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71963 Antique Persian Mashhad Rug, 09'05 X 12'04. Originating from the northeastern city of Mashhad in Iran, Mashhad rugs epitomize the pin...

A contemporary Turkish patchwork style flatweave accent rug created during the 21st century using remnants of vintage Turkish flatweave Kilim rugs...

Ashly Fine Rugs presents a new distressed modern Afghan rug. These rugs have been overdyed and distressed with a custom design to give them an antique feel, yet a modern look. This p...

A new Turkish flatweave Kilim large room size carpet handmade during the 21st century inspired by vintage Persian Kilims. Measures: 12' 0" x 14'...

cc-tapis launches the Les Arcs Collection by French designer and architect Charlotte Perriand featuring 5 new rug designs and unseen archives in an all-encompassing exhibition curated by Dan Thawley, editor in chief of magazine “A magazine curated by...

A contemporary Turkish flatweave large carpet handmade during the 21st century in a beige-white shade. Measures: 13' 6" x 16' 3".

A colorful modern Turkish flatweave Kilim room size carpet handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 9' 9" x 12' 1".

A contemporary Turkish flatweave Kilim room size carpet handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 9' 5" x 12' 1".

A modern Turkish flatweave Kilim room size carpet handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 11' 2" x 14' 2".

A contemporary Turkish flatweave Kilim room size carpet in beige/cream handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 9' 6" x 12' 7".

A contemporary Turkish room size carpet handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 9' 7" x 11' 3".

A vintage Persian reversible flatweave Kilim accent rug, in shades of orange and green, handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 6' 2" x 9' 10".

A vintage Persian Gabbeh throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 3' 2" x 4' 1" Persian Rugs & Carpets: Persia (Iran) is a moderately large country with a very long history and an enormous art/craft/industry built around the handmade carpet. Until the discovery of oil, carpets were the largest Persian export. The craft goes back to ancient times, although the history is more broken than one might expect or desire. The Pazyryk rug...

La collezione di tappeti contemporanei "Sahil" fonde artigianato antico e sensibilità ecologica in tappeti dal carattere autentico e sostenibile. Realizzati in 100% iuta, un materia...

A vintage Persian Kurd throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 3' 7" x 5' 2" Persian rugs & carpets: Persia (Iran) is a...

A modern Turkish large oversize carpet handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 13' 8" x 20' 8".

"Paglietta Cotta" è un tappeto moderno d'alto artigianato che combina il fascino senza tempo della fibra di iuta con l’esclusivo filato lucido ad alte prestazioni di G.T.DESIGN, gara...

A vintage Turkish Anatolian accent rug handmade during the mid-20th century with a modern and colorful design in jewel tones. Measures: 5' 0" x 8' 1".

"Paglietta Cotta" è un tappeto moderno d'alto artigianato che combina il fascino senza tempo della fibra di iuta con l’esclusivo filato lucido ad alte prestazioni di G.T.DESIGN, gara...

Here Liesel Plambeck is inspired by 1930s deco design. The artist tames the surface with a very clean line bound on four sides by a simple block border. The lines are silk. The field...

A vintage Turkish flatweave Kilim room size carpet in shades of white and grey handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 8' 0" x 12' 9".

A modern Turkish pictorial carpet of a pouncing tiger from the 21st century. The tiger sits atop an ivory field enclosed with a seafoam blue border with large floral motifs in red. ...

A vintage Turkish Anatolian throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 3' 9" x 5' 10".

A modern Turkish flat-weave Kilim room size carpet handmade during the 21st century with a contemporary and colorful design. Measures: 10' 9" x 13' 5" Flat-weave Rugs & Carpets...

Modern Midnight Wool Rug – Subtle Elegance in Motion by Doris Leslie Blau Size: 16'0" × 16'0" (487 × 487 cm) Infused with a sense of understated luxury, this modern Indian wool rug p...

A vintage Turkish flatweave Kilim accent rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 6' 7" x 9' 3".

G.T.DESIGN’s "Lanagrossa" in the color Bianco (Warm White), is a modern rug in pure wool in warm neutral hues. A design of Deanna Comellini, Creative Director of the Italian manufact...

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...

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...

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

“Paglietta” è un iconico tappeto contemporaneo firmato dalla designer Deanna Comellini, fondatrice e art director del brand italiano G.T.DESIGN. Sofisticato e allo stesso tempo prat...

A modern Turkish flatweave Kilim accent rug handmade during the 21st century with a modern design in black and blue. Measures: 6' 5" x 8' 8".

A window on the world we belong to: This is how designer Marcantonio likes to describe the Cielo and Terra carpets. A way to always bear in mind t...

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' 1" x 8' 6".

A vintage Turkish flatweave Kilim accent rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 6' 3" x 8' 8".

A vintage Turkish flatweave Kilim accent rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 5' 11" x 9' 0".

A vintage Turkish flat-weave Kilim room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 10' 7" x 13' 7" 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...

Large square Modern rug in Minimalist design in off white and beige. Country of Origin: India; Keivan Woven Arts/ Rug/ KHN-34904 Type: Modern, Minima...

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...

A vintage Turkish flatweave Kilim room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 10' 0" x 13' 11".

A modern Turkish flatweave Kilim patchwork style room size carpet handmade during the 21st century incorporating remnants of vintage Kilim rugs from the mid-20th century period. M...

A contemporary Turkish flatweave Kilim room size carpet handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 8' 5" x 11' 11".

A vintage Persian Mahal throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 1' 6" x 2' 6".

A modern Turkish flatweave Kilim room size carpet handmade during the 21st century with some tribal design elements in geometric form in shades of grey, brown, and red, over a cream ...

A modern Turkish flatweave Kilim oversize carpet handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 14' 7" x 19' 9".

A vintage Turkish flatweave Kilim room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 8' 7" x 11' 6".

A modern Sultanabad-style Persian Mahal large oversize carpet handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 13' 0" x 18' 3.

A modern Turkish flat-weave Kilim large room size carpet handmade during the 21st century with a colorful horizontally striped pattern. A statement piece with its bright and whimsica...

A vintage Turkish flatweave Kilim accent rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 6' 0" x 9' 6".

A modern Turkish flat-weave Kilim room size rug handmade during the 21st century with a colorful horizontal pattern. A statement piece with its bright and whimsical colors. Measur...

A contemporary Turkish flatweave Kilim room size carpet in beige/cream handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 10' 2" x 12' 11".

This Orley Shabahang signature "Canyon Sunset" carpet from our Art Deco collection consists of handspun wool that is both organic vegetable-dyed as well as undyed. Showcasing the nat...

A rustic modern Turkish flatweave Kilim style large oversize carpet handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 16' 7" x 20' 7".

A modern Turkish Oushak room size carpet handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 9' 6" x 12' 0".

A vintage Turkish Anatolian throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 3' 4" x 6' 7".

A vintage Turkish Anatolian gallery rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 5' 5" x 11' 3".

Abstract Modern “Parched Desert” Wool Rug by Doris Leslie Blau Size: 8'1" × 10'0" (246 × 304 cm). The “Parched Desert” rug is a masterful expression of abstract modern design inspire...

A vintage Turkish Anatolian throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 3' 1" x 5' 7".

A vintage Persian flatweave Kilim accent rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 6' 0" x 9' 11".

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...