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Fine Rose Background Antique Ferahan Sarouk Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A very finely woven Sarouk Ferahan rug, decorated by a medallion and pendants pattern on a dark rose background. Ferahan Sarouks are representative of a classic group of turn of the ...
Category
Early 20th Century Azerbaijani Sarouk Farahan Central Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique White Ground Anatolian Kiz Ghiordes Rug
Located in Milan, IT
This example belongs to a specific family of late Ottoman Turkish rugs known by the term of Kiz Ghiordes. Distinguished by a double niche design on a white ground embellished by a pe...
Category
Early 20th Century Turkish Oushak Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Distressed Qajar Period Gallery Size Carpet with Kashmir Shawl Pattern
Located in Milan, IT
The finest Persianate weavings of the Qajar Dynasty are distinguished by patterns originating from the textile arts of the Indian Mughal court tradition. The so-called Kashmir shawls...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century Indian Khorassan Central Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Double Niche Geometric Design Armenian Caucasian Kazak Rug Dated 1895
Located in Milan, IT
An antique southwest Caucasian rug, belonging to the prestigious family of weavings known as Kazak. These are characteristically distinguished by abstract geometric patterns originat...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Armenian Kazak Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Fine Antique Tekke Turkmen Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A fine and small rug from the Tekke Turkmen tribe, located close to the border with the northeastern Persian province of Khorassan. The rugs of this tribe have always been highly pri...
Category
Early 20th Century Turkmen Tribal Central Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Fine Vintage Room Size Blue Ground Caucasian Shirvan Rug with All-Over Pattern
Located in Milan, IT
The last quarter of the 20th century has witnessed the revival of many of the most representative types of antique oriental rugs. The government of Russian Azerbaijan initiated a ser...
Category
Vintage 1970s Azerbaijani Bakshaish Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Fine Antique Large Size Caucasian Shirvan Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A finely knotted antique Caucasian Shirvan rug, distinguished by a rare large size. The pattern is composed of a series of five interconnected hexagonal devices with a stepped outlin...
Category
Early 20th Century Caucasian Kazak Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Middle Atlas Mrirt Moroccan Berber Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A delightful Berber rug originating from the Berber village of Mrirt decorated by four conjoined elements consisting of the chequerboard motif. The design appears as if it was carved...
Category
Vintage 1960s Moroccan Tribal Moroccan and North African Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Nichols & Co. Dark Aubergine Art Deco Carpet
By Nichols
Located in Milan, IT
Only a very limited group of the carpets woven during the thirties at the Tianjin city looms are decorated by patterns typical of the Art Deco period. Some of these rare pieces are k...
Category
Vintage 1930s Chinese Art Deco Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Mint Condition Caucasian Armenian Kazak Rug
Located in Milan, IT
An exquisite antique southwest Caucasian rug, belonging to the prestigious family of weavings known as Kazak. These are characteristically distinguished by abstract geometric pattern...
Category
Early 20th Century Armenian Kazak Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Fine White Ground Antique Ferahan Sarouk Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A very finely woven Sarouk Ferahan rug, decorated by a medallion and pendants pattern on an ivory background. Ferahan Sarouks are representative of a classic group of turn of the cen...
Category
Early 20th Century Azerbaijani Sarouk Farahan Central Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Fine Antique Square Size Large Scale All-Over Pattern Heriz Serapi Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A very finely woven Heriz of the Serapi kind, distinguished by an infinite repeat network of large scale, stylised leaves and palmettes on a terracotta red background. A very rare fe...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Azerbaijani Heriz Serapi Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Nichols & Co. Black Art Deco Chinese Rug
By Nichols
Located in Milan, IT
Only a very limited group of the carpets woven during the thirties at the Tianjin city looms are decorated by patterns typical of the Art Deco period. Some of these rare pieces are k...
Category
Vintage 1930s Chinese Art Deco Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Contemporary Narrow Moroccan Style Aqua Blue Runner Rug 2 x 10 feet
Located in Milan, IT
Hand-knotted with fine, lustrous Ghazni wool, Beni Aqua is part of the contemporary Moroccan collection of the Alberto Levi Gallery. Here, the honeycomb arrangement of large scale, w...
