Is Persian Rug Export the Secret Behind the Global Popularity of Oriental Carpets?
Persian rugs are globally recognized for their intricate patterns and rich cultural background. While their beauty is rooted in ancient craftsmanship, their widespread availability today is largely due to the growing Persian Rug Export industry.
Historically, handwoven Persian rugs were luxury items used by the wealthy to bring elegance and tradition into their homes. Today, however, with the help of modern machinery, these iconic designs are being reproduced on a larger scale, making them more affordable for a wider audience.
Thanks to the booming Persian Rug Export, Iranian manufacturers now supply high-quality machine-made rugs to countries across the Middle East and Asia—including Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kashmir, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, and Kuwait. While some Western buyers may prefer minimalist or abstract styles, the demand for Persian rugs in many regions continues to grow steadily.
Many international buyers explore options through our Rug Wholesale page, where they can easily submit bulk orders via our dedicated order form.
Those looking for authentic, high-quality designs can browse the full collection of Iranian carpets by Shahrokh Company on our Persian Rugs page.
Whether displayed in a traditional setting or integrated into a modern home, each Persian rug carries a story. And through Persian Rug Export, that story is being told around the world.
Why Persian carpets are globally valued.
Persian carpets are defined by their design styles. The question is what properties make them unique and why this style is appreciated over boundaries of middle eastern countries? The answer may be in identity. The density of knots, knotting technics, floral motifs and medallions and finally the type of material such as wool and silk are beyond simple technical features of a textile product named Persian rugs. They give Persian rugs a kind of identity that reminds you of the authenticity, history and culture of specific people from countries like Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Export Persian rugs are ambassadors of Perian art and culture in the most peaceful possible way. Regardless of political conflicts, exportation of Persian carpets functions as the manifestation of mesmerizing Persian art and is appreciated globally because it has aesthetic beauty in its essence and can exist free of the appendages that may come from the differences in religion or geographical territories. The high exportation of Persian carpets confirms the acceptance of this oriental beauty by people who enquire their hearts not their strict religious or political values to appreciate beauty.
Shahrokh Rugs: A trusted name in Persian rug export
Shahrokh Carpet Company is one of the machine-made rug manufacturers in Iran, which has a long experience of exporting Persian rugs. The collections of this company includes a variety of Persian rug designs such as Tabriz, Isfahan, Nain, Heris, and Kashan woven with acrylic or viscose pile yarns. The viscose rugs manufactured by Shahrokh Company reflect a valuable treasure of Persian rugs especially silk Persian rugs woven in Qom, a small city in the middle of Iran, which has a global reputation for its silk handmade rugs. These viscose rugs are generally called silk rugs as they look as shiny and delicate as real silk hand made rugs. These machine-made silk rugs are woven by machines but since they are trimmed and washed by hand as they are trimmed and washed in traditional hand made rug industry. The delicate fringe and overlock of these machine silk rugs are done by hand, too. Skillful workers stitch their fringe in a time-consuming process done by hand.
Shahrokh company has been exporting a large percentage of its products to a wide variety of countries in Asia, Africa, Europe and even America. This valuable experience has some important advantages. First, Shahrokh rugs have been adapted to the requirements of consumers in the countries that import them. For example, as far as dimensions of rugs are concerned, Persian rug designs produced by Shahrokh Company are available in round numbers in both feet and meters as two measurement systems in the world. While customers from India prefer rugs in sizes in feet such as 4×6 feet, these dimensions are not standard or conventional in countries with metric system and that is why some manufactures avoid accepting such orders. Secondly, Shahrokh Company has managed to adapt itself with banking and shipment restrictions caused by international sanctions against Iran. Some merchants and big companies do not work with Iranian machine-made rug manufacturers because they cannot receive any remittance through bank accounts or do not know how to circumvent the American sanctions for shipping goods from Iran to their countries. Shahrokh Company has devised some legal methods of receiving money through bank accounts in other countries to facilitate financial transactions in the international markets.
