost always photograph better with sunlight. ask for more photos. Lower left seems to have some haze. Upper right had a little too. It's a beautiful design though.

OMG really? I am such a dunce. I already mailed them and pasted it. Pls look at their feedback, Pro, it is way scary stuff. And if this is so wut they say, how can U explain the price?????????????

I just put the images in my HDD and will now blow them all up to the max. That is what I do now.

I do see the wefts are blue like I now remember mine were. But I thought they were all blue. I now know most are white. So only Saoruks have this blue? Why are they blue?

A lot of them have to do with the condition that had not been described. It would be a risk, but providing it looks like a good candidate after some questions, I would go from there. With something like this, I believe PayPal will cover you but it may be a lot of paper work. This kind of feedback should be factored into the offer price.

Ok I am afraid 2 get excited. And I must clear my head cause this don fit my ideal Sarouk Vision.....based on two rugs, but still......

Now, I blew up image of back and those geometrics I saw are there, I circled the area. also we can see the "catching" of the ends as mentioned. I circled in black. If that....is "catching" I could do it in my sleep. Don look very secure or professional to me, boy.

Are you sure any vintage Sarouk had those geometrics???????

Black circle on the top is the overcasting. That's to keep the ends from losing knots. If both ends are intact that's good.

No, I knew what the catching they mentioned was....cause now, I have learned that. I just did not think it was that crudely done is all.

Wut up with the inconsistencies & gaps in the border design I circled?????? (I hope U R asleep now; I am being terrible pest, boy.)

Can I hire someone to answer that email form Mitch? Kidding. I do everything myself to the extent I can manage.

it may be that the border was painted too. worth asking about. don't forget, it is hand knotted

I don see the halos. I wanna see them. How many Hail Marys do I gotta say to see these?

So you are saying that the dark CURVILINEAR accents were painted and they missed some? That.....is a very smart postulation. I do not mind anomalies and also like asymmetry whch my Amy Winehouse rug has bigtime like all Luri designs do.....I liked that rug I posted recently, cause I found some in the design. Then I read and posted they were purposeful cause only God is perfect and the artisans did not wanna diss God in the rendering of thes lovely but not Godlike rugs.

But what you came up with on this...I never would have in a million centuries. And it may well be right!!!!! Formidable!!!!!!

Small is just fine.mY rug had a coupla lower than the rest areas....but you hadda get down and look closely to see them.. THE HUGE sarouk in our livingroom had none at all. I had no clue that was some big deal. Let me try to blow this up.

Soon I will answer that email. But not right this second. I feel moved to wake him up. For HIS sake. But that will require voluminous email cause the "ice' is very, very thin.

This one has similar characteristics in the border

It also seems to have had a luster wash

Ok first....this vendor says they did nothing but basic washing. I do not see it gleaming. I see NO LUSTER. I siill don kow what luster wash is, but I know it's chicanery. Pls tell me why you think it has this luster wash? Mine was washed by two humans with plain soap and water on the floor of the place on Madison ave. Or maybe it was Lexington. I can't remember. but it was not on the street leve, U hadd take elevator up.. I saw part of the washing.

Next, I never saw that big Sarouk before1! It reminds me of our huge one.....cept our huge one was deeper red and it had classic navy field in the borders and no pale blue. It had vibrant jewel tone accent colors. Golds, turquoise, etc. Way too much for my apartment livingroom, The one I kept was perfect.

But that is lovely Sarouk, I think. Probably worth close to what they wanted for it. And unusual but still classic.

U mean the delusional rug? hahahah. Almost no similarities in the ways that matter. NOT IN PERSON. It was limp, the field detials more formal and less crisp and kinda melting into the field....and the condition bore no relationship at all to either my rug or any rug I would allow in here......my emotional well being is too important to me. I feel BAD EOUGH FOR THE WHOLE WORLD, to have some RUG I PITY. I use the word lifeforce a lot. It is not an unfathomable element. This thing had none at all owing to many factors spanning many decades.

Truly if someone GAVE me the rug, I would sell it for anything the first person who offered something would offer. I would never live with it.

This current form the garbage rug is eroding.....cause it unimaginably ugly......and not in fierce, fabulous way, ugly, like the Winehouse rug which has life. I wanna see that rug. But at least the garbage rug it is not dying, has not know misery and abuse.

The rug appeared to have endured terrible tribulations in its life and it had critical mass defeatism. I am not kidding. First second I saw it, I did not want it, and felt pity for it....and that was before all the condition issues were seen closeup. It was wiggly....meaning it did not even have the substance to lay flat and not because of its trapezoid issue. It was limp. And thin. Mine had substance and density and health. It would never have not lain llat in any way on any surface. For me, rugs do not need to be perect...but they should have pile and health and substance. If they don't, U should velcro them to the ceiling. lol

Now....I blew up yr last marked with the halo image. I think I see it but not sure. I will upload. I just looked at it uploaded. I believe U are sayin that the kinda orange color around the details is where they missed it when painting? Believe it or not, I would prefer the red I now get is painted... to be less blue-red and more orange-red!!!