Category
2010s Afghan Tribal Moroccan and North African Rugs
Materials
Wool
Mid Century Modern Minimalist Indian Red Large Square Rug Monogrammed LS
Located in Milan, IT
A visually striking Indian modernist carpet distinguished by a bright red open field, framed by a wide and contrasting ivory border. Signed by the atelier on the top right outer guar...
Category
Mid-20th Century Indian Minimalist Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Aleppo Silk and Metal Thread Textile with Ottoman Multiple Niche Pattern
Located in Milan, IT
During the late 19th century Syria was an international hub for the manufacture and trade of fine hand-woven textiles. For centuries the skilled weavers located in the weaving centr...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Syrian Islamic Turkish Rugs
Materials
Metallic Thread
Antique Indigo Blue Afshar with Polychrome Ascending Tree Pattern
Located in Milan, IT
A very fine and early Afshar tribal rug, distinguished by a highly elegant ascending pattern of polychrome cypress trees set against an indigo blue background. This glorious example...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century Central Asian Tribal Central Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Rare Pair of Japanese Meiji Period Silver Thread Embroideries on Silk Velvet
Located in Milan, IT
A rare and exquisite pair of antique Japanese embroideries woven during the Meiji period (1868-1912), at a time when the Japanese arts and crafts had been discovered by a selected fe...
Category
Antique 1870s Japanese Meiji Textiles
Materials
Silver Leaf
Antique Tabriz Medallion Rug on a Soft Terracotta and Baby Blue Background
Located in Milan, IT
The revival of the Persian carpet tradition took place during the last quarter of the nineteenth century, guided principally by the Tabriz merchants, who developed what was basically...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Azerbaijani Tabriz Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Small Mahal Rug with a Large Scale All-Over Pattern
Located in Milan, IT
Anglo-Swiss firm Ziegler & Co. wove carpets in the Sultanabad region during the late nineteenth century, often featuring classic Persian patterns in highly refined colours. Their mas...
Category
Antique Early 1900s Azerbaijani Sultanabad Central Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Soft Teal Chinese Qing Dynasty Silk Brocade with Auspicious Symbols
Located in Milan, IT
Woven in the age of the third Qing Emperor Yongzheng (1722-35), this delicately coloured precious silk brocade is embellished by three parallel and offset rows of children holding a cornucopia of auspicious symbols. In the first horizontal row, the child is holding in one hand a closed lotus flower, symbol of honesty, goodness, beauty and purity, and in the other a stick which a pair of coins, an element belonging to the group of Eight Precious Things. The following row depicts the child holding on one hand the Paintings, one of the four symbols of literature and science, and a peach blossom on the other, a flower associated with Spring and rejuvenation. In between this main pattern we see an alternation of the bat motif (symbol of good luck), the plum blossom (symbolising the faithful, the resolute and the holy) and the butterfly (symbol of love, freedom, romance and beauty).
The subtle polychromy of soft tones of green and peach is punctuated with touches of royal Chinese blue...
Category
Antique Early 18th Century Chinese Qing Textiles
Materials
Silk
Fine Antique Afshar Rug with Lively Palette
Located in Milan, IT
A very finally knotted Afshar tribal rug, distinguished by an indigo blue background layered over a richly coloured reserve consisting of polychrome stripes. The vivid palette of nat...
Category
Antique 1880s Central Asian Tribal Central Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Mamluk Revival Egyptian Khedival Khayamiya Cotton Appliquè Hanging
Located in Milan, IT
Derived from the Arabic 'khayam' (tent), the Egyptian khedival khayamiya are elaborately hand-stitched appliquè cotton hangings, woven in the golden period between 1867 and 1914. Wha...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Egyptian Revival Tapestries
Materials
Cotton, Linen
Fine Antique Shirvan Rug with Stylised Animals and People
Located in Milan, IT
A charming indigo ground antique Shirvan rug, decorated by a central totemic-like element composed of an alternation of white and light blue hooked motif, flanked by a dense array of...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Caucasian Kazak Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Fine Senneh Rug with Herati Pattern
Located in Milan, IT
A fine Senneh rug characterised by a medallion and pendants pattern, this placed within an ivory cartouche layered over a blue background. The composition is completely filled by the...
