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52446 Vintage Turkish Oushak Rug with Colorful Arts & Crafts Style 03'05 x 05'11. This hand knotted wool vintage Turkish Oushak rug features two connected stepped hexagonal medallion...

50072, vintage Turkish Oushak rug with Art Deco cubist style and muted colors. This hand knotted wool vintage Turkish Oushak rug features an all-over geometric lattice pattern spread...

52852 vintage Turkish Oushak runner with Mid-Century Modern style. Warm and inviting, this hand knotted wool vintage Turkish Oushak runner beautifully embodies Mid-Century Modern sty...

A modern Turkish Anatolian small runner handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 2' 6" x 8' 6".

This handwoven vintage Turkish carpet features a hand painted floral red pattern on a white background on this Oriental rug. These floral patterned rugs can be used as the centre of ...

A vintage Turkish Art Deco style room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 7' 6" x 12' 10".

A vintage Turkish flatweave Kilim room size carpet handmade during the Mid-20th Century. Measures: 8' 1" x 12' 5".

52403 Vintage Turkish Oushak Hallway Runner 03'09 x 11'01. This hand-knotted wool vintage Turkish Oushak runner features three stepped lozenge medallion...

70944, distressed antique Turkish Sparta Palace rug with French Provincial and Georgian style. Bespeaking French cultural influence with an impressive array of realistic floral eleme...

52528, contemporary Turkish Oushak rug with pastel colors and French Transitional style. Highly stylish yet tastefully casual, this new colorful Turkish Oushak rug features an all-ov...

50470 Pair of Vintage Turkish Oushak Runners with Art Deco Style. Displaying balanced symmetry and bold geometric shapes, this pair of hand-knotted wool vintage Turkish Oushak runner...

The Rapture Collection is the exception to our hand-woven only rule. Woven Concepts purist philosophy focuses on the creation of hand-made, high-end rugs. The Rapture Collection rugs...

This bold oriental Kilim is a great example of antique kilims. The central design has been woven in blue, red and yellow accents that make up the decorative symmetrical floral motif ...

50173, vintage Turkish Oushak accent rug, entry or foyer rug 03'04 x 06'08. This hand knotted wool distressed vintage Turkish Oushak Yastik scatter rug features a central stepped med...

73667 Distressed Vintage Turkish Oushak Rug with Rustic Jacobean Style 05'00 x 08'01. This hand knotted wool distressed vintage Turkish Oushak rug showcases an ornate 16-point round ...

52533 New Colorful Modern Turkish Oushak Rug, 10'03 x 13'09. A mesmerizing tableau of color and tradition, this hand-knotted wool colorful modern Turkish Oushak rug weaves together c...

A vintage Turkish Anatolian tribal gallery carpet handmade during the Mid-20th Century. Measures: 6' 4" x 11' 7".

52786, new colorful contemporary Turkish Oushak rug with modern style. The bold geometric print and pops of color woven into this hand knotted wool Contemporary Turkish Oushak rug wo...

52809 Muted Vintage Turkish Oushak Rug, 06'02 x 09'01. Subtle sophistication meets nostalgic charm in this hand knotted wool vintage Turkish Oushak rug. The faded botanical design an...

52808 Muted Vintage Turkish Oushak Rug, 06'02 x 09'07. Take a timeless, tailored design, mix in a dash of history and antique-washed colors to get this fresh look that’s as comfortab...

52778, distressed vintage Turkish Oushak rug with Rustic Modern Lodge style. Rusticity meets timeless Anatolian tradition in this hand knotted wool distressed vintage Turkish Oushak ...

52727, distressed vintage Turkish Oushak rug rustic lodge and Tribal style. This hand knotted wool distressed vintage Turkish Oushak rug features a hexago...

52601 Zeki Muren distressed vintage Turkish Sivas runner with cubism Art Deco style. Warm and inviting combined with a bold pattern, this hand knotted wool distressed vintage Turkish...

52743, vintage Turkish Oushak runner with Tudor style. With its Classic style and warm, rich colors, this hand knotted wool vintage Turkish Oushak runner is well-balanced and poised ...

