Mid-20th Century More Carpets

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...

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

52410 Distressed Vintage Turkish Oushak Runner, Tribal Style Hallway Runner 03'09 x 09'01. This hand-knotted wool vintage Turk...

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 make Exact Rug Size in Feet and Inches : 5'6" x 7'9" Main Rug Color : Grey Rug Border Color : Belgian Block...

52599 Zeki Muren Vintage Turkish Sivas Rug, 04'02 x 07'01. Zeki Muren Turkish Sivas rugs, named after the illustrious Turkish singer, originate from Turkey's Sivas region. These rugs...

51810 vintage Turkish oushak rug, 05'02 x 08'08. Regal and sumptuous with incredible detail and texture, this hand knotted wool vintage Turkish Oushak rug is a captivating vision of...

50123, vintage Turkish Oushak rug. This opulent Turkish Oushak rug features a central medallion and corner design. The central medallion features a bouquet with outlined flowers on a...

Pair of matching vintage Persian Isfahan rugs With its timeless style, incredible detail and texture, this pair of hand knotted wool vintage Persian Isfahan rugs are a captivating vision of woven beauty. The eye-catching botanical pattern and traditional color palette woven into these pieces work together creating a truly Classic look. Perfect for a small space, kitchen, stair landing...

53853 Vintage Turkish Angora Wool Blanket Kilim Rug, 03'11 x 05'01. This handwoven Turkish Angora kilim rug is a warm, sun-soaked hymn to the Anatolian plateau, where the rust-colore...

Transform your space with our vintage runner rug, a timeless piece hand-knotted to perfection. Dating back to the 1960s, this rug carries the charm of history, boasting excellent vin...

53295 distressed vintage Turkish Sivas rug with rustic Mid-Century Modern style. This hand knotted wool distressed vintage Turkish Sivas rug features an all-over checkerboard pattern...

51448 Vintage Turkish Oushak Rug Runner, 05'03 x 12'06. This hand-knotted wool vintage Turkish Oushak gallery rug is a stunning testament to the refined artistry of traditional Anato...

A vintage Persian flatweave Kilim square accent rug handmade during the mid-20th century with a zebra print pattern. Measures: 5' 7" x 5' 2".

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 Turkish flatweave Kilim accent rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 7' 2" x 10' 7".

Vintage Bokhara rug 6'8'' x 10'2''.

76465 Vintage Cherry Pink Persian Tabriz Rug, 06'07 x 09'07. Tabriz rugs, originating from the historic city of Tabriz in Iran, represent the p...

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 Turkish flat-weave Kilim accent rug handmade during the mid-20th century with a striped design offset on 3 stitched panels. Measures: 6' 0" x 9' 9".

51970, distressed vintage Turkish Sivas rug with shabby chic farmhouse style. This distressed vintage Turkish Sivas rug with modern Industrial Art Deco style can make an interior spa...

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...

50256, Rustic style vintage Turkish Oushak runner, hallway runner. Sheer elegance and timeless style are on display in this Rustic vintage Turkish Oushak runner. Three grand medallio...

61095 Vintage Persian Mahal Rug, 08'07 x 11'07? ? With its beguiling ornamental elements, incredible detail and texture, this hand knotted wool ...

78591 Vintage Persian Kashan Kashmar Rug with Zir Khaki Design, 09'09 x 12'02. C?leverly composed with incredible detail and texture, this hand knotted vin...

75776 Vintage Persian Hamadan Rug, 10'04 x 13'05. This exceptional hand-knotted wool vintage Persian Hamadan rug radiates a quiet grandeur that transcends fleeting trends—an heirloom...

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...

50456 Vintage Gold Turkish Oushak Rug, 06'03 x 08'06. Antique-washed Turkish Oushak rugs originate from the Oushak region in western Turkey and are characterized by their unique was...

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...

51224 Vintage Turkish Sivas Rug, 04’11 x 07’06. Emanating grace and understated beauty this distressed vintage Turkish Sivas rug exhibits a faded earth-tone color palette with geome...

