Ancient village, Sarooq that described by Arab geographer MostofiGhazvini in fourteenth century, is located about 40 kilometers north of SoltanAbaad and Sarooq name is linked with kind of a rug that was weaving numerous based on European merchants. Strength of structure, beauty of design and sweet colors that was chosen through the light shadows, were the reasons that Sarooq rugs were exported to the west and especially America more than any kinds of rugs in nineteenth and early twentieth century.
The warp in Sarooq rug is cotton and the knot is asymmetric with variable density between 1600 to 4900 knots in each square decimeter and two cotton wefts, one is limp and the other is stiff that sometimes they are in pink or cobalt-blue and cross through the warps.
In instances, after each five or ten wates , the third supplement weft will be added. Accuracy in texture and plenty weft, makes significant compression in Sarooq rugs but the quality of used materials mostly causes that the rug become thin and worn faster by passing time. The design used in this rug although is different but always is flowering and is being helped by bergamot designs on the light or blue background that long appendixes weave at the both end continue to next to the margins. The corners
have imaginary pictures that are different from the shape of a quarter of bergamot that was common formerly.
Flowering design in messy background was so usual and cause the distinction of American Sarooq rugs: the idea of this design was by the merchants of Taapsahandchian company in new York that was a design with big flowering branches collected together to build a bergamot in center and pervade symmetrically in whole pink background that was said Doughi. The common pattern in margin is Herati design that ShahAbbasi flowers connected to meandrous stems is seen in them that this design is called Samovari in local language .other samples is available that have margins with different designs that are created with rose and Greek wavy flowers or a combination of rose flowers and buds. Smaller margins that are usually two or four have apple flowers, pillar bushes or bergamot. Coloring is an important phenomenon in creating grace in Sarooq rugs.
Because of the large productions that happened in this area, using natural colorant in this region was useable more than any other places and these situations had made by company named Ziglar.
Grapes leaf with Ronas were used to achieve the yellow color, whereas leafs of oak tree with pomegranate hull create a cream color spectrum of beige color. The especial pink color used in these rugs that is known as Dooghi, is made by coloring wool with colorant and color reducers directly. Thus they floated the wool in color bath for two hours that this color bath included alum, ronas and yogurt or doogh (yogurt drink). After two hours, strings of wools left hours under running water to loss their color and achieve to a spectrum of pink.
There are rugs like American Sarooq ones with lower delicacy in adjacent centers namely MoshkAbad and Moal were woven.
