Silk Rugs and Carpets

A Tabriz rug/carpet is a type in the general category of Persian carpets from the city of Tabriz, the capital city of East Azarbaijan Province in north west of Iran totally populated...

Various birds flutter among the stems, branches, flowers and foliage of the swaying composite trees on the sand ground of this finely woven, recent city piece. The trees grow from lo...

Qum Rug Qom Rug Ghom Rug Hand-knotted Rug 5.2 x 3.6 ft / 155 x 108 cm A very fine Qum silk carpet Technique: hand knotted Pile material: Silk Warp: Silk Quality: very fine knotte...

This captivating rug, crafted in the 1970s, seamlessly blends tradition and opulence. Here are the key features that make it a true work of art: Materials: Wool Base: The rug is met...

This captivating rug, crafted in the 1970s, seamlessly blends tradition and opulence. Here are the key features that make it a true work of art: Materials: 50 Raj Tabriz rug. Wool B...

This Handmade Vintage Chinese Art Deco Silk Rug from the 1970s is a delightful piece of craftsmanship. Measuring 1.4’ x 3’ (45cm x 92cm), it exudes elega...

This Handmade Vintage Chinese Art Deco Silk Rug from the 1970s is a delightful piece of craftsmanship. Measuring 1.4’ x 3’ (45cm x 92cm), it exudes elega...

This Handmade Vintage Persian Style Gabbeh Rug from the 1970s is a delightful piece of craftsmanship. Measuring 4.1’ x 6.9’ (128cm x 211cm), it exudes elegance and cultural flair. Le...

Handmade Vintage Tunisian Silk Rug from the 1970s. This splendid piece of artistry measures 1.6 feet by 3.7 feet and exudes timeless elegance. Product Description: Design & Patterns...

This is a very fine rug weaved in city of Qum, Iran. This rug has silk pile and foundation, with a stunning design and color combination woven onto a dark blue background with a turq...

Isfahan Persian carpet 400 X 260 cm million knots per m2 Hand-knotted Persian carpet in top quality with a weave density of 1,000,000 knots per m2. Cork wool on a silk warp. A colle...

Handmade Vintage Persian Style Qum Silk Rug Elevate your decor with the timeless allure of our Handmade Vintage Persian Style Qum Silk Rug. Crafted in the 1970s, this exquisite piece...

Add a touch of timeless elegance to your home with this Handmade Vintage Persian Style Qum Silk Rug. This exquisite piece from the 1970s is in good condition, showcasing the intricat...

Experience the elegance and craftsmanship of this Handmade Vintage Turkish Hereke Silk Rug. This rug was made in the 1970s, using high-quality silk material that is smooth and luxuri...

This is a very fine rug weaved in city of Qum, Iran. This rug has silk pile and foundation, with a stunning design and color combination woven onto an orange red background with a da...

This Tabriz rug boasts a unique and luxurious construction, with a fork pile and a silk foundation, creating an exquisite blend of textures and durability. The contrast between the s...

This authentic Persian Qum rug has silk pile and silk foundation. The color combination in this rug is outstanding. The base color is cream and the border is black. The design in thi...

Özipek war der bedeutendste Hersteller von handgeknüpften Hereke Seiden Teppichen. Das hier gezeigte Exemplar ist besonders fein geknüpft und hat auf den qm 1.4 Mio Knoten. Die Herst...

Elevate your decor with our Handmade Vintage Turkish Keyseri Silk Rug from the 1970s. Measuring 2.8' x 7', this rug is a masterpiece of artistry and craftsmanship, showcasing the int...

Elevate the charm of your living space with this Handmade Vintage Persian Style Tabriz Rug with Silk. Crafted in the 1970s, this small mat measuring 2.3' x 2.4' is a delightful addit...

Elevate your living space with the timeless elegance of this Handmade Vintage 50 Raj Persian Style Tabriz Silk Rug. Crafted in the 1970s, this 8' x 11.8' rug combines wool with silk ...

