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Period: 20th Century
Modernist Vintage Square Rug with Polychrome Thunderbolt Pattern
Located in Milan, IT
A very rare and unusual village rug characterized by a design composed of parallel multicolored zig-zag elements similar to thunderbolts. Patterns such as this were probably inspired...
Category
Vintage 1940s Turkish Art Deco Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Fine Antique Minimalist Small Sofreh Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A very fine flat-weave with a jewel-like quality that is almost impossible to convey by picture. Distinguished by the use of a very precious type of wool which feels almost like silk...
Category
Early 20th Century Turkish Minimalist Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Abstract Modernist Striped Tribal Kilim Rug
Located in Milan, IT
This stunning tribal kilim is characterised by two panels each containing an array of wonky red horizontal stripes juxtaposed against stripes in natural camel wool arranged in differ...
Category
Vintage 1920s Turkish Tribal Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Abstract Modernist Kilim Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A graphic tribal kilim characterized by a simplification of the pattern, reduced to three concentric, polychrome hexagons arranged across a striated apricot background. Distinguished...
Category
Mid-20th Century Turkish Kilim Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Minimalist Graphic Tribal Kilim Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A stunning tribal kilim distinguished by a neutral open field and embellished by a checkerboard polychrome border. A great example of how tribal art sometimes embraces modernism, ant...
Category
Vintage 1940s Turkish Kilim Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Arts & Crafts Wilton Oversize Rug with Green Architectural Border
Located in Milan, IT
A Minimalist Arts & Crafts carpet characterized by a completely open camel background, framed by a narrow green border decorated by elegantly rendered architectural motifs.
Category
Early 20th Century British Arts and Crafts Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Spanish Art Nouveau Orientalist Square Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A rare and unusual Art Nouveau carpet decorated by a central medallion inspired by Oriental rugs dominating over a brilliant red open field, with paisley motifs embellishing the corn...
Category
Vintage 1910s Spanish Art Nouveau Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Square Chinese Rug with Abstract Design
Located in Milan, IT
A rare and unusual rug, reminiscent of a contemporary painting, decorated by an apparently casual miscellany of polychrome wools. Examples of this type hav...
Category
Vintage 1920s Chinese Art Deco Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Minimalist Anatolian Copper Tulu Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A rare and relatively early example of central Anatolian Tulu rug, distinguished by a completely open field in a very unusual shade of copper. Tulus of this type are among the earlie...
Category
Vintage 1930s Turkish Tulu Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Art Deco Chinese Rug with Abstract Pattern
Located in Milan, IT
The painterly effect obtained by mixing varying proportions of ivory and colored wools is peculiar to this family of northern Chinese weavings. As most of these were sourced directly...
Category
Vintage 1930s Chinese Art Deco Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Fine Indigo Blue Chinese Geometric Design Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A very finely knotted antique Chinese rug in excellent condition, distinguished by a tone-on-tone Indigo blue palette and by a geometric pattern based on an infinite repeat, honeycom...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Qing Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Rare Antique Central Asian Minimalist Tribal Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A very rare and unusual Uzbek rug from Central Asia distinguished by a warm and rich red open field background, a natural color extracted from the madder pla...
Category
Early 20th Century Uzbek Minimalist Central Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Indigo Beni Mguild Moroccan Geometric Design Berber Rug
Located in Milan, IT
An authentic old Berber rug from the Middle Atlas Mountains, home of the Beni Mguild tribal confederacy, who are known to weave the best quality wool carpets of Morocco. Characterize...
Category
Mid-20th Century Moroccan Tribal Moroccan and North African Rugs
Materials
Wool
Midcentury Ivory/Black Scandinavian Modernist Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A very unusual Swedish pile rug with colour and design reminiscent of Beni Ouarain Berber rugs, indicating that Moroccan carpets were influencing Scandinavian Modern design quite ear...
Category
Vintage 1940s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Wilton Rug with Arts & Crafts Pattern in Pastel Colors, circa 1910
Located in Milan, IT
Following the closure of the Axminster manufactory in Devonshire in 1835, the demand for floral carpets made in the Rococo Revival style was supplied by the Wilton Royal Carpet...
Category
Vintage 1910s English Arts and Crafts Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
Room Size American Hooked Rug with Soft Colors
Located in Milan, IT
Following the fashion in the U.S.A. for French Aubusson and Savonnerie carpets at the turn of the previous century, workshops were commissioned to weave hooked rugs in this style. Th...
Category
Early 20th Century American American Craftsman North and South American ...
Materials
Wool
Vintage Moroccan Berber Boucherouite Kilim Rug
Located in Milan, IT
Woven with the exclusive use of recycled industrial yarns of various type, ranging from cotton to lurex, its weft directed pattern converges towards the centre, in a manner that remi...
