Antique Red Afghan Carpet with Traditional Ersari Design

Antique Afghan carpet with traditional Ersari design, this carpet has superb colour with a very good warm rich red field. The carpet has three r...

Old Red Afghan carpet with traditional design, this carpet has superb colour with a very good deep rich red and a deep indigo blue. The carpet retains t...

Antique Afghan village rug of traditional Ersari Turkmen design of small square size. The rug has 2 rows of 4 very large Ersari Turkmen guls, the rug has a warm madder red ground,...

An antique Ersari Turkmen main carpet from Northern Afghanistan. This fine carpet has three rows of eight large guls with a diamond shaped minor gu...

An antique Ersari Turkmen main carpet from Northern Afghanistan. This fine carpet has three rows of eight large guls with a diamond shaped minor gu...

Old Turkish Kayseri carpet with traditional all over floral design on a light ivory ground. The carpet has a light pastel palette with a very...

The rich brownish red field supports three columns of octagonal guls detailed in burnt apricot, green and dark blue-green. The stepped lozenge border is similarly colored and so are ...

A finely hand-knotted vintage Central Anatolian rug from 1960s. The rug has even low wool pile on cotton foundation. It is heavy and lays flat on the floor, in very good condition wi...

Handmade Oriental wool area rug, Traditional Afghan carpet rug- 200x300cm This fine oriental rug was handwoven in Turkey in the 1990s with the finest organic materials. The central...

Handmade vintage Afghan Ersari small rug in original good condition. The rug has been made in Afghanistan, it is from circa1960s. -condition: original good, -circa: 1960s, -size:...

This usefully narrow kenare (runner) shows a traditional, ever-popular design of cascading, upright, stylised and footed botehs on a light ground. Geometric main border of rosettes, ...

This design of the Turkish carpets is most distinctive and is known as prayer designs for over a thousand years. One can find the connotation of the design back to ancient, where the architectural plan was coined and implemented by designers for the carpets and rugs. Ancients believed the ideal place for paradise is through a gate to unspoiled nature where one's soul is guided by Mithraist ideals. One can easily observe the resemblance of the church's gate to the paradisal gate which is well over 7000 years old. Usually, this design is accompanied by the two vertical columns and supplemented by the lights in between the columns as you can see on this golden-red rug. The purpose of it is to guide one's soul, which within ancient philosophy we are fighting evil every day through the dark and lightness. There are a few borders on this gold rug, which are woven in similar patterns and colors. This woven rug could be used as a prayer carpet rug. Antique oriental rugs would complement your home as floor rugs too. These natural rugs look beautiful and would Stand out as hallway rugs or living room rugs. These washable rugs are one of a kind and cannot be found in every rug warehouse or rug store. Red antique rugs...