Vintage 1980s Silk Chinese Art Deco Style Silk Carpet ( 6'2" x 9' - 188 x 275 )

Soumak rugs (also spelled Sumak) – This construction technique produces a flat-weave rug that is thick, strong and exceptionally durable. Unlike kilims, Soumak rugs are not reversible because non-clipped yarns are left on the back. However, they are also stronger than kilims. Antique Soumak carpets are unique because the wefts are used to produce decorative patterns rather than as a structural element. Antique Soumak rugs are generally very finely woven and feature richly detailed motifs. Traditionally, these spectacular flat-weave carpets are decorated with ancient symbols, tiny birds and geometric animals. Many of these geometric patterns and tribal symbols are associated with the Shahsavan tribe. In the 17th century, these influential warriors served as the personal bodyguards to Shah Abbas according to historic legends. The Shahsavan, who used Soumak weaving techniques widely, inhabited modern-day Azerbaijan and parts of Northwest Persia near Ardabil. Because Soumak rugs were woven in various carpet producing regions, the designs they feature are exceptionally diverse. Although they are fairly rare compared to pile carpets and traditional kilims, antique Soumak rugs feature grand medallions, finely executed repeating patterns, Persian garden designs and tribal motifs that are surrounded by multiple sets of richly detailed borders. Antique Soumak rugs make outstanding floor coverings, but the technique was also used to construct bags, trappings, saddle covers, decorative bed spreads and functional household items. Like other regional handicrafts, antique Soumak rugs are highly decorative and diverse textile pieces that flatter modern furnishings and soften minimalist interiors very well. Soumak or Sumak is a type of brocading or flat-woven pile. Thicker than a kilim carpet, it is accomplished by looping the yarn horizontally around successive pairs of warps in between passes of over-under wefting. When compressed vertically with a weaver’s comb, the resultant texture looks like cabling rising slightly from the surface of the rug. Soumak is named for the village of Shemaka in the Caucasus where this technique was widely practiced, but it certainly was not invented there. Soumak has been practiced extensively across the antique rug producing world, from Central Asia to Iran, the Caucasus, and Turkey. Antique Soumak Weave Techniques: Soumak Weave – The art of fine rug weaving and making is ancient and complex. Over the centuries, a myriad of disparate cultures, from every corner of the globe, have developed methods of creating tight, long-lasting weaves, such as rugs, carpets, and kilims. As such, there is no singular, universal method for creating a fine weave; rather, there are several different, totally distinctive weaving techniques. These techniques and approaches have been developed over time and that are unique to the area, tribe and or people. One specific example of a type of weave that was developed and is still used to this day is the Soumak weave. The widespread adaptation of the Soumak weave by such a wide range of different rug-producing cultures is certainly a rather strong testament to the quality and “reproducibility” of the process — cornerstones of any long-lasted artistic technique. One of the most familiar types of antique weaving from the Caucasus region is the Soumak. These were produced in a wide array of designs, but generally they are typified by a crisp, precise drawing applied to highly abstract or stylized geometric patterns, using a rich and varied palette. In technical terms, Soumaks are flatwoven rugs. Their technique is related to that of kilims, but it is somewhat more complex, thicker in handle, and more durable as floor covering. As opposed to Kilim technique which consists of compacted weft facing simply running over and under the vertical wraps, Soumak weave runs the yarns around the warps in a serpentine pattern, over two, back one, over two back one, and so forth. The rows of this yarn facing or brocading are then separated by wefts like the rows of knots in pile carpets. The origin of this technique is hard to pinpoint, but it is attested literally from one end of the rug-producing world to the other. The term Soumak is apparently a corruption of the name Shemaka, a town in the Shirvan region of the Caucasus, where such rugs, it is often claimed, were made. However Soumaks were made in various areas of the Caucasus and the region north of Kuba seems to have been a major center of their production. Caucasian Soumaks have a very interesting design repertory, with a number of distinct types or groups. From the perspective of carpet history, the most interesting group is the one that utilizes field designs of large polygonal medallions, often in the shape of diamonds or stars. These tend to be modeled on early Turkish pile carpets, especially those of the so-called “small pattern Holbein” and “large pattern Holbein” types produced in Western Turkey during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. A key feature of the Holbein rugs is the use of small squares with horn-like hooked pairs as fillers in the indentations along the edge of the main medallions. Caucasian Soumaks of this type reproduce even these details with remarkable consistency and fidelity. The various smaller motifs used as space fillers seem to come from the common tribal repertory behind most Caucasian and Turkish rugs. The borders of Caucasian Soumaks tend to be made up of small geometric medallions or stylized rosettes, although they can be surprising, as on the example shown here which is adapted from kilim designs. A second major group of Caucasian Soumaks have allover field designs made up of smaller medallions arranged closely in staggered repetition. Some of these which have multi-pointed star-like configuration (the so-called Crivelli-Star) also come from the repertory of early Turkish rugs. But the oval medallions with undulating edges are floral palmettes of classical Persian derivation. Despite the varied origins of the design elements, the Soumaks of this group still convey considerable stylistic homogeneity or integrity. The borders of this second group are much the same as those of the first, although the example shown here has a highly unusual border that derives once again from early Turkish rugs. A third group of Caucasian Soumaks stems from more local traditions. Known as “Dragon Soumaks...