A vintage Turkish Oushak throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century with a red field and ivory border. Measures: 2' 8" x 4' 9"

78488 Vintage Swedish Kilim Rollakan Rug, 04'07 x 06'09. Emanating Scandinavian Modern design with incredible detail and texture, this handwoven Swedish rollakan rug is a captivatin...

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...

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 Turkish Anatolian tribal room size carpet handmade during the Mid-20th Century. Measures: 9' 1" x 11' 6".

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...

76409, vintage Persian Tabriz Palace rug with Federal American Colonial style. With timeless appeal, refined colors, and architectural design element...

78265 Vintage Swedish Kilim Anne Marie Boberg Rollakan rug with Scandinavian Modern Style 05'07 x 07'07. With its geometric design and bohemian hygge vibes, this hand-woven wool Swed...

A vintage Chinese carpet with a Khotan design from the second quarter of the 20th century. Measures: 9' 0" x 11' 8"

This elegant wool rug was woven by hand in the 1950s with a fantastic geometric repeat pattern design. The central pattern has been woven on a dark background with contrasting red, b...

51319, Vintage Turkish striped Kilim rug with Modern Boho Chic Tribal style. Full of tiny details and a bold expressive design combined with exuberant colors and bohemian style, this...

21438 Vintage Beni M'Guild Moroccan Rug, 06'09 x 13'07. Originating from the Beni M'Guild tribe nestled in Morocco's Middle Atlas Mountains, Beni M'Guild rugs epitomize a cherished t...

A vintage Turkish Art Deco style small room size carpet handmade during the Mid-20th Century. Measures: 7' 0" x 9' 9".

70866 Vintage Turkish Oushak Rug, 03'00 X 04'06. The hand-knotted wool vintage Turkish Oushak rug seamlessly blends rustic warmth with the whimsical curves of Art Nouveau. Its aged b...

74669 Extra-Long Vintage Persian Kerman Rug Runner, 02'06 x 19'03. Persian Kerman carpet runners, originating from the city of Kerman in south-central Iran, are narrow rugs commonly ...

A rustic vintage Persian Malayer small accent rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 3' 10" x 7' 3".

53302, distressed vintage Turkish Sivas rug with Rustic Cubist style. This hand knotted wool distressed vintage Turkish Sivas rug features an all-over checkered pattern comprised of ...

73674 Vintage Red Turkish Oushak Rug Runner, 03'07 x 11'07. Turkish Oushak carpet runners epitomize a unique style of traditional rugs that trace their roots back to the Oushak regio...

A vintage Persian Mahal folk throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 3' 0" x 5' 1".

Highly cultivated in design, this vintage Mahal Persian rug highlights a modern traditional style. Featuring a timeless and Classic Persian ...

76070 vintage Persian Mehraban vase rug with French Baroque style. Sure to captivate the most discerning aesthete, this hand knotted wool vintage Persian Sarouk rug is the epitome of...

A vintage Persian Quom accent rug handmade during the mid-20th century with a rust-red field and slate to bluish-green border. Measures: 7' 0" x 9' 11".

21489 Vintage Berber Boujad Moroccan Rug, 06'04 x 09'06. Step into the free-spirited embrace of Berber Tribe tradition with this enchanting hand-knotted wool vintage Boujad Moroccan ...

50873 Zeki Muren Distressed Vintage Turkish Sivas Rug with Industrial Art Deco Style. Warm and inviting combined with a bold pattern, this hand knotted wool distressed vintage Turkis...

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...

?61124 vintage Persian Heriz rug, 07'07 x 08'08. Warm and inviting with a classic style, this hand-knotted wool vintage Persian Heriz rug charms with ease. The abrashed red field fea...

52562 Distressed Vintage Turkish Kilim Rug, 06'04 x 09'08. This handwoven wool distressed vintage Turkish kilim rug unveils a delicate symphony of timeworn beauty, where every thread...

A vintage Persian flatweave Kilim large room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 10' 0" x 15' 2".