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Vintage Moroccan Rug with geometric decoration

Uzbak Suzani Rug 3'10'' x 4'0"

A vintage Persian Malayer accent rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 4' 7" x 6' 7".

- 1959 - Probably design of A. Kybal - Double-sided - Very well preserved.

A vintage Persian Malayer throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 3' 8" x 5' 9".

Measures: 4'5 x 8'3 This Turkish Oushak is set on a chocolate-brown background and features a light gray/taupe border. The overall palette remains cool, with accent colors of ice ...

20th Century Swedish rag rug. Featuring a stripe design in muted tones of peach and lime green stripes. This rug is machine washable at 30 degrees. Stock Number: RT6024473

Antique Persian Malayer rug with brown field and stylized floral design, rug EMB-8501-178038, country of origin / type: Iran / Malayer, circa 1920 This antique Persian Malayer rug (...

Malayer antique runner from Persia with geometric floral central field design, rug ZIR-58-KV-04, country of origin / type: Iran / Malayer, circa 1910. This antique Persian Malayer...

Beautiful Traditional Persian Tabriz oversize rug from the second quarter of the 20th century. In reds and blue with an all-over directional tree ...

Oushak carpets are named after the large town in western Anatolia (Turkey) where they were woven. This town has been a major weaving center for rug production since the reign of the ...

An early 20th century magnificent light color Antique Persian Kerman in predominant blues and golds. Details rug no. j4466 size 8' 9" x 12' 10" (267 x 391 cm)

A vintage Persian Malayer throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 3' 9" x 5' 2".

Measures: 5'8 x 9'2. The field displays a Oushak design, utilizing repeating stylized floral motifs. The border homes a foliage-like pattern complimentary to the field design. The entire piece has been overdyed in shades of purple. Country of Origin: Turkey; Type: Oushak; Design: Floral, Overdyed, All-Over; Keivan Woven Arts: rug EN-P13616; Vintage Overdyed Turkish Oushak with All-Over Floral Design in Purples; Vintage Overdyed Oushak, Purple Oushak...

Antique Mongolian rug, Country of Origin: Mongolia, Circa date: Early 20th century. Size: 5 ft 3 in x 8 ft 9 in (1.6 m x 2.67 m)  

Colorful vintage Turkish oushak with Geometric design. Vintage Turkish rug in green, soft yellow, pale purple, ivory, red, tan & taupe, keivan woven arts / rug EN-176061, country of origin / type: Turkey / oushak, circa 1940. Measures: 3'2 x 4'6. This vintage small rug...

A vintage Turkish flatweave Kilim room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 9' 11" x 13' 3".

An antique Persian Malayer throw rug handmade during the early 20th century. Measures: 2' 8" x 4' 0".

Limited edition rug design by Claude Picasso the son of Pablo Picasso. Manufactured in Copenhagen by Rapsel 1990. Brand new never been on the floor th...

Measures: 7'9'' x 8'4''. This piece is a thick and lush vintage tribal Moroccan carpet which originated from the northern Middle Atlas mountains. The weavers of the piece, people ...

Turkish vintage Kilim flat-weave small gallery rug in brown and cream with stripe design, with Minimalist design and stripes, rug TU-NED-33, country of origin / type: Turkey / Kilim,...

Taking months or even years to create, this handwoven kilim carpet is made of wool tinted with natural vegetable dyes, resulting in a beautiful palette o...

An antique Persian Kurd throw rug handmade during the early 20th century. Measures: 3' 6" x 5' 7".

