Tribal More Carpets

20647 Vintage Red Talsint Moroccan Rug, 06'00 x 14'05. Marvel at the enchanting artistry of this hand-knotted wool vintage Talsint Moroccan rug, originating from the Figuig region in...

an early 20th century tribal ersari rug in green and brown with a mini khani pattern often found in 19th century caucasian rugs Details rug no. j3942 size 10' 3" x 12' 10" (312 x 39...

A vintage Turkish Anatolian tribal room size carpet handmade during the Mid-20th Century. Measures: 9' 11" x 12' 10".

21573 Vintage Berber Moroccan Azilal rug with Tribal Style 02'07 x 05'06. With its simplicity, tribal style, incredible detail and texture, this hand knotted wool vintage Berber Moro...

Illustrating a leopardess prowling the jungle floor searching for her next prey, this vintage Persian Qashqai leopard carpet measures 3’10” x 6’3”. Inspired by the Panthera Pardus...

60922 Antique Persian Afshar Rug, 05'02 x 06'06. Antique-washed Persian Afshar rugs, originating from the Afshar tribe in Iran, offer a modern twist on traditional craftsmanship. The...

21584 Vintage Berber Moroccan Azilal rug with Bohemian Tribal Style 03'00 x 04'09. Showcasing a bold expressive tribal design, incredible detail and texture, this hand knotted wool v...

60950 Antique Persian Azerbaijan runner with Modern Tribal Style 03'10 x 13'10. Warm and inviting with a bold tribal design, yet subtle and conservative, this hand-knotted wool antique Persian Azerbaijan runner is poised to impress. The abrashed brown field features a variety of large medallions running along the center decorated with an all-over geometric pattern composed of Elibelinde, eye, Goz, cross motifs, rosettes, pinwheels, protection amulets...

A vintage Persian pictorial gallery format rug handmade by the Bakhtiari tribe during the mid-20th century. Measures: 4' 10" x 12' 6".

73255, antique Kurdish Persian Hallway runner with Modern Tribal style 03'02 x 13'08. Reflecting extraordinary detail and modern tribal style with an intimate patina, this hand knotted wool antique Kurdish Persian runner features an all-over repetitive pattern of serrated star motifs. It is enclosed with a triple border. With a gorgeous poly-chromatic color palette and impressive geometric design, this antique Kurdish carpet...

74822 Vintage Red Talsint Moroccan Rug, 05'00 x 08'03. Behold the captivating craftsmanship of this hand-knotted wool vintage red Talsint Moroccan rug, hailing from the Figuig region...

21393 vintage Berber Beni Ourain Moroccan rug with Tribal style 06'06 x 11'07. With its simplicity, plush pile and tribal style, this hand knotted w...

53806 New Turkish Oushak Runner with Modern Hacienda Style, 02'11 x 13'02. With its expressive tribal design, incredible detail and texture, this hand-...

20733, Vintage Moroccan Boujad Rug with Tribal Style, Colorful Moroccan Berber Carpet. This hand-knotted wool vintage Moroccan Boujad rug h...

A vintage Persian pictorial Bakhtiari accent rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 5' 0" x 6' 10".

20993 Modern Beni Mrirt Moroccan Rug, 05'09 x 08'00. Beni Mrirt rugs, originating from the skilled artisans of the Beni Mrirt tribe in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco, are renowned fo...

21208 Vintage Berber Red Beni M'Guild Moroccan rug with Tribal Style 07'01 x 13'00. With its simplicity, plush pile and tribal style, this hand knotted wool vintage Beni M'Guild Moro...

21328 Vintage Beni M'Guild Moroccan Rug, 07'00 x 11'04. This hand-knotted wool vintage Beni M'Guild Moroccan rug is a stunning representation of the rich cultural heritage of the Ber...

A vintage Persian flat-weave tribal Kilim room size accent rug handmade during the mid-20th century with a zebra print design in ivory and black with red bindings. Measures: 6' 5"...

