1980s Caucasian Rugs

Important and unique large handstitched carpet designed by Arazzi Missoni in cooperation with Saporiti Italia, circa 1980s. Like a patchwork carpet this stunning piece is a combination of traditional craftmenship and modern design. Knitted Missoni wool stripe pieces have been put together to squares and handstitched on a fabric to create this large unique art piece which reminds in some way to paintings of Gerhard Richter. The colorful carpet is 284 x 245 cm / 111.81 x 96.46 inches tall and wide and stays after years in very good original vintage condition. Labeled three times Arazzi, Missoni, every piece is unique and not repeatable, Made in Italy and Saporiti, Italia. This exclusive and unique carpet has been a gift from the Italian Embassy, given to a german Lady...

Nice late 19th century Shirvan rug with a Perepedil design and natural colors with green, blue and orange, entirely hand knotted with wool velvet on wool foundation.

Kazak rugs have primarily been produced as village productions rather than city pieces. Made from materials particular to individual tribal provinces and the rugs of the Caucasus typically display bold geometric designs in primary colours. Kazak rugs are a type of Armenian rug...

Shirvan rug, floor covering handmade in the Shirvan region of Azerbaijan in the southeastern Caucasus. With the exception of a group of rugs woven in the vicinity of Baku, most Shirv...

1980s Gorgeous geometric woolen rug by Ottavio Missoni, called "Luxor".Made in Italy. It's in excellent condition and is a true example of amazing Italian design. It's signed Missoni...

Vintage Missoni rug made of pure virgin wool with geometric patterns forming squares in bright and warm colors. It is an object of high quality and refinement, ideal for giving elega...

Beautiful fine shirvan Chichi of Caucasus late 19th century with a geometrical design and beautiful natural colors with blue, green, pink yellow and purple, entirely and finely hand ...

This is a Caucasian Old Kilim from the Kuba region with a red background and beautiful color composition. Kilim of Kuba, a city in Azerbaijan. It is located by the Caspian Sea, ne...

1980s Gorgeous rug by Missoni for T&J Vestor. Pure wool Made in Italy. In excellent condition like new. Signed at the bottom. This rug is a true example of amazing Italian design. Di...

Carpet from the Missoni HOME collection that in the eighties was produced by T&J Vestor which is located in the factories of Golasecca (Varese) on the banks of Ticino, where it was f...

This stunning vintage Missoni rug by T & J Vestor is made from the finest pure virgin wool and it has the most wonderful green and purple hues. Measuring 204 x 193 cm it is a really ...

There has long been a fascination with the symbolism of the dragon and its depiction in carpet weavings. The design of ‘Dragon’ carpets consists of a field pattern composed of different colored overlaid lattices formed of pointed, serrated leaves creating intersecting lozenges, which alternately contain palmettes and are flanked by confronting stylized dragons, birds, or animal figures. The most archaic of the ‘Dragon’ carpets include dragon motifs with birds and running animals relatively naturalistically drawn, which stand either alone or in confronting pairs facing a tree. The Graf carpet, originally found in a Damascene mosque, now in the Islamiches Museum, Berlin, is considered to be the oldest example of this type, see Serare Yetkin, Early Caucasian Carpets in Turkey, Vol. II, London, 1978, p.8, fig.118. Yetkin defines four types of ‘Dragon’ carpet: ‘Archaic’, ‘Four-Dragon’, ‘Dragon-and-Phoenix’ and as a further combined development of the latter, the ‘Two-Dragon’ style, of which the present carpet falls into the ‘Dragon-and-Phoenix group along with other examples, some of which include two fragments, one in the Museum fur Kunst und Gerwerbe, Hamburg; another in the Christian Museum, Esztergom, Hungary, a complete carpet in the Kier collection; an incomplete example in the Textile Museum, Washington, D.C; the ‘Cassirer’ Dragon carpet in the Thyssen-Bornemisza collection, Lugano; the Ali Pasa Mosque carpet in Tokat, and a further example in the Vakiflar Hali Museum, Istanbul (S. Yetkin, op. cit. pp.16-20). It has been suggested that the earliest examples of the Caucasian ‘Dragon’ carpets...