Category
Antique Early 1900s Azerbaijani Tabriz Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Fine Antique Lavar Kirman Rug with Millefleurs Design
Located in Milan, IT
Sometimes referred to as Kirmanshah in the trade, rugs of this type are the finest nineteenth-century workshop weavings from the city of Kirman. This fine antique Lavar Kirman rug ex...
Category
Early 20th Century Azerbaijani Kirman Central Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Caucasian Shirvan Rug with Shield Pattern
Located in Milan, IT
A fine antique Shirvan rug, from the northeast Caucasus, distinguished by a directional all-over pattern of small shield-like elements. The honeycomb arrangement of this motif allows...
Category
Early 20th Century Caucasian Kazak Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Royal School of Needlework Rug for Vigo Gallery
Located in Milan, IT
Commissioned in the mid-1980s by the Vigo Carpet Gallery of London to the Royal School of Needlework, this needlepoint signalled a brief revivalist period in England for needlepoints...
Category
Vintage 1980s English Victorian Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
Charming Old Miniature Moroccan Berber Rug with Abstract Geometric Pattern
Located in Milan, IT
A very charming miniature Berber rug, obtained by unfastening the front panel of a piled pillow case. This was hand-crafted by the highly inventive weavers of the Ait Bou Ichaouen tr...
Category
Mid-20th Century Moroccan Tribal Moroccan and North African Rugs
Materials
Wool
Contemporary Moroccan Style Casablanca Rug by Alberto Levi Gallery, 10'5 x 13'4
Located in Milan, IT
Hand-knotted with fine, lustrous Ghazni wool, Casablanca spearheads the contemporary Moroccan collection of the Alberto Levi Gallery. Here, the infinite repeat pattern of parallel an...
Category
2010s Afghan Bohemian Moroccan and North African Rugs
Materials
Wool
Charming Old Miniature Moroccan Berber Rug with Abstract Geometric Pattern
Located in Milan, IT
A very charming miniature Berber rug, obtained by unfastening the front panel of a piled pillow case. This was hand-crafted by the highly inventive weavers of the Ait Bou Ichaouen tr...
Category
Mid-20th Century Moroccan Tribal Moroccan and North African Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Forest Green Early Victorian English Needlework Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A charming needlepoint rug characterised by a well articulated, swirling central bouquet set against a dark olive green background. English needlepoints of this caliber represent the...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century English Early Victorian Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
Charming Old Miniature Moroccan Berber Rug with Abstract Geometric Pattern
Located in Milan, IT
A very charming miniature Berber rug, obtained by unfastening the front panel of a piled pillow case. This was hand-crafted by the highly inventive weavers of the Ait Bou Ichaouen tr...
Category
Mid-20th Century Moroccan Tribal Moroccan and North African Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Pastel Coloured Central Asian Suzani Embroidery
Located in Milan, IT
The Suzani textiles from Uzbekistan represent the most refined and elegant manifestation of the Central Asian textile art tradition. Exquisite embroideries such as this one were wove...
Category
Vintage 1960s Uzbek Suzani Central Asian Rugs
Materials
Cotton
Antique Moroccan Berber Henna-Dyed Woman's Ceremonial Head Scarf
Located in Milan, IT
A very finely woven wool veil of an unusual format, with a design composed of three small circles set against an open field background, sparsely embellished with touches of embroider...
Category
Early 20th Century Moroccan Tribal Tapestries
Materials
Wool, Cotton
Antique Wilton Royal Carpet Factory Room Size Rug with Modernist Art Deco Design
Located in Milan, IT
Following the closure of the Axminster manufactory in Devonshire in 1835, the demand for carpets in England was supplied by the Wilton Royal Carpet Factory, located in Salisbury. In ...
Category
Vintage 1930s English Art Deco Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Moroccan Berber Prayer Rug with Striated Niche Design
Located in Milan, IT
The intention of the weaver of this charming example, originating from the Ourika valley located in the Moroccan central High Atlas region, was quite possibly that of creating a dir...
