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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 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
Vintage Mid-Century Modern Wool Kilim Rug with Tiger Pelt Pattern
Located in Milan, IT
An unusual wool flat-weave distinguished by an all-over pattern similar to a stylized tiger pelt in purple on an ivory background. This kilim was collected ...
Category
Vintage 1950s Turkish Mid-Century Modern Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Mid-Century Anatolian Gallery Size Kars Kilim Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A gallery-sized example of flat-woven wool kilim originating from Kars, located in eastern Anatolia close to the border with the Caucasus. The kilims from this region are renown for ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Turkish Kilim Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Minimalist Anatolian Kilim Rug with Graphite Black Flame Pattern
Located in Milan, IT
A stunning contemporary kilim from central Anatolia, woven in three panels using the best quality hand-spun wool and natural dyes. The design is inspired by the antique flat-weaves o...
Category
2010s Turkish Minimalist Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Unusual Antique Heriz Rug with Sampler Design in Rare Size
Located in Milan, IT
A very unusual Heriz rug, with a medallion design that is articulated in a way which indicates that it could quite possibly have been intended as a sampler (vaghireh). By weaving rug...
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Vintage 1920s Azerbaijani Heriz Serapi Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Filikli Turkish Rug with Polychrome Concentric Squares
Located in Milan, IT
Filikli rugs represent probably the earliest, most primitive form of weaving known to mankind, veritably untouched over the course of a few thousand years. These were originally inte...
Category
Early 20th Century Turkish Tulu Turkish Rugs
Materials
Angora
Antique Filikli Turkish Rug with Polychrome Concentric Lozenges
Located in Milan, IT
Filikli rugs represent probably the earliest, most primitive form of weaving known to mankind, veritably untouched over the course of a few thousand years. These were originally inte...
Category
Early 20th Century Turkish Tulu Turkish Rugs
Materials
Angora
Mid Century Modern Room Size Square Anatolian Kilim with Polychrome Stripes
Located in Milan, IT
A stunning vintage Turkish wool flat-weave, composed of four panels, each composed of a succession of parallel horizontal stripes arranged in pairs. These stripes are sometimes in th...
Category
Mid-20th Century Turkish Mid-Century Modern Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Turkish Miniature Lion Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A truly unique miniature antique Turkish rug, decorated by a realistic-looking lion. Possibly commissioned for a specific occasion, it's the perfect gift for an animal-loving person,...
Category
Early 20th Century Turkish Other Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Filikli Turkish Rug with Polychrome Stacked Niches
Located in Milan, IT
Filikli rugs represent probably the earliest, most primitive form of weaving known to mankind, veritably untouched over the course of a few thousand years. These were originally inte...
Category
Early 20th Century Turkish Tulu Turkish Rugs
Materials
Angora
Antique Anatolian Kilim with Geometric Compartments
Located in Milan, IT
A finely woven Anatolian kilim, originating from the eastern region of Turkey between the areas of Sivas and Malatya. It's distinguished by a geometric pattern composed of three squa...
Category
Antique 1870s Turkish Kilim Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Filikli Turkish Rug with Polychrome Concentric Rectangles
Located in Milan, IT
Filikli rugs represent probably the earliest, most primitive form of weaving known to mankind, veritably untouched over the course of a few thousand years. These were originally inte...
Category
Early 20th Century Turkish Tulu Turkish Rugs
Materials
Angora
Sweet Vintage Emerald Green Small Tribal Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A very unusual tribal rug, distinguished by an emerald green background in various gradations, embellished by sparse geometric motifs as well as by an anthropomorphic figure. The yellow ground border contains a parallel set of cartouche-like elements which are characteristic of Kurdish tribal iconography. Indeed Kurdish people inhabit a considerable portion of eastern Anatolia since time immemorial, and are among the main tribes responsible for carrying on the ancient weaving traditions.
A sweet little rug...
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Vintage 1970s Tulu Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Soft Teal Ziegler Sultanabad Rug with All-Over Pattern
By Ziegler & Co.