How we export Persian rugs
Shahrokh Company attends international exhibitions such as DOMOTEX in Dubai and CFE in Istanbul to create the opportunity of face-to-face interaction with prospective customers. This persistent presentence gives those customers who are worried about coming to Iran this chance to communicate with the decision makers of Shahrokh Company in person and negotiate on their orders. In addition, Shahrokh Company has some sales assistants who communicate with customers on time and support them via WhatsApp. After receiving customers’ orders, they are submitted on computers and lists of Persian rugs with images are presented to the clients. When they confirm the pictorial lists, the production process starts. The designs must be converted into the clients’ favourite sizes in the design department.
Then they are woven by cutting-edge machines and finally they must be finished. The final products are usually labeled and packaged according to clients’ requirements. To circumvent some American sanctions, some customers request to use their own private labels that lack Persian words and any names of Shahrokh Company. The rug packages usually consist of two layers of plastic covers or a layer of canvas plus a plastic cover for machine-made silk rugs. The rugs are usually declared by Shahrokh Company in Kashan, where the company warehouse and headquarters are located. Then they are shipped to Bandar Abbas in the south of Iran or to any other borders of Iran according to the location of export destination. Because of international shipment restrictions against Iranian companies, most of export cargos are shipped to Jebel Ali Port in the United Arab Emirates and then they are reexported from Jebel Ali to the destination. Then the documents of cargo such as certificate of origin and bill of lading are switched in the name of a company in the UAE. Invoice and packing list are also typed on the pages with the letterhead of the company that owns the bank account and has received the money. In this way most of export Persian rugs reach destination overseas safely and are cleared from the customs administration.
The services discussed above are highly needed by wholesalers and importers of Persian rugs around the world, especially those who have to struggle with the shipment and banking challenges which are not usual in the international markets. Those foreign customers who have bitter experiences of importing machine made rugs from Iran value Shahrokh export services much more.
Shahrokh Company like most of other Persian rug manufacturers usually work with wholesalers because they are the customers who place bulk orders. They usually repeat their orders, and it is cost-effective to meet their specific needs regarding designs, colors and sizes.
On the other hand, wholesales would rather work with Shahrokh company because of several reasons. First, Shahrokh Company has a large design department consisting of about 25 designers who edit and modify designs according to the rug wholesalers’ needs. Just imagine a Indian wholesaler places an order of 8,000 square meters of silk machine-made rugs in sizes that have not been created before. Shahrokh Company has this competence to resize his favorite designs into dimensions that are not common. Although this task is time consuming and costly, Shahrokh Company accepts its responsibility. This designing advantage is not restricted to sizes. Some of the customers of Shahrokh customers from African countries sometimes want to make changes in some parts of routine Persian rug designs. They may want to change background colors or even to remove a medallion from a Persia rug design. These adjustments and even more ones are feasible in Shahrokh Company. Secondly, Shahrokh Company has 8 carpet weaving machines, and this equipment allows it to take big orders and produce them in a quite short time. Sometime Iranian rug manufacturers with only one machine enter the export market and receive bulk orders from international rug wholesalers, whish are larger than their own production capacity. If you are going to place a bulk order of machine-made rugs to Shahrokh Company, you could click on this link.
Conclusion
To summarize, Persian machine-made rugs are famous as a high quality and rather luxurious product around the world. More and more consumers are using this product in various countries thanks to the increase in export of Persian rugs. Persian rugs produced in Iran are usually appreciated because of the durability of their pile yarn and the design details and coloration that reflect the authenticity of Persian rugs. Shahrokh company supplies Persian rugs in a variety of types and styles and is quite competent in export methods. Wholesalers can rely on the experience and ability of this company to have headache- free purchase. For more information, you could always visit the website of Shahrokh Company especially its whole sage page or contact its international sales assistants online.