Category
Late 20th Century Moroccan Tribal Moroccan and North African Rugs
Materials
Cotton
Dramatic Boucherouite Moroccan Berber Flat-Weave Rug
Located in Milan, IT
Woven with the exclusive use of recycled industrial yarns of various type, ranging from cotton to lurex, its weft directed pattern converges towards the centre, in a manner that remi...
Category
Late 20th Century Moroccan Tribal Moroccan and North African Rugs
Materials
Cotton
Boucherouite Moroccan Berber Flat-Weave Rug
Located in Milan, IT
Woven with the exclusive use of recycled industrial yarns of various type, ranging from cotton to lurex, its weft directed pattern converges towards the centre, in a manner that remi...
Category
Late 20th Century Moroccan Tribal Moroccan and North African Rugs
Materials
Cotton
Vintage Moroccan Berber Boucherouite Flat-Weave Rug
Located in Milan, IT
Woven with the exclusive use of recycled industrial yarns of various type, ranging from cotton to lurex, its weft directed pattern converges towards the centre, in a manner that remi...
Category
Late 20th Century Moroccan Tribal Moroccan and North African Rugs
Materials
Cotton
Unusual Moroccan Berber Boucherouite Rug
Located in Milan, IT
Woven with the exclusive use of recycled yarns of various type, ranging from cotton to lurex, this represents 'art brut' within the domain of the textile arts. Weavings such as this ...
Category
Late 20th Century Moroccan Folk Art Moroccan and North African Rugs
Materials
Cotton
Open Field Ivory Art Deco Chinese Rug, 1930s
Located in Milan, IT
From the large output of Chinese carpets from Tianjin during the 1930s, only a very few are decorated by geometric patterns typical of the Art Deco period. Some of these extremely ra...
Category
Vintage 1920s Chinese Art Deco Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Berber Moroccan Ourika Valley Eye Design Flat-Weave Rug
Located in Milan, IT
Woven with natural, undyed wool, flat-weaves such as the one illustrated here are characteristic of the Berber people located in the Ourika Valley, in the Moroccan High Atlas region....
Category
Vintage 1940s Moroccan Tribal Moroccan and North African Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Italian Design Rug attributed to Lyda Levi 1960s
Located in Milan, IT
This rug was commissioned in the early 1960s for the residence of Lyda Levi, a famous Milanese furniture designer. It is probable, although it is n...
Category
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Central Asian Fur Rug
Located in Milan, IT
This is a rare example of a 'postak', used by the Kirghiz people inhabiting the Pamir mountains, made up of strips of animal fur hand-stitched together to form a pattern. It represen...
Category
Early 20th Century Kyrgyzstani Tribal Central Asian Rugs
Materials
Fur
Vintage Mejjat Berber 'Desert Sand' Flat-Weave Haik Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A finely woven haik from the Mejjat tribe, located in the most southern part of the Moroccan Anti Atlas region. Distinguished for their blanket-like handle and for their unique icono...
Category
Vintage 1960s Moroccan Tribal Moroccan and North African Rugs
Materials
Wool
Mid-Century Modern Central Anatolian Kilim Rug with Stripes
Located in Milan, IT
An unusual flat-weave from the Karapinar region in central Anatolia decorated by vertical stripes in the tones of ivory, grey, camel, yellow and black.
Category
Vintage 1950s Turkish Tribal Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Minimalist Art Deco Chinese Rug 1930's
Located in Milan, IT
The painterly effect obtained by mixing varying proportions of ivory and indigo wool is peculiar to this family of northern Chinese weavings. As most of them were sourced directly in...
Category
Vintage 1930s Chinese Art Deco Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Chinese Rug with Abstract Design
Located in Milan, IT
The painterly effect obtained by mixing varying proportions of ivory and indigo wool is peculiar to this family of northern Chinese weavings. As most of them were sourced directly in...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinoiserie Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique French Geometric Art Deco Rug
Located in Milan, IT
An Art Deco rug distinguished by a repeat pattern of honey-arranged ivory lozenges knotted with a raised pile, contrasting with a similarly arranged cluster of apricot lozenges woven...
Category
Vintage 1940s French Art Deco Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Spanish Cuenca Rug with Shield Palmette Design
Located in Milan, IT
The court workshop called 'Real Fabrica de Tapices' has been active in Madrid since the 17th century, supplying handmade carpets woven with Tur...
Category
Vintage 1950s Spanish Oushak Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Spanish Cuenca Rug with Renaissance Wreath Pattern
Located in Milan, IT
The court workshop called 'Real Fabrica de Tapices' has been active in Madrid since the 17th century, supplying handmade carpets woven with Tur...
