Antique Native American Navajo Large Geometric Grey Ivory Rug, circa 1920s-1930s

From the inception of weaving by the Navajos, circa 1700, weaving has provided an important economic benefit to the tribe and a fine outlet for their artistic talents. Navajo textile...

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 Eastern European Kilim...

Kilim, a word of Turkish origin, denotes a pile less textile of many uses produced by one of several flat-weaving techniques that have a common or closely related heritage and are pr...

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 pra...

Antique Navajo rug with an oatmeal colored field, size 5'4" x 7'10". A stepped, angular cream meander on light camel frames the oatmeal field with an emphatic nested, stepped and ho...

1930s American Navajo Two Grey Hills Carpet ( 2'4" x 4'3" - 72 x 130 )

Early 20th Century American Navajo Two Grey Hills Carpet ( 4' x 7' - 122 x 213 )

This large vintage Navajo area rug, handwoven in the 1930s by a skilled Diné (Navajo) weaver, originates from the historic Hubbell Trading Post in...