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Antique Square Chinese Art Nouveau Rug with Pastel Colours
Located in Milan, IT
A rare and unusual Chinese carpet from the Art Nouveau period characterised by an all-over pattern of tone on tone lotus flowers scrolling on a soft cream background within a circula...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Art Nouveau Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Fine Antique Silk Kayseri Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A very finely woven Kayseri rug from eastern Anatolia, hand knotted entirely in pure silk, distinguished by an all over pattern of stylized leafs and palmettes on an ivory background...
Category
Early 20th Century Turkish Oushak Turkish Rugs
Materials
Silk
Antique Minimalist Graphic Tribal Kilim Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A dazzling flat-weave distinguished by a rich red open field background flanked by polychrome vertical stripes. Kilims of this kind, although belonging to the material culture of nea...
Category
Vintage 1920s Turkish Minimalist Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Abstract Modernist Tribal Sofreh Kilim Rug
Located in Milan, IT
Sofreh flat-weaves are among the most prized possessions among the material culture of near eastern tribal people. These are employed as presentation textiles for food offerings when...
Category
Vintage 1940s Turkish Minimalist Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Abstract Modernist Kilim Rug
Located in Milan, IT
Woven by the Kurdish people inhabiting the region between eastern Anatolia and the southern Caucasus, this sturdily woven small sized kilim was possibly a sofreh, which means that it...
Category
Vintage 1930s Turkish Kilim Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Modernist 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
Vintage 1940s Turkish Tribal Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Denim Blue Chinese Rug with Tone on Tone Scrolling Leaf Pattern
Located in Milan, IT
A highly refined antique Chinese carpet, distinguished by a subtle tone on tone pattern of scrolling leafs in sky blue on a denim blue background, reminiscent of the most sophisticat...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
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 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
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
Contemporary Silk Rug with Ancient Byzantine Mosaic Pattern
By Alberto Levi
Located in Milan, IT
An extremely finely knotted carpet woven completely in pure silk, with a design taken from the floor mosaics of the Byzantine period. The aging effect is obtained by weaving the patt...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Indian Classical Roman Indian Rugs
Materials
Silk
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, suggesting that Moroccan carpets were influencing Scandinavian Modern design quite ear...
Category
Vintage 1940s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
'Arras' Contemporary Tapestry by Angela Florio
Located in Milan, IT
Angela Florio, born in Venice but active in Milan, is the mastermind behind ‘Arràs’. Her visual masterpieces are the product of a secret miscellany of fabric and light, in a contemp...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Other Tapestries
Antique French Savonnerie Rug with Ivory Background
Located in Milan, IT
Distinguished by an ivory background punctuated by floral elements in pastel shades, this antique French Savonnerie carpet is characteristic of the late Baroque style which was preva...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Aubusson 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
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 by Lyda Levi, Milan 1960s
Located in Milan, IT
Lyda Levi (1922-2011) was a leading figure of the post World War II Milanese design movement. In 1946 she collaborated in organising the prestigious 8th edition of Milan’s Triennale ...
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
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
Fine Antique Blue Green Indian Agra with All-over Scrolling Palmettes
Located in Milan, IT
Agra carpets have historically been regarded among the most refined decorative carpets. They were commissioned by British nobility during the colonial period to adorn their castles a...
Category
Antique 1880s Indian Agra Indian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Light Green Open Field Indian Amritsar Rug
Located in Milan, IT
Characterized by a very unusual light green background, this fine Amritsar carpet is distinguished by a small medallion with pendants layered onto a large cartouche acting and an ope...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Indian Agra Indian 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
Fine Antique English Needlework Rug
Located in Milan, IT
An extremely fine English needlepoint rug, representative of the highest quality woven during the Victorian era, decorated by an allover pattern of ivory cartouches containing refine...
Category
Antique 1870s English Victorian 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
$4,623 / set
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
$5,098 / set
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
Early 17th Century Flemish Tapestry Panel Depicting Mercury
Located in Milan, IT
A very fine tapestry panel, originally part of the top section of a border, depicting at its center the head of Mercury, the Roman God of Commerce. The winged head is flanked by a pa...
Category
Antique Early 17th Century Belgian Baroque Tapestries
Materials
Wool, Silk
Fine Antique English Needlepoint Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A refined English needlework distinguished by the horizontal arrangement of a centralised motif, this being composed of a delicately rendered floral bouquet in a basket on an ivory o...
Category
Antique 1890s British Victorian Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Victorian English Needlework Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A fine English needlework worked in both petit and gros point distinguished by a floral spray on a black background, contained within a reserve defined by ribbon-like, stylised acant...
Category
Antique 1890s English Victorian Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Victorian English Needlepoint Rug, circa 1860
Located in Milan, IT
A charming needlepoint rug distinguished by an infinite repeat pattern of floral bouquets alternated by offset parallel rows of leafy roundels. English needlepoints such as this one ...
Category
Antique 19th Century English Victorian 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
Antique Ukrainian Wool and Cotton Pile Rug, 1880's
Located in Milan, IT
Ukrainian and Bessarabian carpets are typically flat-woven, as this was a tradition imported from France by Peter the Great, who is said to have opened various tapestry workshops aro...
Category
Antique 19th Century Ukrainian Bessarabian Russian and Scandinavian Rugs
Materials
Wool, Cotton
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
Rare Antique Ukrainian Pile Rug With Floral Garlands in the St. Petersburg Style
Located in Milan, IT
A very rare Ukrainian pile rug woven with a pattern characteristic of Aubusson and Savonnerie French carpets. Carpets such as this one were woven at a time when the classical French style was extremely in favour among the Russian aristocracy, who decorated their homes with period French furniture...
Category
Antique 1870s Ukrainian Bessarabian Russian and Scandinavian Rugs
Materials
Wool