52721, distressed vintage Turkish Oushak runner with romantic rustic style 03'04 x 10'03. A beautiful combination of warm tone...

A vintage Turkish hemp flatweave Kilim small room size carpet in white handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 7' 8" x 10' 7".

A vintage Turkish Anatolian modern style runner handmade during the mid-20th century.

52477, Vintage Turkish Oushak Rug. Showcasing timeless elegance in a muted color palette this hand knotted wool Vintage Turkish Oushak rug features a demure center medallion with ela...

52350 Vintage Anatolian Kirsehir Village Prayer Rug with Graveyard Marker Design, Modern Style Wide Hallway Runner 04'00 x 10'03 From Esmaili Rugs Collection. This hand-knotted wool ...

A vintage Turkish Anatolian rug in runner format handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 2' 7" x 7' 4" Turkish rugs & carpets: Until the Great Persian Carpet Revival in the later 19th century, the “Oriental rug” was Turkish. For nearly six centuries, Turkish rugs, both scatter, room size, and even larger, thoroughly dominated the European import market. Whereas the Persian carpet can be divided into urban, village, and tribal types, in Turkey and its predecessor the Ottoman Empire, rugs almost exclusively came from village weavers and from a small number of urban workshops. Ninety percent village, nine percent city, one percent tribal. Turkish weavers have, with very few exceptions, always worked with the symmetric (Turkish) knot. Wool foundations are standard practice among both town and village weavers. The exceptions, very finely woven 20th century and recent Herekeh silks from near Istanbul, and early 17th century Ottoman Court rugs from Bursa, constitute only a tiny part of the total. Always pricey, they appealed and still appeal to the clients who want lots of knots and perfect execution instead of individual personality. The urban workshops have been centered around the western Turkish city of Oushak and its attendant port town of Smyrna. Oushak weaves with the trends in fashion. When color saturated medallion carpets were needed, Oushak was ready in the 17th and 18th centuries. When coarse red and blue carpets were required, Oushak and Smyrna in the 19th century wove them by the boatload. When tastes changed again, and the European dealers in Smyrna wanted room size carpets with lighter and unusual colors, and with Persianate designs, production ramped up in nearby Oushak. Those antique, all-wool construction turn-of-the-century carpets are still in high demand with designers. Antique carpets with allover, roughly drawn patterns on grounds of shrimp, rust, straw, cream, pale blue, and pale and pea green, hitherto unavailable colors, are in such demand today that contemporary Oushaks have attempted to mimic them with soft palettes, extra-large scale drawing and coarse weaves. Oushaks woven for the Turkish market, for palaces, houses and mosques were often oversize with large, repeating medallions, all in shades of (Turkey) red, dark blue, light blue-teal, and ivory, with lemon and green accents. Turkey, along with India, invented standard sizes. By vertically repeating the medallion, one could get one medallion, one with two end halves, two, three, etc. medallions, up to thirty or so feet in length. The process spared making new cartoons for each length and allowed a quicker turnaround time. Oushak, from the time of 15th century “Holbein” rugs onward, has always been a commercial center. The prayer niche directional rug is primarily a Turkish development. In the towns and villages east of Oushak, in Ghiordes, Kula, Ladik, Kirsehir, Mucur and Konya, among others, arch pattern scatters with bright palettes and weaves varying from relatively fine to moderate were almost the entire production. Antique examples were particularly popular in America around 1900. Other centers of village weaving were situated on the western coast and adjacent islands with the town of Melas and neighboring villages weaving geometric