North and South American Rugs

Niwa is a collection of minimal and organic modular rugs. Each module can be combined with others in endless ways to create customizable configurations. This collection is a repres...

Niwa is a collection of minimal and organic modular rugs. Each module can be combined with others in endless ways to create customizable configurations. This collection is a repres...

Niwa is a collection of minimal and organic modular rugs. Each module can be combined with others in endless ways to create customizable configurations. This collection is a repres...

Niwa is a collection of minimal and organic modular rugs. Each module can be combined with others in endless ways to create customizable configurations. This collection is a repres...

Niwa is a collection of minimal and organic modular rugs. Each module can be combined with others in endless ways to create customizable configurations. This collection is a repres...

Niwa is a collection of minimal and organic modular rugs. Each module can be combined with others in endless ways to create customizable configurations. This collection is a repres...

Niwa is a collection of minimal and organic modular rugs. Each module can be combined with others in endless ways to create customizable configurations. This collection is a repres...

Niwa is a collection of minimal and organic modular rugs. Each module can be combined with others in endless ways to create customizable configurations. This collection is a repres...

Niwa is a collection of minimal and organic modular rugs. Each module can be combined with others in endless ways to create customizable configurations. This collection is a repres...

Niwa is a collection of minimal and organic modular rugs. Each module can be combined with others in endless ways to create customizable configurations. This collection is a repres...

A gorgeous Royal Ashan Oriental style wool area rug USA, mid-20th century Beautiful floral design, with predominant colors in red, blue, and gold. Measures: 55" x 77" Goo...

A vintage American rag rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 3' 6" x 5' 8" North American rugs & carpets: North American has never developed a unified handmade rug tradition, but rather it is the unassimilated confluence of several. From Mexico comes the Saltillo serape wearing blanket, and this stimulates the Navajo and Rio Grande (Colorado) weavers, first as blankets, then as rugs. The thrifty habits of rural America gave rise to the New England (and Western Canadian) hooked rug types, while the farmers of the Midwest recycled their disused garments into braided and rag rugs. The closest to a real ongoing tradition are the Southwestern (New Mexican) Navajo rugs. By the 1860s the native tribes were weaving wearing blankets with wool from the Spanish churro sheep. These were in stripe design, with combinations of undyed wool with cochineal reds and indigo blues. The multi-phase “Chief’s Blankets” from the 1870s-80s are a natural outgrowth of these. Machine spun red wool from Germantown in Pennsylvania appeared in the 1870s with a bright red hitherto unobtainable. The weavers loved it and blankets appeared with bright reds, generally aniline, in “eye dazzler” patterns. Anglo traders established posts beginning in the 1890s. Navajo weavings were perfect accompaniments not only for Western-themed decors, but for East Coast apartments, only they needed to be thicker and more rug like to be truly accepted. The traders brought Caucasian and Turkish village rugs to copy, borders were introduced and central medallions devised. The weavers continued to create on vertical looms, with a shared warp (dovetailing) weft structure to avoid slits. The warps were cotton string. Sizes were generally scatters, but occasionally a special order came in, hence antique room size Navajos are very rare and very pricey. Distinct village/pueblo styles developed. Among the best are: Two Grey Hills (considered the tightest, closest of all Navajo weaving), Crystal Springs, and Ganado. Certain new patterns such as the “Storm pattern” with jagged lightning bolts emanating from a dark cloud developed. The Yei rug with dancing Kachina doll figures became popular. The palette has been expanded beyond the classic grey, tan, dark brown, and cream natural wool combination to again include reds, blues, and greens. Navajo pictorials include American flags, trains, and automobiles, domestic and local scenes and scenery. Individual artist weavers now command gallery shows and correspondingly elevated prices. There are several levels of Navajo work, and antique and vintage scatters with simple flat designs, medium weaves, and tritonal palettes, and in good floor worthy condition are still available reasonably. The Native American weaving tradition extends into Colorado with two-piece scatters with sharp sawtooth medallions and striped end borders, with wool tapestry weave on cotton warps. These descend from the Saltillo blankets...

Tuna rug by Lilia Cruz Corona Garduño Series: White Dimensions: 7.6'' x 5.6" Materials: 100% New Zealand, Cotton Mesh Other sizes available. Platal...

Traditional Moroccan rag rugs inspire the Doukkala Collection. Hand knotted out of wool, the pile is hand-shorn to create an irregularity in the look, forming a thick, almost cloud-l...

Oval shape American Hooked rug with large flower design, rug S12-1206, country of origin / type: United States / Hooked, circa 1950 This colorful American Hooked rug depicts a var...

Inspired by graffiti, this rug collection is designed with simple and well-defined features, expressive lines and details that suggest light, shadow and depth. The manufacturing tec...

Inspired by graffiti, this rug collection is designed with simple and well-defined features, expressive lines and details that suggest light, shadow and depth. The manufacturing tec...

Inspired by graffiti, this rug collection is designed with simple and well-defined features, expressive lines and details that suggest light, shadow and depth. The manufacturing tec...

Antique Rag rug. Size: 2'0" x 37'0".

Antique American hooked rug, size: 1'9" x 3'0".

Late 19th Century American Ingrain Carpet ( 10'6" x 10'6" - 320 x 320 )

This abstract rug is made by master weaver Roman Gutierrez in Oaxaca, Mexico. Red wine, fuchsia and colors are light mustard tonalities are portrayed in this modern Zapotec rug...

Antique American Hooked rug. Size: 2'5" x 3'5".

1930s American Navajo Carpet ( 4'5" x 6'2" - 135 x 88 )

Mid 20th Century American Navajo Rug ( 2'2" x 2'10" - 66 x 86 )

1930s American Navajo Ganado Carpet Carpet ( 5' x 7'5" - 152 x 226 )

Castelluxe pink, grey, hair on hide rug. 8 x 10. Interlace design.

The Greek key border is executed in red and charcoal grey, and merges neatly into the well-abrashed mid-grey ground. The central vibrating pole medallion of three joined, lightning-f...

This piece has a heavy thick weave and would lay on the floor better than most.