Mid-20th Century More Carpets

77571 Vintage Persian Nain Wool and Silk Rug, 08'01 x 12'09. This exquisite hand-knotted wool and silk vintage Persian Nain rug showcases a harmonious fusion of artistry and traditio...

This fabulous Hand-Knotted carpet has been created and designed for extra strength and durability. This rug has been handcrafted for weeks in the traditional method that is used to m...

76361 Vintage Persian Tabriz Rug, 08'00 X 11'07. Understated elegance meets Italian Nonna Chic in this vintage Persian Tabriz rug. The intricate floral design and earth-tone colors ...

79008 Vintage Persian Heriz Rug Runner, 03'04 x 10'08. This exquisite hand-knotted wool vintage Persian Heriz rug runner embodies the timeless artistry and craftsmanship of the Heriz...

78979 Vintage Chinese Round Peking Pictorial Rug, 04'00 x 03'09. This exquisite hand-knotted wool vintage Chinese round Peking pictorial rug is a captivating example of traditional C...

Beautiful and decorative vintage Tabriz rug, country of origin: Persia, circa mid-20th century – Size: 10 ft 10 in x 14 ft 4 in (3.3 m x 4.37 m).

78715 Vintage Red Persian Mahal Rug, 07'02 x 10'02. Originating from Iran's Mahallat region in central Northwestern Iran, Persian Mahal rugs stand as exquisite examples of unparallel...

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 fabulous hand knotted carpet has been created and designed for extra strength and durability. This rug has been handcrafted for weeks in the traditional method that is used to m...

This fabulous Hand-Knotted carpet has been created and designed for extra strength and durability. This rug has been handcrafted for weeks in the traditional method that is used to m...

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-...

51436 Vintage Turkish Yastik Rug, 01'11 x 02'11. This hand-knotted wool vintage Turkish Yastik rug embodies a delicate balance between timeless beauty and relaxed refinement. At the ...

50339, vintage Turkish Oushak accent rug, entry or foyer rug. This hand-knotted wool vintage Turkish Oushak rug features a modern traditional style. Immersed in Anatolian history and...

Tribal motifs have been intricately woven into this fine wool rug, constructed in the 1950s. This piece features a highly decorative central design and the border with a dark blue ba...

A vintage Turkish runner rug for hallway decor. Finely hand-knotted with even medium wool pile on cotton foundation. Very good condition. Sturdy and as clean as a brand new rug (deep...

53038, vintage Turkish Oushak Prayer rug with Tribal Folk Art Charm. With its luminous warm hues and beguiling beauty, this hand knotted wool vintage Turkish Oushak prayer rug is imm...

77664 Vintage Turkish Serapi Rug, 10'02 x 13'05. With its rugged beauty and timeless design, this hand knotted wool vintage Turkish Serapi rug is poised to impress. The eye-catching geometric pattern and time-softened colors woven into this vintage Serapi rug...

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-...

51967 Distressed Vintage Turkish Sivas Rug with Rustic Modern English Style 02'07 x 06'02. Balancing a timeless floral design with traditional sensibility and a lovingly timeworn pat...

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-...

50976 Vintage Turkish Yastik Rug, 01'06 x 03'00. Immerse yourself in the vibrant allure of this hand-knotted wool vintage Turkish Yastik rug, a true masterpiece of Turkish weaving cr...

78889 Vintage Persian Lori Rug, 04'01 x 05'11. This hand-knotted wool vintage Persian Lori rug is a mesmerizing blend of traditional artistry and cultural symbolism, representing the...

73862 Vintage Turkish Oushak Rug, Entry or Foyer Rug 03'06 x 05'08. This vintage Turkish Oushak rug features a modern traditional style. Immersed in Anatolia...

78705 Vintage Persian Turkoman Rug, 02'11 x 03'08. Persian Turkoman rugs, originating from Turkmenistan, Iran, and Afghanistan, are renowned for their quality craftsmanship and intri...

Geometric mid-20th century Turkish Kilim tribal flatweave rug Measures: 5'6'' x 10'4'' circa mid-20th century.

Adana Kilim rug. A large tribal Kilim rug from Southern Turkey, woven in two symmetrical halves, as is typical of nomadic work, featuring a classical desig...

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-...

Mid 20th century tribal Turkish scatter size rug. Measures: 2'5'' x 4'8''.  

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-...

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-...

78585 Distressed Vintage Persian Tabriz Rug, 08'05 x 12'01. Rustic elegance meets unpretentious and simple in this distressed vintage Persian Tabriz rug. The faded floral pattern an...