This authentic Persian round hand-made Nain 9 LAA has high quality wool and silk pile with cotton foundation, which silk highlights the detail in the design and it has signed by Habi...

Hand-Knotted wool and silk pile on silk foundation. Circa 1970 Signed Dimensions: 4'11" x 7'7" Origin: Iran Condition: Excellent Field Color: Ivory Border Color: Light-Brown ...

Hand-knotted wool and silk pile on a cotton foundation. Circa 1970 Dimensions: 8'8" x 13'1" Origin: Iran Condition: Excellent Field Color: Multicolor Accent Colors: Ivory, Gr...

Hand-Knotted silk pile on silk foundation. (Over 700 KPSI) Circa 1970 Signed Dimensions: 9'7" x 13' Origin: Iran Condition: Excellent Field Color: Midnight-Blue Border Color: ...

Hand-Knotted wool and silk pile on silk foundation. Circa 1970 Signed Dimensions: 6'6" x 8'3" Origin: Iran Condition: Excellent Field Color: Black Border Color: Ivory Accent ...

Hand-Knotted silk pile on silk foundation. (Over 700 KPSI) Circa 1970 Signed Dimensions: 6'7" x 8'3" Origin: Iran Condition: Excellent Field Color: Blue Border Color: Light-Br...

Rug Number 18594 Size 9' 11" X 12' 11" Design Tabriz Collection Antique/Vintage, Fine Persian Material Wool & Silk Texture Pile Weave Origin Iran Age Antique/Vintage

This authentic Persian round hand-made Nain 9 LAA has high quality wool and silk pile with cotton foundation. (Each thread of the warp is made up of three threa...

Introducing a stunning vintage Persian Tabriz rug from the 1970s! This exquisite rug features a round shape with a diameter of 6.5 feet (200cm), making it a perfect centerpiece for a...

Vintage Qum Rug 6'5'' x 9'10''. An elaborately and perfectly executed, finely woven, Central Persian urban carpet, with a signature along one plain out...

Vintage Qum Rug 3'2'' x 5'2''. This extremely fine, silk foundation, central Persian city scatter shows an unusual dark blue ground very closely patter...

Vintage Chinese Silk Rug 2'3'' x 4'7''.

Vintage Isfahan Rug 5'1'' x 7'7''. Two identical trees swerve and bend in an imaginary breeze up the straw-sand field of this urban, finely woven ...

The handmade carpet manufacturing of these masterpieces' luxury rugs began in late the 19th century. This oriental rug was woven in Asian Anatolia, Turkey in the historic city of Hereke. In the mid-19th century, Sultan Abdul Majid proclaimed Hereke to be the royal weaving village. The silk rugs woven there were considered the finest in the world. All examples used select Borsa silk which is the finest quality carpet silk. The Sultan required that all of the silk rugs woven in Hereke had to be signed with the name Hereke. These carpets were regularly woven for the aristocracy in Europe, Asia, and The Middle East. The design of this rug is unique because it is an interpretation of the famous 17th century Mughal carpet from India. The Mughal carpet was exhibited in the Metropolitan Museum and was illustrated in the book called Flowers Under Foot...

Vintage Tabriz Rug 6'7'' x 10'2''. Elaboration knows no bounds on this very finely woven, NW Persian urban carpet with an eggshell Sub-field hosting myriads of racemes, vinery segmen...

Vintage Qum Rug 1'10'' x 2'10''.