Category
Late 20th Century Moroccan Tribal Moroccan and North African Rugs
Materials
Wool, Cotton
Vintage Pastel Coloured Central Asian Suzani Embroidery
Located in Milan, IT
The Suzani textiles from Uzbekistan represent the most refined and elegant manifestation of the Central Asian textile art tradition. Exquisite embroideries such as this one were wove...
Category
Vintage 1960s Uzbek Suzani Central Asian Rugs
Materials
Cotton
Contemporary Mazandaran Style Kilim Rug with Multicoloured Horizontal Stripes
Located in Milan, IT
A stunning contemporary kilim, hand-woven with fine quality Afghan hand-spun wool dyed in a range of predominantly organic dyes. The palette is arranged in a vertical repeat of horiz...
Category
2010s Afghan Kilim Central Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Fine Antique Central Asian Flat-Weave Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A very rare and unusual flat-weave, extremely finely woven with silky wool, decorated by an asymmetrical array of horizontal stripes on a rich red background, save for the lower thir...
Category
Early 20th Century Uzbek Minimalist Central Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Pastel Coloured Central Asian Suzani Embroidery
Located in Milan, IT
The Suzani textiles from Uzbekistan represent the most refined and elegant manifestation of the Central Asian textile art tradition. Exquisite embroideries such as this one were wove...
Category
Vintage 1960s Uzbek Suzani Central Asian Rugs
Materials
Cotton
Magnificent Moroccan Aubergine Ground Berber Large Rug with White Diamonds
Located in Milan, IT
A truly one-of-a-kind room size Moroccan rug, hand-knotted by Berber women from the M'rirt region, located in the heart of the Middle Atlas mountains. Rugs of this type were commissi...
Category
2010s Moroccan Tribal Moroccan and North African Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Pastel Coloured Central Asian Suzani Embroidery
Located in Milan, IT
The Suzani textiles from Uzbekistan represent the most refined and elegant manifestation of the Central Asian textile art tradition. Exquisite embroideries such as this one were wove...
Category
Vintage 1960s Uzbek Suzani Central Asian Rugs
Materials
Cotton
Antique Oversize Napoleon III French Aubusson Carpet in Beige and Rose Red
Located in Milan, IT
The antique Aubusson carpets dating from the Napoleon III period are distinguished by patterns which are inspired by the ceiling decorations of seventeenth and eighteenth century Fre...
Category
Antique 1880s French Aubusson Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Black Ground Bessarabian Kilim with Botanical Pattern
Located in Milan, IT
The kilims known as 'Bessarabian' were woven in the Russian regions of Ukraine and Moldovia. Intended to satisfy the demands of the Russian aristocracy at a time when continental int...
Category
Vintage 1940s Russian and Scandinavian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Pastel Coloured Central Asian Suzani Embroidery
Located in Milan, IT
The Suzani textiles from Uzbekistan represent the most refined and elegant manifestation of the Central Asian textile art tradition. Exquisite embroideries such as this one were wove...
Category
Vintage 1960s Uzbek Suzani Central Asian Rugs
Materials
Cotton
Vintage Pastel Coloured Central Asian Suzani Embroidery
Located in Milan, IT
The Suzani textiles from Uzbekistan represent the most refined and elegant manifestation of the Central Asian textile art tradition. Exquisite embroideries such as this one were wove...
Category
Vintage 1960s Uzbek Suzani Central Asian Rugs
Materials
Cotton
Fine Garden Design Rug with All-Over Pattern in Wool and Silk
Located in Milan, IT
'Garden' represents our Traditional collection at its best, as it's based on an ancient Persian pattern woven when Tabriz was the capital of the Safavid Empire. Very finely knotted w...
Category
2010s Indian Tabriz Indian Rugs
Materials
Wool, Silk
Vintage Pastel Coloured Central Asian Suzani Embroidery
Located in Milan, IT
The Suzani textiles from Uzbekistan represent the most refined and elegant manifestation of the Central Asian textile art tradition. Exquisite embroideries such as this one were wove...