A good Antique Tribal Qashqai rug, triple linked medallion design with soft colours Circa 1880 A classic Qashqai tribal rug with three medallions each containing a version of the Qa...

This elegant handwoven wool area rug was constructed in the late 20th century around 1980 in Turkey. The design features cream, brown, blue and rust colours that make up the fantasti...

21687 Antique Persian Afshar rug with Nomadic Tribal style 04'01 x 05'10. Warm and inviting with a dark and moody color palette, this hand-knotted wool antique Persian Afshar is pois...

21380 vintage Berber Moroccan rug with Modern Monochrome Tribal style 04'11 x 09'04. With its simplicity, plush pile and tribal style, this hand knotted wool vintage Berber Moroccan ...

60945 Antique Persian Azerbaijan Rug, 03'01 x 09'08. Warm and inviting with a bold tribal design with rustic sensibility, this hand-knotted wool antique Persian Azerbaijan runner is ...

21228 Vintage Berber Beni M'Guild Red Moroccan Rug with Tribal Style 07'03 x 15'04. Showcasing a bold expressive design, incredible detail and texture, this hand knotted wool vintage...

21406, vintage Berber Beni Ourain Moroccan rug with Tribal style. With its simplicity, plush pile and tribal style, this hand knotted wool vintage B...

A vintage Turkish flatweave Kilim long and narrow room size carpet in charcoal black, grey, and cream-white, handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 7' 5" x 13' 4".

20866 Vintage Neutral Moroccan Azilal Rug, 02'08 x 06'09. This hand-knotted wool vintage Moroccan Azilal rug is a vibrant testament to the enduring spirit of Berber craftsmanship. Th...

21401 Vintage Berber Beni ourain Moroccan rug with Tribal style 06'07 x 11'10. With its simplicity, plush pile and tribal style, this hand knotted w...

Beautiful Tribal Antique Oversized Persian Bakhtirari Rug, Country of Origin / Rug Type: Persian Rug, Circa Date: Late 19th Century. Size: 15 ft x 30 ft (4.57 m x 9.14 m) A starkly intriguing large oversized tribal design covers the body of this antique Persian rug, featuring tilted diamonds centered with four-petaled flowers. Each of these blossoms, with four large leaves reaching for the compass points, nestles amid a collection of smaller flowers with the same simplified style, solid colors set off by narrow line-work. These diamond medallions form a network over the piece, connected by geometric embellishments in white, yellow and blue over a black background. This beautiful and impressive, antique Persian Bakhtiari rug, features a high contrast between these tones gives the piece a mesmerizing visual appeal, capturing the eye and leading it along angular paths. A set of pale borders encloses this space, the widest backed with the dusky blue and arrayed with exotic blossoms rendered with symmetry and artful, dark line-work. Narrow bars...

20225 Vintage Berber Moroccan runner with muted checkerboard pattern, hallway runner. This hand knotted wool Vintage Berber Moroccan runner featur...

In mint condition, this small hand-knotted Persian carpet measures 2’ x 1’11” and features the inspiring and legendary Persian ruler, Karim Khan Zand. Craft...

A vintage Turkish flat-weave Kilim accent carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 6' 10" x 9' 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...

A vintage Persian Karajeh throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 1' 11" x 2' 10".

A vintage Turkish Anatolian long runner handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 2' 11" x 15' 5".

20320 Vintage Moroccan Azilal Rug, 04'07 x 08'09. Embark on a journey of tribal enchantment with this vibrant Azilal Moroccan rug, meticulously hand-knotted from soft wool. The color...

20368 Vintage Beni Mrirt Moroccan Rug, 05'03 x 08'07. Delve into the captivating allure of this hand-knotted wool vintage Beni Mrirt Moroccan rug, a testament to the artistic legac...

 74792 Vintage Berber Moroccan Rehamna rug with tribal style. Abstract square blocks of color combined with the vibrant color palette form a cohesive composition. This vintage Berber...

A vintage Persian Baluch carpet from the second quarter of the 20th century.

