$9,675. A warm salmon-red field is set with detached floral sprays and palmettes in navy, gold and cream, each motif floating free rather than joined by vine, beneath a deep navy border of linked blossoms. This particular treatment was developed expressly for the American market: importers found the original ground too austere for New York taste and the detached-spray field too pale, so carpets were painted after weaving to deepen the red, a practice that ran from roughly 1910 to 1930 and gave the type its distinctive saturated colour. The style dominated fashionable interiors through those decades and remains among the most companionable of traditional patterns. Design pattern: Detached floral sprays on an open field, Sarouk. Size: 9'1" x 11'11". Gallery Collection.