A vintage Turkish flat-weave Kilim room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 10' 5" x 13' 5" Flat-weave rugs & carpets: Knotted pile rugs are just one small part of a vast universe of textile techniques suitable for heavy use. If you can imagine it, some weaver has tried it out. Pieces can be roughly divided into those reversible from the start and those never, or at least not initially, reversible. Thus, kilims are considered reversible, while everything else is not. Kilims are tapestry woven rugs with both sides the same, in either slit technique where colors change, or with various methods of avoiding slits. Slit tapestry weave goes back to ancient times and Coptic Egyptian weavers used it for ornaments on garments and larger wall hangings. Slits can be avoided by dovetailing of colors (warp sharing) or by interlocking the wefts. The Navajo weavers of the Southwest practice the first while the fine shawl weavers of Kashmir and Kerman employed the second. Interlocking produces a one-faced fabric, with smooth and rough, ridged faces. The typical Turkish, Caucasian, or Persian rustic kilim shows slits, but never long ones. Aubusson French carpets are also slit tapestries and the long color transitions are sewn up as part of the regular maintenance. Some kilims are very fine. The best antique urban Sehna (Senna) kilims on wool, cotton or silk warps approximate the comparable rugs in refinement and are the most desirable of all Persian kilims. Although the various flatweave techniques are usually expressed in geometric, simple, often repeating, patterns, Sehna kilims demonstrate that even the most intricate designs can be effectively rendered in flat-stich. The term ‘kilim’ has been extended to cover any pileless, weft-faced heavy textile. Thus, the sectioned and joined northeastern Persian horizontally striped wool rugs are called ‘kilims’. So are the plain-weave end finishes of pile rugs. All these are weft-faced, weft patterned flatweaves. These sectioned pieces are woven not on a frame loom, but one steadied by the weaver at one end and with the warps fastened down at the other. Only relatively recent have these tribal pieces become available. They are used as floorcoverings, hangings, room dividers, furniture covers. They are mostly bitonal in shades of natural dark brown and beige. Some more recent pieces show weaver innovations with ikat and moire effects. Work proceeds quickly and a skilled weaver can complete a thirty foot strip in almost no time. Wefts, the elements added as weaving progresses, play an essential part in what is a flatweave. The best-known example of an extra-weft, wrapping technique is on Caucasian and tribal Persian Soumaks, where a pattern weft wraps around the fixed warp, changing as weaving progresses. Soumaks can be large carpets, Kuba in the Caucasus, small bag faces (Caucasian and Persian Shah Savan saddle bags), or cover scatter rugs (Persian Afshars). The Soumak technique is fast, and a weaver can work much more quickly than tying knots. The left-over wefts are cut off on the back, so the front and back are initially different. As a Soumak on the floor gets used, these weft yarns wear away and the two sides converge although the exact texture remains distinct. There are other ways of pattern by weft. Often on smaller tribal pieces, the pattern weft(s) is (are) part of the weft structure, moving in an out, and holding the whole thing together. These wefts can be complementary or added (supplementary), continuous across the flatweave or cut off as they travel unneeded across the verso. Supplementary weft flatweaves are often very compact and substantial. The nomadic Turkmen and Balouch tribes employ both supplementary and complementary weft techniques on their pieces. Supplementary wefts are often raised on the recto (front) while complementary wefts are flat to the surface. Tribal Kurds employ this extra-wefting technique. The Balouch of Pakistan use complementary wefts almost exclusively on their small woven paraphernalia like salt bags. Flatweave techniques may be combined on a single piece. Afshar rugs employ plain-weave end strips, preceded by Soumak bands, with pile sections between. The large Bakhtiari saddlebags feature Soumak work, pile “islands” an areas of plain-weave. Qashqai rugs and kilims frequently displays checkerboard end strips in continuous, complementary wefting. Another distinct flatweave type is the jajim (jijim, cecim) in which a pattern is added with colored wefts as the weaving of the plain-weave ground progresses. Here the wefts are discontinuous and the pattern stands proud from the voided ground. Often made in two pieces on narrow looms and edge-sewn together, these may have geometric patterns. The term ‘jajim’ also refers to the assembled warp-faced strip and stripe covers from the Shah Savan of northwest Persia, the pattern is defined by warps alone, usually in plain stripes, but sometimes in designs of ladders, snakes, human figures and various animals. Here the color changing warps are continuous. Most are wool, a few are silk. Better to call these something else. Indian ‘Dhurries’ are all cotton kilims and ‘shatrangis’ employ wool wefts on cotton warps. Dhurries are slitless. The cotton texture is more appropriate to the humid and warm climate of the Indian subcontinent. Modern Dhurries...

