Handmade Antique Caucasian Shirvan Rug, 1880s

Antique handmade Caucasian Gendje rug in good condition. The rug has dark blue field covered in tribal figures. It is surrounded by the white border with tr...

Antique handmade Caucasian Talish rug in good condition. The rug is in navy blue shade for the background with nice white border. It has nice floral design. The condition is good, it...

Antique handmade Caucasian Gendje rug in good condition. The rug has beautiful chocolate brown background covered in colorful flowers. Two borders are surrounding the central area: b...

Antique handmade Caucasian Gendje rug in good condition. The rug is from the end of 19th century, made in Russia. - Condition: good, - circa 1880s, ...

Antique handmade Caucasian Gendje rug in original condition. The rug has navy blue border and all over deign in red shades. It also has tripple border in re...

Antique handmade Caucasian Gendje rug in good condition. The rug has dark blue field covered in tribal figures. It is surrounded by the beige border. The ru...

This antique Caucasian carpet in pure handspun wool and vegetable dyes circa 1880 features a multi-layered central medallion with multiple borders and an overall geometric design and...

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...

Antique Caucasian Shirvan rug, circa 1880. The field of soft blues with three central motifs all filled with floral and ethnic designs and enclosed within the typical Caucasian multi...

A Shirvan handwoven Caucasian rug, circa 1880. These types of antique Caucasian rugs were woven in the eastern part of the region, mostly along the west coast of the Caspian Sea and ...

Antique Caucasian Shirvan rug, circa 1880. These types of antique Caucasian rugs were woven in the eastern part of the region, mostly along the west coast of the Caspian sea and show...

Antique Caucasian Shirvan rug, circa 1880. The navy field divided into diamonds enclosing flower heads within traditional Shirvan multiple borders framing the rug. These types of ant...