Category
Vintage 1930s Spanish Moorish Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Spanish Cuenca Rug with Renaissance Palmette Design
Located in Milan, IT
The court workshop called 'Real Fabrica de Tapices' has been active in Madrid since the 17th century, supplying handmade carpets woven with Turkish (symmetrical) knots to both the court as well as for export.
Throughout the 20th century their carpets were either woven with French Savonnerie patterns or, as in this case, with designs taken from the Spanish Renaissance weaving tradition. These carpets are known in the trade with the term of 'Cuenca,' which is the city in southern Spain where they were originally woven in the 15th-17th centuries. Here the pattern, which has a raised pile with respect to the ivory background, is distinguished by an infinite repeat of curvilinear palmettes as seen on 15th-16th century Spanish Alcaraz carpets.
Category
Vintage 1940s Spanish Oushak Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Spanish Cuenca Rug with Renaissance Wreath Pattern
Located in Milan, IT
The court workshop called 'Real Fabrica de Tapices' has been active in Madrid since the 17th century, supplying handmade carpets woven with Turkish (symmetrical) knots to both the court as well as for export.
Throughout the 20th century their carpets were either woven with French Savonnerie patterns or, as in this case, with designs taken from the Spanish Renaissance weaving tradition. These carpets are known in the trade with the term of 'Cuenca,' which is the city in southern Spain where they were originally woven in the 15th-17th centuries. Here the pattern is distinguished by an infinite repeat of floral wreaths as seen on Spanish Alcaraz carpets...
Category
Vintage 1940s Spanish Oushak Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Spanish Cuenca Rug with 16th Century Lotto Oushak Pattern
Located in Milan, IT
The court workshop called 'Real Fabrica de Tapices' has been active in Madrid since the 17th Century, supplying handmade carpets woven with Turkish (symmetrical) knots to both the co...
Category
Vintage 1930s Spanish Oushak Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Ivory Background Turkish Medallion Design Rug
Located in Milan, IT
Showing a Persianate pattern composed of a central medallion with quartered medallion elements in the corners, this old Turkish rug is distinguished by an ivory background and by a r...
Category
Vintage 1930s Turkish Oushak Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Graphic Eastern Moroccan Vintage Abstract Berber Rug
Located in Milan, IT
The Berber carpets from eastern Morocco, near the border with Algeria, are distinguished by wild patterns and audacious color combinations. This example displays all of these charact...
Category
Vintage 1940s Moroccan Tribal Moroccan and North African Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Rehamna Red and Blue Minimalist Berber Rug
Located in Milan, IT
The Berber carpets of the Rehamna plain around Marrakesh are often distinguished by their minimalist character. This stunning example is conceived around two colours (blue and red), ...
Category
Vintage 1940s Moroccan Tribal Moroccan and North African Rugs
Materials
Wool
Pair of French Art Deco Rugs 1930's
Located in Milan, IT
Characterized by a floppy handle and a relatively coarse weave, rugs such as these are referred by European scholars as 'travail domestique', meaning that they are home craft product...
Category
Vintage 1930s French Art Deco Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
Pair of French Art Deco Rugs 1930's
Located in Milan, IT
Characterized by a floppy handle and a relatively coarse weave, rugs such as these are referred by European scholars as 'travail domestique', meaning that they are home Craft product...
Category
Vintage 1930s French Art Deco Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
French Art Deco Narrow Rug
Located in Milan, IT
Characterized by a floppy handle and a relatively coarse weave, rugs such as these are referred by European scholars as 'travail domestique', meaning that they are home craft products inspired by popular patterns. This extremely narrow rug...
Category
Vintage 1930s French Art Deco Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Central Asian Felt Rug
Located in Milan, IT
Felts are among the first woolen structures made by mankind. Some of the earliest we know date from the 5th century B.C. and were found under ground in the frozen kurgans of Siberia....
Category
Vintage 1930s Kyrgyzstani Tribal Central Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Modernist Geometric Chinese Rug, 1930's
Located in Milan, IT
A rare and unusual carpet woven in two colors with an all-over pattern of square devices. Although it was originally sourced in China, carpets of this type were influenced by the Eur...
Category
Vintage 1930s Chinese Art Deco Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
French Art Deco Wool Rug Monogrammed AF 1930's
Located in Milan, IT
Woven in a range of shades of beige and brown, this Art Deco rug is distinguished by an abstract arrangement of intersecting planes with other geometric devices, a design that is cha...
Category
Vintage 1930s French Art Deco Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
Ruby Red Ersari Turkmen Rug with All-Over Geometric Pattern, 1930s
Located in Milan, IT
A classic Turkmen Main carpet distinguished by a unique tonality of ruby red for the background. The allover pattern composed of three parallel rows of octagonal devices is a charact...