Vintage Tabriz rug 2'9'' x 7'8''. The wool pile is accented in silk. The off white field shows a small octilobe medallion organizing racemes, palmet...

Extremely Fine Vintage Persian Tabriz Wool & Silk 70 Raj Rug 2'9'' x 6'4''.

Vintage Tabriz rug 4'9'' x 5'.

Vintage Qum rug 2'4'' x 2'9''. This finely constructed, short-warp city piece shows a navy, pendanted elliptical medallion with a straw acanthus edge, ...

Vintage Isfahan Rug 5'1'' x 7'6''. Not the classic medallion Isfahan's from Central Persia, but as textile-inspired, finely woven, top condition p...

Vintage Bidjar rug 3'3'' x 3'3''. Round or oval rugs are woven on regular square or rectangular looms.. This well-woven example shows an eight-point...

Qum rug, measures : 1'10'' x 2'10''. This extremely fine silk mat shows a banded red field with rose and floret trails, all supporting a navy pointed medallio...

Extremely Fine Turkish Silk Hereke Rug 2'10'' x 4'7''.

Vintage Tabriz Rug 3'4'' x 5'3''.

Fine natural silk handmade rug bird area rug signed high kpsi quality rug ivory. Measures: 3'4" X 5' 6" (4 x 6) 102cm x 168cm "This is a spectacular and rare Exceptionally fin...

Vintage Indian Cashmere Runner 2.7'' x 14.10''. The sandy ecru field shows a hexagonal leaf lattice whose cells enclose sunflowers in two colorways, with doubled boteh-leaves, in a o...

Extremely Fine Turkish Silk Hereke. Oval Rug 4'10'' x 7'11''.

Extremely fine Persian Tabriz 70 Raj. Wool and Silk with a Silk Foundation Runner 2'9'' x 12'9''. This extremely fine, modern Kenare (runner) shows a cream field in three connected r...

Vintage Tabriz rug mesures 5' x 6'. Tabriz is 30 miles down the road from the rural Heriz weaving area and influences have easily travelled in both dire...

Handmade vintage Turkish Hereke rug made in natural silk and prayer design. The rug is from the middle of 20th century in original good condition. -Condition: original good, -c...

Hand-knotted silk pile on a cotton foundation. Signed by weaver. Dimensions: 6'6" x 9'11" Origin: Iran Condition: Excellent Field color: Khaki Border color: Khaki ...

A beautiful Persian Nain room-size rug in a very rare French blue color and cream colors with silk highlights from the 3rd quarter of the 1900s. The Nain rug has a beautiful central medallion set in a French blue field with designs in caramel, cream and red colors. The corner spandrels are in cream color with floral designs in blue. It has a cream-colored border which provides balance to the field colors. The design of the Nain rug is reminiscent of the beautiful stained glass windows in the great cathedrals of Europe such as the Notre Dame and Chartres in France. The use of floral patterns in the field with silk highlights makes for a great design. Dimensions: 5’ 7” x 9’ Date of Manufacture: 3rd Quarter of the 1900s Place of Origin: Persia Material: Wool pile on a cotton foundation with silk highlights Condition: Excellent At The Persian Knot Gallery, we are committed to the earth’s environment and its sustainability. Since return shipping would add to the climate impact, we would like to minimize any need for returns. To accomplish this, we encourage our clients to contact us and ask for more information, photos and videos before purchasing an item so when they receive it they are totally delighted with their purchase. This does not in any way affect your rights under our terms and conditions to return items - but may help the planet. #Nain Floral Carpets #Nain Habibian #Habibian Nain Carpets...

Exceptionally Fine Rare Natural Silk Rug Black. Measures: 9.4" X 12.2". "This is a spectacular and rare Exceptionally fine pure Natural silk rug with a silk foundation. It is a true work of art. It is an exceptionally fine piece with extraordinary artistic floral design- Collector quality!". Making a rug of this quality, takes about a year of intricate work and can only be done by a true master weaver. This rug can be used as a wall hanging or it can be used on the floor to be used in any traffic area". "True artisan work, Long term investment quality"-Antique Rug Collection...

Hand-knotted wool and silk pile on a cotton foundation Approximately 600 KPSI Dimensions: 5' 10" x 8' 10" Origin: Iran Condition: Excellent Field Color: Ivory Borde...