Located in Milan, IT
The carpets woven by the Anglo-Swiss firm of Ziegler & Co. during the late nineteenth century in the region of Arak are often characterised by classic Persian patterns rendered in hi...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Azerbaijani Sultanabad Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Modernist Mocha Bakhtiari All-Over Design Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A restrained palette of mochas and ivories is what differentiates this piece from most Bakhtiari rugs of similar vintage. This unusual colouration instantly confers to the traditiona...
Category
Vintage 1950s Azerbaijani Bakshaish Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Square Rug with Leopard Pelt Design
Located in Milan, IT
A finely woven wool rug distinguished by a pointillist pattern of red dots of different dimensions punctuating a natural beige background. The resulting pattern mimics the design we ...
Category
Late 20th Century Turkish Organic Modern Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Tulu Prayer Rug with Light Blue Niche
Located in Milan, IT
Tulu rugs represent one of the earliest forms of nomadic pile weaving, typically knotted with a medium-high pile as they were meant as bedding rugs for the tent. Woven in the Karapin...
Category
Vintage 1940s Turkish Tulu Turkish Rugs
Materials
Angora
Vintage Tulu Prayer Rug with Moss Green Niche
Located in Milan, IT
Tulu rugs represent one of the earliest forms of nomadic pile weaving, typically knotted with a medium-high pile as they were meant as bedding rugs for the tent. Woven in the Karapin...
Category
Vintage 1940s Turkish Tulu Turkish Rugs
Materials
Angora
Antique Camel Ground Angora Tulu Rug with Archaic Medallion
Located in Milan, IT
A rare and early Tulu woven using the finest Angora wool, resulting in a finely woven rug with a silky texture and a blanket-like handle. The soft camel field is embellished by a zoomorphic central device similar to some motifs founds in Neolithic cave paintings.
Examples of this type represent the pinnacle of the primitive pile weaving tradition, and were woven by the Yuruk nomads inhabiting the Toros...
Category
Early 20th Century Turkish Tulu Turkish Rugs
Materials
Angora
Vintage Tulu Rug with Abstract Design
Located in Milan, IT
Tulu rugs represent one of the earliest forms of nomadic pile weaving, typically knotted with a medium-high pile as they were meant as bedding rugs for the tent. Woven in the Karapin...
Category
Vintage 1940s Turkish Tulu Turkish Rugs
Materials
Angora
Oversize Antique Minimalist Open Field Monochrome Beige Kilim Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A very rare large size antique flat-weave with a completely open field composed of subtle gradations of natural wool. Woven by the Kurdish tribes in Azerbaijan, it has the characteri...
Category
Early 20th Century Azerbaijani Minimalist Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Tulu Rug in Fuchsia Pink and Emerald Green
Located in Milan, IT
Tulu rugs represent one of the earliest forms of nomadic pile weaving, typically knotted with a medium-high pile as they were meant as bedding rugs for the tent. Woven in the Karapin...
Category
Vintage 1930s Turkish Tulu Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Minimalist Graphic Anatolian Kilim Rug with Teal Blue Flame Pattern
Located in Milan, IT
A stunning contemporary kilim from central Anatolia, woven in three panels using the best quality hand-spun wool and natural dyes. The design is inspired by the antique flat-weaves o...
Category
2010s Turkish Minimalist Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Minimalist Graphic Anatolian Kilim Rug with Red and Green Flame Pattern
Located in Milan, IT
A stunning contemporary kilim from central Anatolia, woven in three panels using the best quality hand-spun wool and natural dyes. The design is inspired by the antique flat-weaves o...
Category
2010s Turkish Minimalist Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Light Blue Oushak Rug with All-Over Pattern of Leafs and Palmettes
Located in Milan, IT
A highly refined Oushak rug distinguished by a stunning aqua blue background, embellished by an all-over pattern composed of large palmettes in light grey flanked by a network of ela...
