Antique tribal chanteh with plain weave back, by the Afshar Tribe., circa 1900.

Antique tribal chanteh face by the Afshar tribe, chanteh are small vanity bags used for the storage of personal belongings. A small tribal chanteh bag fac...

Size: 6ft 9in x 4ft 8in (206 x 141cm). Antique Abedeh rug with the tribal medallion design. Circa 1900/20. The rug is of a traditional tribal design with a small central medallion...

Antique tribal Luri bag face with very rustic charm. The bag face is drawn with a central medallion containing stars, surrounded by an indigo blue field with two little animals and ...

Size: 7ft 9in x 4ft 11in (237 x 149cm). Antique Qashqai tribal rug with small central medallion. Circa 1890. An outstanding Qashqai tribal rug with a small central medallion of a ...

An early 20th century Persian Tribal Afshar rug Measures: 4'3" x 5'8" High-quality antique Afshar rugs display deeply saturated dyeing techniques, and they almost always sparkle from the lanolin-rich wool culled from their own flocks. Typically, Afshar rugs were finished at either end with an intricate flatweave and the sides with multi-colored selvage. A majority of their weavings are found in area sizes between 3ft x 5ft and 4ft x 7ft; however, they also wove 5ft x 10ft, small bags...

Antique Persian Afshar rug. Finely hand-knotted with even medium wool pile on wool foundation. Excellent original condition. Sturdy and as clean as a brand new rug (deep washed prof...

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...

78952 Antique Caucasian Shirvan Kilim Rug, 06'07 x 08'06. This handwoven wool antique Caucasian Shirvan kilim rug, crafted in the southern Caucasus during the late 19th century, is a...