A vintage American flatweave throw rug handmade by the Navajo tribe during the mid-20th century. Measures: 2' 7" x 4' 4".

Antique Caucasian Kazak Sewan Rug, Country of Origin / Rug Type: Caucasian Rug, Circa date: 1850. Size: 5 ft 10 in x 7 ft 6 in (1.78 m x 2.29 m)

Vintage Moroccan flat-weave Kilim rug. Large size vintage Moroccan rug, handwoven by Berber women in Morocco for their own use. This rug was made using flat-weave technique with li...

This is an antique Caucasian Karabagh geometric rug. It is a carpet rug with an excellent color combination and the contrasting gold, purple and ivory colors, look unique on this Ori...

Rustic Red Beautiful Antique Caucasian Soumak Rug, Country of Origin: Caucasus, Circa Date: 1900 – The antique tribal Caucasus rugs have a unique style that makes them stand out amon...

An antique Persian Kurd rug in runner format handmade during the early 20th century with a rustic appeal in khaki green. Measures: 3' 0" x 12' 7".

A vintage Persian Malayer accent rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 4' 0" x 5' 10" 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...

A vintage Turkish Anatolian square room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century with a large scale tribal design over a solid orange background with light and dark striation...

A modern Turkish large room size carpet handmade during the 21st century inspired by Moroccan rugs of the mid-20th century period. Measures: 14' 2" x 18' 8".

This unique modern Kilim rug was woven by hand in early 21st century Afghanistan. The earthy tones and bold patterns revealed in this piece make it the perfect accent rug for any spa...

An antique Persian Bidjar small room size carpet handmade during the early 20th century. Measures: 7' 3" x 11' 9".

A vintage Persian flat-weave tribal Kilim room size accent rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 6' 1" x 9' 7".

A vintage Persian Afshar throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 3' 8" x 4' 10".

A vintage Turkish Anatolian room size accent rug handmade during the mid-20th century with a geometric tribal design. Measures: 7' 1" x 10' 2".

Deep reds have been used as the primary colours into this high-quality handmade carpet Antique Afghan rug, with a highly detailed repeat pattern design that was hand-woven in 1940 with hand-spun, vegetable-dyed wool, and cotton, by some of the finest artisans. Perfect oriental rug for both modern or traditional interiors, bedrooms, living rooms or even entryways, this carpet rug is sure to make a lovely accent piece for any room it is introduced to. The central design is an asymmetrical repeat pattern with the top half woven into a point and diamond. A sub-border outlines the design with a repeat pattern design followed by the main rectangular border revealing intricate square motifs, repeated around the whole edge and a fringed edge on two sides. Quality Antique Rug Afghan...

Rustic Tribal Geometric Antique Caucasian Jewel Tone Karabagh Hallway Runner Rug, Country Of Origin: Caucasus, Circa date: 1920. Size: 3 ft 6 in x 9 ft (1.07 m x 2.74 m)

These handwoven Kilim rugs are antique pieces woven in the 1880s in Azerbaijan Moghan Area. The design features a decorative striped pattern woven with intricate medallions. They featured red, blue cream and beige colours. Woven to perfection, these small oriental antiques are sure to make a beautiful accent in any home. The raw materials used are of the finest quality, with only the best hand-spun wool and cotton, which have been dyed with organic dyeing techniques and delicately woven on looms to create these elegant pieces—constructed with traditional hand-knotting methods which have been used for generations due to the durable rugs the method produces. Place this piece in a classic interior or a sophisticated modern style for an instant uplift. These fine flatwoven wool rugs cannot be used as bedroom rugs, living room rugs, but it is suitable as a wall or table decoration as a rare collectable piece. These pieces are in excellent condition, clean and ready for use in any home or office environment. Pair of...

This antique Kilim has been woven to perfection on looms of master weavers of Caucasia in the 1920s. The design features a repeat motif pattern that has been woven by hand to create ...

This is an antique Caucasian tribal rug from Karabagh. It is a geometric rug with an excellent colour combination and the contrasting go...