Category
Vintage 1980s Turkish Oushak Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Minimalist White and Black Anatolian Kilim with Angora Wool
Located in Milan, IT
Woven by Kurdish people located in the eastern Anatolian village of Siirt, weft-faced plain weaves of this type employ silky, Angora goat hair using a technique which dates back to about 6000 BC, when the first textiles began to appear in the Fertile Crescent of Mesopotamia. This fine, old example is constructed over three panels, each embellished by a sequence of narrow horizontal...
Category
Vintage 1940s Turkish Kilim Turkish Rugs
Materials
Angora
Vintage Light Blue Oushak Rug with Large Leafs and Palmettes
Located in Milan, IT
A highly refined Oushak rug distinguished by a stunning aqua blue background, embellished by an oversized pattern composed of a large central palmettes flanked by a network of elabor...
Category
Vintage 1980s Turkish Oushak Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Light Blue Oushak Rug with Large Leafs and Palmettes
Located in Milan, IT
A highly refined Oushak rug distinguished by a stunning aqua blue background, embellished by an oversized pattern composed of a large central palmette flanked by a network of elabora...
Category
Vintage 1980s Turkish Oushak Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Minimalist Graphic Tulu Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A highly graphic vintage tribal rug, distinguished by red field embellished by a blue central device with a zig-zag profile. Rugs of this type are repr...
Category
Mid-20th Century Turkish Tulu Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique White Ground Oushak Rug with Large Scale All-Over Design
Located in Milan, IT
A refined and elegant oversize Oushak carpet, distinguished by a large scale, all-over pattern consisting of parallel and offset rows of four-p...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Turkish Oushak Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Outstanding Contemporary Taupe/Champagne Coloured Geometric Kilim Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A stunning wool kilim handwoven in a small village workshop by the same people who have been weaving them for centuries, on nearly identical narrow vertical looms. The technique is a...
Category
2010s Turkish Kilim Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Outstanding Contemporary Teal Blue Oversized Geometric Kilim Rug 11 x 15 feet
Located in Milan, IT
A stunning wool kilim, hand-woven with the same technique of antique tribal flat-weaves, distinguished by a careful miscellany of hand-spun wool threads in teal blue, ivory and bronz...
Category
2010s Turkish Mid-Century Modern Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Geometric Design Tribal Rug in Camel Hair and Mocha Neutral Colours
Located in Milan, IT
A truly elegant Kurdish Anatolian tribal rug from eastern Turkey distinguished by the use of natural, undyed camel hair for the background. It's sparsely decorated by a sequence of five conjoined diamond medallions with stepped outlines in tones of chocolate brown and ivory. The combination of a restrained palette and a minimalist design results in a very refined weaving of clear Modernist flavour, which can be easily placed in a contemporary design room setting. A real masterpiece of antique tribal...
Category
Early 20th Century Turkish Tulu Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Distressed Soft Coloured Botanical Design Decorative Carpet
Located in Milan, IT
A highly refined room size carpet distinguished by a very soft palette and by an 'Old World' distressed condition, which imparts a certain understated elegance and a feeling as if th...
Category
Early 20th Century Turkish Oushak Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Fine Antique Crimson Silk Kayseri Rug with Vaq-Vaq Pattern
Located in Milan, IT
A highly unusual Kayseri silk rug, distinguished by the so-called vaq-vaq pattern on a crimson red background, exquisitely rendered in the original Mu...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Turkish Agra Turkish Rugs
Materials
Silk
Vintage Kurdish Polychrome Wool Flat-Weave Rug
Located in Milan, IT
Perdehs were used as tent dividers by the Kurdish tribes of Eastern Anatolia. Each flat-woven wool panel is individually dip-dyed and subsequently hand-stitched to the other panels. ...
Category
Vintage 1930s Turkish Minimalist Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Abstract Modernist Kilim Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A graphic Kurdish flat-weave characterized by a central cluster of horizontal stripes similar to paint brushstrokes across a rich red open field background. The abstract modernity of...