Beautiful Ivory Background Vintage Moroccan Rug, Country Of Origin: Morocco, Circa date: Late 20th Century. Size: 4 ft 4 in x 8 ft 5 in (1.32 m x 2.57 m).

A vintage Persian Malayer throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 3' 9" x 5' 1".

An early 20th Century Corridor Size Persian Bibikabad Carpet with an all-over willow tree pattern in warm colors Details rug no. j4432 size 7' 2" x 18' 1" (218 x 551 cm

Turkish Kilim vintage carpet in green, tan, orange. Keivan Woven Arts / rug TU-NED-610, country of origin / type: Turkey / Kilim, circa 1950 This Kilim rug from Turkey features a ...

78483 Vintage Swedish Kilim Rug Brita Svefors Rollakan, 05'02 x 07'10. Showcasing the bolder side of Scandinavian design, this handwoven vintage Swedish rollakan rug is a captivating vision of woven beauty. The checkered pattern and earthy colorway woven into this piece work together creating a truly one-of-a-kind look. The composition features an allover checkerboard pattern composed of square compartments decorated with stepped lozenges in alternating colors. With its striking appeal, incredible detail and texutre, this vintage flatweave kilim rug...

Antique Persian Tabriz rug with all-over floral design in light blue/ light green, salmon, coral, red-coral, and cream rug SUS-2012-697, country of origin / type: Iran / Tabriz, circ...

Measures: 2'7 x 12'2 This vintage Turkish Kilim runner features light, faded colors in a simple striped pattern. This vintage piece is timeless with simple palette and scheme, ma...

A vintage Turkish Anatolian throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 3' 6" x 4' 11" 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 Beautiful Shaggy Berber Beni Ourain Vintage Moroccan Rug, Country Of Origin / Rug Type: Vintage Moroccan Rug, Circa Date: Vintage Mid Twentieth Century. Size: 5 ft 8 in x 12 ft (1....

Light gray/blue background Persian Tabriz rug with Small scale repeating Herati design, rug EN-121, country of origin / type: Iran / Tabriz, circa 1920. This magnificent 20th cent...

Vintage ivory and brown Moroccan rug, origin: Morocco, circa mid-20th century. Size: 4 ft 5 in x 7 ft (1.35 m x 2.13 m). Here is a unique and thought-provoking vintage carpet – a m...

Measures: 2'7 x 13'9. This artfully handwoven Turkish mid century design runner displays a unique geometric design and color combination, featuring yellow background and repeating t...

An antique Persian Kurdish accent rug handmade during the early 20th century. Measures: 6'0" x 9'5".

This lovely Antique Heriz rug, hailing from northwestern Iran (circa 1920s), features a central medallion design surrounded by exquisitely defined geometric motifs. The rug has been ...

small mid-20th century Turkish village small rug. 3'4'' x 6'3'

A vintage Turkish flatweave Kilim gallery rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 5' 4" x 10' 10".

Antique colorful Persian Heriz-Serapi Runner with a bold Geometric design, Keivan Woven Arts / Rug/EMB-9693-P13532 Made in the early 20th century, this charming Heriz-Serapi runner...

Ivory and Black Moroccan Beni Ourain Rug, Origin: Morocco, Circa: Mid-20th Century. Size: 5 ft 5 in x 11 ft 8 in (1.65 m x 3.56 m) This fascinating Beni Ourain Moroccan rug features...

This antique Turkish Kars rug has been hand-knotted in wool and features an all-over, sub-geometric diamond design rendered in orange and earthy tones. A complementary, multi-tiered ...