prayer rugs and scatters with a characteristic khaki green and lots of yellow. The other large region was in the northwest of Anatolia, near ancient Troy, with the sizable town of Bergama at its center. The satellite towns of Ezine, Karakecilli, Yuntdag, and Canakkale all wove colorful scatters with moderate weaves in all wool with geometric designs and cheerful palettes. Near to Istanbul, these were among the first Turkish rugs to reach Europe in the Renaissance. The earliest Turkish pieces depicted in Italian Old Master paintings display the so-called “Memling gul”, an allover panel pattern with hooked and stepped elements within the reserves. This pattern continues for centuries in the Konya area and in the Caucasus as well. Turkey is a land of villages and much of the most interesting Turkish weaving comes from one undiscovered village or another. The Konya-Cappadocia region of central Turkey includes the active towns of Karapinar, Karaman, Obruk, Sizma, and Tashpinar, all weaving Konya-esque scatters and long rugs. Karapinar has been active the longest, since the 17th century. The mosques in and around Konya have preserved locally-made rugs from the fourteenth. In the 20th century, the extra-long pile, many wefted Tulu rug was devised, with limited palettes and color block patterns. These are not really antique Tulus, but they must be a product of long-standing village tradition. There are thousands upon thousands of rural Turkish villages, almost all with easy access to local tribal wool. Rug students are discovering new names and rug types almost daily. The common denominators are bright colors, geometric designs, wool construction, moderate to coarse weaves and symmetric knots. Synthetic dyes hit the Turkish rug industry quickly and hard after 1870, and they penetrated to even the most off-the-beaten-track villages. This development was almost entirely negative. The village weavers used fugitive or overly bright dyes which ruined the color harmonies built up over centuries. Characteristic types disappeared or were negatively transmuted. The Turkish village rug of the 1870 to 1920 period is nothing to be proud of. In the eastern provinces, the semi-nomadic Kurdish tribes, collectively called ‘Yuruks’, weave all wool, geometric pieces with medium to medium-coarse weaves, as well as kilims and other flatweaves. The rugs employ cochineal instead of madder for the reds, mustard yellows, greens, and various blues. They are under-collected like the Persian Afshars. Their rugs are in scatter and long rug formats. The far eastern Turkish town of Erzerum has a long tradition of idiosyncratic, semi-workshop rugs and further to the east is Kars with a tradition of rugs in the Caucasian Kazak manner. One Turkish specialty is the Yastiks or cushion cover, made in pairs for the public living rooms of village houses. These are larger rugs in miniature and good ones are highly collectible. Like other Turkish rustic weavings, ones with synthetic dyes are almost totally undesirable. Only the tribal Baluch make similar cushion covers, known as pushtis or balishts, in the same small, oblong format. Yastiks always have a back, usually in plain weave, so that they can be easily stuffed. When the Imperial Carpet Factory at Herekeh near Istanbul closed in the early 20th century, the highly proficient Armenian master weavers set up in the Kum Kapi district of Istanbul where they wove all-silk, exquisitely fine and elaborately detailed small pieces, sometimes enriched with metal thread, for the most discriminating European buyers. Today the best, signed Kum Kapi pieces, usually in the “Sultan’s head” prayer niche design, can fetch upwards of $100,000. They are strictly for the wall. An Interwar all-silk room size Kum Kapi carpet is both exceedingly rare and stratospherically priced. The workshops closed in the 1930s, but the weaving of extremely fine, all-silk small rugs in Herekeh was revived in the 1960s. There has been a recent vogue for larger Turkish village vintage...