Category
Vintage 1930s Turkish Kilim Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Tribal Kilim Rug with Polychrome Vertical Stripes
Located in Milan, IT
A very graphic tribal Kilim composed of two joined panels each containing an array of polychrome vertical stripes of various widths. The result is a wool flat-weave with a mirror image pattern having a central stripe that is considerably wider than the others. The resulting visual effect is highly abstract and reminiscent more of Western contemporary art...
Category
Vintage 1920s Turkish Minimalist Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Abstract Design Kurdish Tulu Tribal Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A quite unusual old Kurdish Tulu from eastern Anatolia characterised by an abstract pattern derived from a miscellany of various colors, resulting in a very modernist composition. A ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Turkish Tulu Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Mocha Brown Square Kurdish Tulu with Terracotta Diamonds, Circa 1910
Located in Milan, IT
Tulu rugs represent one of the earliest forms of nomadic pile weaving, typically knotted with a medium-high pile as these were intended as bedding rugs for the tent. The patterns are...
Category
Early 20th Century Turkish Tulu Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Fine Antique Allover Design Celadon Green Oushak Rug with Blush Pink Border
Located in Milan, IT
Antique Oushak carpets are heirs of a very long standing tradition. As rugs of this type were woven in western Anatolia since the Golden Age of the Ottoman empire in the 16th century...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Turkish Oushak Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Mid-Century Modern Vintage Kurdish Tulu with Dotted Polychrome Background
Located in Milan, IT
Tulu rugs represent one of the earliest forms of nomadic pile weaving, typically knotted with a medium-high pile as they were meant as bedding rugs for the tent. The patterns are quite simple, ranging from completely open fields to stacked niches, with basic geometric patterns such as the one here representing some interesting variants. Here the field is embellished by an infinite repeat dotted pattern, which gains momentum by virtue of the irregular colour variations of the background, creating a syncopated and colourful stripe...
Category
Mid-20th Century Turkish Tulu Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Mid-Century Modern Vintage Kurdish Tulu with Polychrome Checkerboard Design
Located in Milan, IT
Tulu rugs represent one of the earliest forms of nomadic pile weaving, typically knotted with a medium-high pile as they were meant as bedding rugs for the tent. The patterns are typ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Turkish Tulu Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Red and Green Checkerboard Turkish Tulu Rug
Located in Milan, IT
Tulu rugs represent one of the earliest forms of nomadic pile weaving, typically knotted with a medium-high pile as they were meant as bedding rugs for the tent. Woven in the Karapin...
Category
Vintage 1930s Turkish Tulu Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Exquisite Ottoman Style Silk Embroidered Textile Hanging or Spread
Located in Milan, IT
A highly refined embroidery embellished by an infinite repeat of stylised leafs and palmettes typical of 16th Century Ottoman Court workshops. It belongs to a group of weavings commissioned by a British interior designer and no longer in production. It is therefore a one off, displaying the art of Ottoman silk embroidery...
Category
Early 2000s Turkish Oushak Turkish Rugs
Materials
Cotton, Silk
Vintage Tribal Geometric Design Rug
Located in Milan, IT
The naive character of this charming, diminutive tribal rug is exactly what distinguishes it from the plethora of commercial oriental rugs. The diamond design field is completely fil...
Category
Mid-20th Century Turkish Tulu Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Large Early Ivory Minimal Tulu Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A rare and relatively early example of monochrome Tulu rug, distinguished by a completely open field embellished by almost calligraphic touches of natural brown wool. Tulus of this t...
Category
Vintage 1920s Turkish Tulu Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Room Size Minimalist Tribal Quilted Double Face Kilim
Located in Milan, IT
A very rare and magnificent wool tribal flat-weave composed of two panels quilted together to create a double-face Kilim. The dark side is characterized by a monochrome, aubergine ba...