Category
Vintage 1960s Uzbek Suzani Central Asian Rugs
Materials
Cotton
Elegant Art Deco Chinese Rug by Nichols & Co.
By Nichols
Located in Milan, IT
During the Art Deco period many designers commissioned their patterns to the city looms located in Tianjin through companies such as Nichols & Company. Some designs, such as this one...
Category
Vintage 1920s Chinese Art Deco Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Black Ground Bessarabian Kilim with Botanical Pattern
Located in Milan, IT
The kilims known as 'Bessarabian' were woven in the Russian regions of Ukraine and Moldovia. Intended to satisfy the demands of the Russian aristocracy at a time when continental int...
Category
Vintage 1940s Russian and Scandinavian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Pastel Coloured Central Asian Suzani Embroidery
Located in Milan, IT
The Suzani textiles from Uzbekistan represent the most refined and elegant manifestation of the Central Asian textile art tradition. Exquisite embroideries such as this one were wove...
Category
Vintage 1960s Uzbek Suzani Central Asian Rugs
Materials
Cotton
Bidjar Paddington World Rug Map Night Version by Jan Kath
Located in Milan, IT
Jan Kath is one of the world’s most sought-after rug designers. He deliberately breaks with conventional styles and abandons strict design rules. He famously translates the iconography of classical rugs into a modern matrix, mixing the minimalist zeitgeist with traditional luxury, creating a signature style which has distinguished his brand.
"Make Rugs, Not War." Jan Kath’s famous phrase encapsulates the essence of the iconic Bidjar Paddington world maps.
Jan Kath's Erased Heritage...
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2010s Indian Baroque Revival Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool, Silk
Antique Silk Yarkand Throne Cover Rug with Opposing Dragons and Lotus Flowers
Located in Milan, IT
A very fine and rare antique throne back cover from Yarkand, in eastern Turkestan, hand knotted entirely in pure silk. A true gem of a weaving, with that perfect balance of colour an...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century East Turkestani Khotan Chinese and East Asian...
Materials
Silk
Vintage Black Ground Oversize Bessarabian Kilim with Botanical Pattern
Located in Milan, IT
The kilims known as 'Bessarabian' were woven in the Russian regions of Ukraine and Moldovia. Intended to satisfy the demands of the Russian aristocracy at a time when continental int...
Category
Vintage 1940s Ukrainian Bessarabian Russian and Scandinavian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Pastel Coloured Central Asian Suzani Embroidery
Located in Milan, IT
The Suzani textiles from Uzbekistan represent the most refined and elegant manifestation of the Central Asian textile art tradition. Exquisite embroideries such as this one were wove...
Category
Vintage 1960s Uzbek Suzani Central Asian Rugs
Materials
Cotton
Vintage Pastel Coloured Central Asian Suzani Embroidery
Located in Milan, IT
The Suzani textiles from Uzbekistan represent the most refined and elegant manifestation of the Central Asian textile art tradition. Exquisite embroideries such as this one were wove...
Category
Vintage 1960s Uzbek Suzani Central Asian Rugs
Materials
Cotton
Fine Oversize Vintage Cream Ground Kirman Rug with Paisley Pattern
Located in Milan, IT
Very finely knotted with lustrous wool, this exquisite cream ground Kirman workshop carpet is decorated by an infinite repeat pattern of stylised boteh palmettes, a botanical motif o...
Category
Vintage 1940s Azerbaijani Kirman Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Rare Room Size Black Ground Bessarabian Kilim with Botanical Pattern
Located in Milan, IT
The kilims known as 'Bessarabian' were woven in the Russian regions of Ukraine and Moldovia. Intended to satisfy the demands of the Russian aristocracy at a time when continental int...
Category
Vintage 1940s Ukrainian Bessarabian Russian and Scandinavian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Black Ground Bessarabian Kilim with Botanical Pattern
Located in Milan, IT
The kilims known as 'Bessarabian' were woven in the Russian regions of Ukraine and Moldovia. Intended to satisfy the demands of the Russian aristocracy at a time when continental int...
Category
Vintage 1940s Ukrainian Bessarabian Russian and Scandinavian Rugs
Materials
Wool
