Antique Caucasian Cabestan Geometric Rug, circa 1900s-1910s

This is a lovely antique Caucasian Cabestan geometric rug, circa 1900s-1910s, hand knotted in Russia and measures: 3.9 x 4.10 ft.

This lovely antique Caucasian Kazak carpet measures 4.9 x 7.3 ft and is from circa 1900s-1910s.  

Baluch carpets are handmade carpets originally made by Baluch nomads, living near the border between Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan. The carpets are often small with lively patterns,...

This lovely antique Caucasian Kazak carpet measures 4.4 x 7.10 ft. and is from circa 1900s-1910s.  

The old province of Karabagh lies to the north of the Aras River, just north of the present Iranian border. Karabagh rugs are known for their exceptional quality and highly desired d...

Kilim, a word of Turkish origin, denotes a pileless textile of many uses produced by one of several flat-weaving techniques that have a common or closely related heritage and are practiced in the geographical area that includes parts of Turkey (Anatolia and Thrace), North Africa, the Balkans, the Caucasus, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Central Asia and China. Kilims are generally woven with the slitweave technique. The slit refers to the gap left between two blocks of color. It is created by returning the weft around the last warp in a color area, and the weft of the adjacent color is later returned around the adjacent warp. The major difference between a kilim area rug and a carpet or a pile rug is that whereas the design visible on a pile rug is made by individual short strands of different color being knotted onto the warps and held together by pressing the wefts tightly, kilim designs are made by interweaving the variously colored wefts and warps, thus creating what is known as a flat-weave. Weavers pack the weft tightly to completely cover the warp and often favor diagonal patterns so as to avoid weakening the structure of the rug with vertical slits. It produces bold, sharp patterns that weavers enjoy creating with more freedom allowed than a plainweave. This is also why kilims are so closely associated with geometrical designs even though there are kilims with floral designs as well. This lovely antique Shirvan Caucasian Kilim...

This relatively coarsely knotted long scatter displays a dark blue field with seven rectangular red floating panels enclosing radiating leaves and cross motives in ivory, and green. ...

On a navy to black ground, the notched and pointed crimson sub field displays a navy or black cartouche with six Memling guls accented in straw, ivory, red and black. Four more Memli...

Although coarse like a typical Caucasian Kazak, the design is derived from east Caucasian Shirvan rugs with its elongated head and foot panel enclosing octogons in ivory and straw. The abrashed teal ground is particularly attractive and is adorned with stars-in-octagons, animals and nested boxes...

The abrashed light bluish graphite ground of this south Caucasian scatter featuresa Herati pattern accented in red and ivory, within a pale gre-greenborder with large, trailing semi-realistic flowers...

This south Caucasian long rug retains the characteristic dark blue field with its geometric rendering of the Persian Mina Khani rosette trellis design, set within a red crab palmette...

From the border area between Persia and the Caucasus, this geometric gallery carpet features four eight-lobed, connected medallions in sand and straw on an abrashed red-brown ground,...