Category
Vintage 1920s Turkish Minimalist Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Anatolian Kurdish Rug with Rainbow Pattern
Located in Milan, IT
A Kurdish tribal rug distinguished by a rainbow pattern of polychrome diagonals, framed by a simple border composed of small octagons. The soft lush pile is typical of the best quali...
Category
Vintage 1980s Turkish Tulu Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique White Ground Anatolian Tulu Prayer Rug
Located in Milan, IT
The overall composition of this niche design rug relates it to a group of white ground central Anatolian prayer rugs, mostly woven with more traditional motifs. The primitive nature of the drawing imparts here a cave-like appearance to the niche. The use of silky Angora mohair wool (filik in Turkish) is characteristic of the most precious Tulus.
Warp: wool, ivory Weft: wool, ivory, 3-6 shots between knotted rows
Knot: symmetrical, weaving direction adjacent to niche, no warp depression
Knot count: 4H x 3V = 12 knots/square inch
Selvages: three sets of paired warps Ends: weft-faced plain weave; top with corded fringes
Colours: ivory, maroon (corrosive), light green, red, grey blue, camel, orange (7)
This rug is featured in our current web exhibition entitled 'Like a Prayer...
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Early 20th Century Turkish Tulu Turkish Rugs
Materials
Angora
Antique Red Ilme Tulu Niche Design Anatolian Rug
Located in Milan, IT
The large hooked triangle that dominates the composition of this other Tulu acts as a directional motif delineating the prayer niche, which follows the direction of weaving. It could...
Category
Antique Early 1900s Turkish Tulu Turkish Rugs
Materials
Angora
Antique Ivory Çeki Tulu Niche Design Anatolian Rug
Located in Milan, IT
This archaic looking niche design rug is distinguished by the extra weft loop pile technique, which is one of the earliest forms of weaving that preceded the creation of the pile rug...
Category
Antique Early 1900s Turkish Tulu Turkish Rugs
Materials
Angora
Vintage Geometric Turkish Tulu Rug in Mocha Colours, 1930's
Located in Milan, IT
Tulu rugs represent one of the earliest forms of nomadic pile weaving, typically knotted with a medium-high pile as they were meant as bedding rugs for the tent. Woven in the Karapin...
Category
Vintage 1930s Turkish Tulu Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Ivory/Black Geometric Design Tribal Rug
Located in Milan, IT
Distinguished by an abstract rendition of the honeycomb diamond pattern, this charming tribal rug has a very sturdy construction and is ideal for any high traffic area. The ivory/bla...
Category
Mid-20th Century Turkish Tribal Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Large Early Ivory Minimal Tulu Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A rare and relatively early example of monochrome Tulu rug, distinguished by a completely open field embellished by almost calligraphic touches of natural brown wool. Tulus of this t...
Category
Vintage 1920s Turkish Tulu Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Shepherd's Tulu Hand Knotted Wool Rug Coat
Located in Milan, IT
An original Anatolian Tulu pile rug hand knotted with natural, undyed wool and tailored into a coat. This was used by the shepherds inhabiting the area of Karapinar, in central Anato...
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Vintage 1930s Turkish Tribal Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Tulu with Chequerboard Pattern
Located in Milan, IT
The Tulu rugs represent one of the earliest forms of nomadic pile weaving, typically knotted with a medium-high pile as they were meant as bedding rugs for the tent. Woven in the Kar...
Category
Vintage 1940s Turkish Tulu Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Minimalist Anatolian Tulu Rug
Located in Milan, IT
Distinguished by a squarish format typical of yatak (bedding) rugs, this Tulu has a soft creamy yellow background randomly punctuated by small dots and by a larger one indicating the...
Category
Vintage 1940s Turkish Tulu Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Geometric Tulu Rug
Located in Milan, IT
The Tulu rugs represent one of the earliest forms of nomadic pile weaving, typically knotted with a medium-high pile as they were meant as bedding rugs for the tent. Woven in the Kar...
Category
Vintage 1930s Turkish Tulu Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