Category
Vintage 1930s Turkmen Tribal Central Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Very Fine Antique Algerian Silk and Wool Shawl with Stripes
Located in Milan, IT
A strikingly visual shawl composed of alternating rows of horizontal stripes in undyed dark wool and insect dyed fuchsia red silk. The differing widths of each stripe imparts this te...
Category
Vintage 1930s Algerian Tribal Moroccan and North African Rugs
Materials
Wool, Silk
Rare Large Moroccan Berber Boucherouite Rug
Located in Milan, IT
Woven with the exclusive use of recycled yarns of various type, ranging from cotton to lurex, this represents 'art brut' within the domain of the textile arts. Weavings such as this ...
Category
Late 20th Century Moroccan Folk Art Moroccan and North African Rugs
Materials
Cotton
Abstract Moroccan Berber Boucherouite Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A very unusual Berber rug from the Boujad region, located on the foothills of the central High Atlas mountains of Morocco, with a background in polychrome stripes onto which are asym...
Category
Late 20th Century Moroccan Folk Art Moroccan and North African Rugs
Materials
Cotton
Antique Geometric Chinese Rug with Polychrome Lozenges
Located in Milan, IT
A fine Peking type carpet woven by an honeycomb arrangement of polychrome lozenges with an almost random color distribution.
Carpets of this type are representative of an early 20th...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Art Deco Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Fine Antique Peking Chinese Blue Open Field Rug
Located in Milan, IT
The fine carpets of Peking represent the other end of the spectrum of Chinese textile art, expressing a late Qing dynasty aesthetic that is based o...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Minimalist Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Tibetan Nambu Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A rare and unusual Tibetan rug woven with the wool yarn obtained by unravelling the so-called 'Nambu' skirts, which are typically decorated by multicolored stripes. The unravelled ya...
Category
Vintage 1920s Tibetan Tibetan Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Art Deco Oversize Indian Cotton Dhurrie
Located in Milan, IT
The weaving of flat-woven cotton carpets known as dhurries is cited in Mughal chronicles of the 15th century. Probably one of the earliest forms of floor covering, dhurries were wove...
Category
Vintage 1930s Indian Art Deco Indian Rugs
Materials
Cotton
French Mid-Century Modern Red Wool Rug in the style of André Arbus
Located in Milan, IT
Carpets woven with open fields surrounded by a leafy frame are typical of the so-called French 'neoclassical' artists, of which André Arbus is a leading representative. These artists...
Category
Vintage 1940s French Mid-Century Modern Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Geometric Kirghiz Wool Felt Square Rug, 1940's
Located in Milan, IT
Felts are among the first woollen structures made by mankind. Some of the earliest we know were found in the kurgans of Central Asia. This tradition continued until recently, althoug...
Category
Vintage 1940s Kyrgyzstani Tribal Central Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Baroque Revival Turkish Rug by Zeki Muren, 1950's
Located in Milan, IT
Zeki Muren (1931-1996) was a famous Turkish artist, active in fields ranging from classical and contemporary music to poetry and acting. From 1950-1953 he studied Decorative Arts at ...
Category
Vintage 1950s Turkish Baroque Revival Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
French Art Deco Geometric Wool Rug Circa 1930
Located in Milan, IT
Woven in different tones of brown over a camel background, this Art Deco rug embodies the aesthetic of the period, juxtaposing an all-over pattern of triangles, probably taken from c...
Category
Vintage 1930s French Art Deco Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
Arts & Crafts Donegal Light Blue Wool Rug Attributed to Gavin Morton, circa 1910
By Gavin Morton
Located in Milan, IT
The Donegal carpet factory was responsible for the weaving of the most significant hand-knotted carpets of the Arts & Crafts period. Guided initially by British architect-designers s...
Category
Early 20th Century Irish Arts and Crafts Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
Mid-Century Modern Bessarabian Kilim Rug
Located in Milan, IT
Woven in brown and grey tones, this unusual kilim is decorated by a geometric pattern influenced by the European avant-garde, rather than with the more typical floral design. It is s...
Category
Vintage 1940s Ukrainian Mid-Century Modern Russian and Scandinavian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Embroidered Central Asian Felt Rug
Located in Milan, IT
Felts are among the first woollen structures made by mankind. Some of the earliest we know date from the 5th century B.C. and were found under ground in the frozen kurgans of Siberia...
Category
Vintage 1930s Kyrgyzstani Tribal Central Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Black Tribal Felt Rug
Located in Milan, IT
Felts are among the first woolen structures made by mankind, some of the earliest we know were found in the 'kurgans' of Central Asia, decorated by a variety of zoomorphic motifs typ...
Category
20th Century Turkish Tribal Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