50984 Vintage Turkish Yastik Rug, 01'08 x 03'04. This enchanting hand-knotted wool vintage Turkish Yastik rug tells a story woven with rich symbolism and tradition. The open red fiel...

A finely hand-knotted vintage Central Anatolian rug from 1960s. The rug has even low wool pile on cotton foundation. It is heavy and lays flat on the floor, in very good condition wi...

50935 Vintage Turkish Yastik Rug, 01'07 x 02'08. This hand-knotted wool vintage Turkish Oushak rug exudes a profound sense of history and artistry, making it a captivating centerpiec...

Kurdish "Jajim" rug with good luck charms. A tribal floor cover or rug with colorful stripes and scraps of fabric tied as good luck charms.

A vintage Persian Malayer runner from the mid-20th century. Measures: 3' 8" x 13' 2"

Nice midcentury Baluch rug with a nice design and beautiful colors, entirely hand knotted with wool velvet on wool foundation.

This is a vintage European Spanish rug that was used as a salesman sampler showing clients the different designs with correlating numbers they can ord...

Fine quality hand woven rug geometric motifs with muted soft colors of cream , lime , Sand and camel . This piece of woven art runner is great floor cover fo...

This fabulous Hand-Knotted carpet has been created and designed for extra strength and durability. This rug has been handcrafted for weeks in the traditional method that is used to m...

A vintage Caucasian Karabagh accent rug handmade during the mid-20th century with an informally rendered pictorial depiction of a tiger. Measures: 4' 4" x 5' 11".

Karapinar rug with lattice design. Rug as great wool, tight weave, lovely interpretation of a well-known design from this region. Larger than usual size ...

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-...

A vintage Turkish Oushak accent rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 5' 6" x 8' 7".

A finely hand-knotted vintage Turkish rug from 1960s. The rug is made of medium wool pile on wool foundation. It is heavy and lays flat on the floor, in very good condition with no i...

54000 Vintage Turkish Oushak Rug, 04'01 x 07'09. Woven with ancestral artistry in the storied heartlands of Western Anatolia, this hand knotted wool vintage Turkish Oushak rug reveal...

West Anatolian "Jijim" rug. A tribal flat-weave rug from Western Turkey, woven in the intricate "jijim" brocading technique, featuring a simple design of multicolored concentric diam...

Nigde "Yatak" rug. A very nice shaggy tribal rug from the foothills of the Taurus Mountains around Nigde in Central Turkey. Rug has a very simple design in great colors and excellent...

A vintage Turkish flat-weave Kilim accent rug handmade during the mid-20th century.

51386 Vintage Turkish Oushak Rug,03'06 x 04'11. This hand knotted wool vintage Turkish Oushak rug is a masterpiece of rich tradition and vibrant aesthetics, crafted from the finest h...

A vintage Turkish flat-weave Kilim room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 10' 1" x 14' 0" 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...

51192 Vintage Turkish Wagireh Yastik Rug, 01'08 x 02'04. This hand-knotted wool vintage Turkish Wagireh Yastik rug is a captivating blend of artistry and cultural heritage, serving a...

Chevron and gorgonian type coral design area rug in a color palette of deep coral, sapphire blue and oatmeal. Coastal vibes, circa 1970s. True measurements 4' 7" x 6' 7". I can only...

50305, vintage Turkish Oushak Accent rug, entry or foyer rug. This vintage Turkish Oushak rug features a modern traditional style. Immersed in Anatolian history and refined colors, t...

51113, distressed vintage Turkish Overdyed gray rug with Feminine Industrial style. Defined and raw combined with luxe utilitarian appeal and a sophi...

A vintage Turkish rug. Finely hand-knotted with even medium wool pile on cotton foundation. Very good condition. Sturdy and as clean as a brand new rug (deep washed professionally). ...

This fabulous Hand-Knotted carpet has been created and designed for extra strength and durability. This rug has been handcrafted for weeks in the traditional method that is used to m...

Kurdish "Jajim" rug. A tribal flat-weave rug with fine weave and woven in bands. Lots of good luck charms.

53071, vintage Turkish Oushak prayer rug with Rustic Tuscan style. Imbued with earthy-inspired hues and architectural elements of naturalistic forms, this hand knotted wool vintage Turkish Oushak rug beautifully embodies rustic Tuscan style. The lovingly time-worn abrashed field features an all-over botanical pattern composed of lively tree of life motifs, acanthus leaves, floral sprigs, and small mihrab niches with chandeliers and vases. The strong color gradations woven into the composition authenticate this gorgeous vintage Anatolian prayer rug...

Mid-20th century Turkish Deco rug with a floral design in green, blue, and ivory Measures: 6'10''x 9'8''.