Rare Antique NW Bakshayesh Navy, Clay, Terracotta, Salmon, etc., Stunning Design & Size Size: 5 x 7 Age: Antique Pile: Low with wonderful age-related patina This rug is one-of-...

Antique Malayer runner, rug PTA-21015, country of origin / type: Persian / Malayer, circa Early-20th century. This antique Malayer features an all-over Herati Design set upon a da...

Karabagh Tiger Rug, 20th Century (1st Quarter) Additional Information: Dimensions: 5'10" L x 4'2" W Origin: Caucasus Period: 20th Century Condition: Excellent Rug ID: 20863

Tribal design Moroccan Vintage rug in Purple, Red, Orange, and Green rug KBE-LCB-18-22, country of origin / type: Morocco / Tribal, circa 1940. This gorgeous vintage Moroccan carp...

53945 Vintage Greek Natural Flokati Rug, 05'01 x 06'06. Flokati rugs, originating from Greece's Epirus region, are timeless handwoven woolen carpets celebr...

Vintage long colorful kilim gallery runner with stripe design in multi colors. Keivan Woven Arts / rug EN-179860, country of origin / type: Turkey / Kilim, circa 1950. Featuring a s...

Antique Persian Sultanabad with Medallion in Yellow Cream, Blue Red and Green Measures: 8'10” x 12'4” Antique Persian Sultanabad Rug, Keivan Woven Arts: rug/ G-0405; Country of O...

A very rare rug from the 20th century Masters Collection by the Scandinavian Company EGE. The Art Line Collection with motifs from Pablo Picasso was commissio...

Vintage Persian Heriz rug, rug PTA-21023, country of origin / type: Persian / Heriz, circa Mid-20th Century. This Vintage Heriz rug, hailing from northwestern Iran (circa 1950's),...

Our sun-faded rugs are all one-of-a-kind, hand-knotted, 50-70 year-old vintage pieces. They each boast their own singular handmade aesthetic drawn from the centuries-old Turkish rug-...

This fantastic Turkish Tulu rug features a stunning Mid-Century Modern design enclosed within a semi-checkered border. The colors included are brown, off-white and blue. The wool use...

Kilim vintage rug from Turkey with striped pattern, rug Tu-Ned-4733, country of origin / type: Turkey / Kilim, circa 1940 This tribal Kilim from Turkey bears vertical striped design...

Measures: 5'11 x 9'6 Set on a khaki background and brown border, this vintage Turkish Oushak displays an unique earth tone color combination with various shades of taupe and army ...

A Magnificent Beni Ourain Vintage Moroccan Rug, Country of Origin: Morocco, Circa Date: Vintage Mid 20th Century – Size: 5 ft x 11 ft 6 in (1.52 m x 3.51 m) This elegant vintage mid-century rug created in Morocco features a remarkable cellular latticework pattern embellished with zigzagging borders and flat-weave ends. The traditional designs of the Beni Ourain rug weavers of the Atlas Mountains in Morocco are distinctive and add a charming tribal appeal to the room. These magnificent vintage Moroccan rugs are produced using techniques and traditions that go back thousands of years. The designs are often simple and primitive representations of the natural world around them. Many of the symbols within this soft shag textured Moroccan rug have special meaning for the people, even though they appear as an abstract design to the modern eye...

Early 20th century antique Persian Malayer rug in variegated charcoal, brown, green and blue background and salmon border A very fine antique Persian Malayer rug with all-over design...

Geometric stripe design Kilim runner in multi-colors, rug TU-NED-628, country of origin / type: Turkey / Kilim, circa 1950 This vintage Kilim displays an array of designs, including a striped pattern and small geometric prints. The designs are rendered in various shades of sherbet orange, steel blue, lime green, dark gray and muted sienna red. This rug will make a playful addition to casual spaces such as beach and lake...

Are you looking for a Scandinavian Carpet, timeless addition to your home? Look no further than the Rollakan Swedish Rug! This rug features a muted color palette and minimalist desig...