A vintage Turkish Anatolian room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 8' 1" x 11' 2".

52568 distressed Vintage Turkish Sivas rug with Rustic Arts & Crafts style. Lovingly time-worn with a traditional medallion design and subdued elegance, this hand knotted wool distre...

52774, distressed vintage Turkish Kayseri rug with rustic Artisan style 04'00 x 06'02. Traditional and neoclassical in its symmetry, this hand knotted wool distressed vintage Turkish...

A vintage Turkish runner, in the style of East Turkestan Khotan carpets, handmade during the mid-20th century.

A vintage Turkish Art Deco room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 9' 6" x 13' 4".

52742, vintage Turkish Oushak runner with Feminine Rustic Arts & Crafts style 03'06 x 12'10. This hand knotted wool vintage Turkish Oushak runner features three medallions anchored with palmette finials at either end and dotted with floral bouquets floating in an abrashed rust colored field. Each medallion is patterned with serrated tear drops, angular palmettes, and curved leaves. Complementary spandrels echo the central medallion design in each corner. The vintage Oushak rug runner...

52623, vintage Turkish Kilim rug with Organic Modern style. Light and airy combined with its simplicity, this handwoven wool vintage Turkish Kilim rug beautifully embodies organic mo...

52540, New Contemporary Turkish Oushak Rug with Pastel Colors and French Transitional Style 08'07 x 10'03. Highly stylish yet tastefully casual, this new colorful Turkish Oushak rug ...

52651, distressed vintage Turkish Sivas rug with Romantic Rustic Art Nouveau style. Balancing a timeless design with a romantic rustic sensibility, this hand knotted wool distressed ...

50503 Vintage Earth-Tone Turkish Oushak Rug, 06'08 x 10'08. Like a parchment illuminated by time and softened by the golden hush of Anatolia’s light, this hand-knotted wool vintage T...

52585, distressed vintage Turkish Sivas silk rug with Romantic French Art Deco style. The Deco style shapes, modern linear elements, and romantic French vibes is what sets this hand knotted silk distressed Turkish Sivas accent rug...

51189, distressed vintage Turkish Oushak runner with rustic neoclassical style. This hand knotted wool vintage Turkish Oushak ...

A modern Turkish patchwork-style flatweave Kilim room size carpet handmade during the 21st century using remnants of Turkish flatweaves from the mid-20th century period. Measures:...

52251 Vintage Turkish Oushak Runner with English Tudor Jacobean Style. Rich in color, intricate details, and timeless design aesthetics, this hand-knotted wool vintage Turkish Oushak...

52537, contemporary Turkish Oushak rug with pastel colors and French transitional style 09'09 x 13'10. Highly stylish yet tastefully casual, this new colorful Turkish Oushak rug feat...

50316 Brown and Cream Vintage Turkish Oushak Rug. This hand-knotted wool vintage Turkish Oushak gallery rug features a round medallion filled with cabbage roses outlined...

​52324 Rustic Style Distressed Vintage Turkish Oushak Rug, Foyer, Kitchen or Entry Rug 03’06 x 05’09. A grand lobed diamond medallion anchored with fleur de lis pendants sets the sta...

This vintage Turkish Anatolian rug showcases traditional Anatolian designs including the central medallion and the geometric and symmetric patterning of tribal motifs. Vintage Turkis...

A modern Turkish Tulu large room size rug with a low shaggy pile handmade during the 21st century. The geometric "Mayan Pyramid" design of stepped...

52160 New Colorful Turkish Oushak Rug, 05'09 x 06'08. In this hand-knotted wool Turkish Oushak rug, Anatolian elegance seamlessly merges with tribal enchantment, enhanced by a touch ...

51635 Vintage Kars Gallery Rug with Mid-Century Modern Style. Full of character and stately presence, this hand-knotted wool vintage Turkish Kars gallery ...

mid-20th century Turkish Anatolian square-size rug Details rug no. j3667 size 3' 4" x 4' 3" (102 x 130 cm)

76616 Vintage Turkish Oushak rug with vase design, light colors. This hand knotted cotton vintage Turkish Oushak rug features a directional vase design with a rod sprouting large sca...

51367 vintage Turkish Oushak rug with Tudor style. This hand knotted wool vintage Turkish Oushak rug features an oversized stepped hexagonal medallion with blooming palmette pendants...

77123, vintage Turkish Oushak Palace size rug with Biophilia Artisan and Mid-Century Modern style. With architectural biophilia elements combined naturalistic forms, this hand knotte...

77311 vintage Turkish Oushak Accent rug for Entry, Kitchen, Foyer or Bathroom. This hand knotted wool vintage Turkish Oushak rug features a central hexagonal latch-hook amulet medall...

74106, vintage Turkish Oushak rug with Mission style and warm earth-tones. This hand knotted wool vintage Turkish gallery rug features an inconspicuous central medallion in an abrash...

52506 New Modern Turkish Oushak Rug, 12'01 x 15'08. Crafted with sustainability in mind, this modern Turkish Oushak area rug undergoes a remarkable transformation, breathing new life...