Tribal Russian and Scandinavian Rugs

Antique Samarkand Rugs: The desert oasis of Khotan was an important stop on the Silk Road. The people of Khotan were expert carpet weavers who produced high quality antique rugs and ...

Shirvan rugs – The historic Khanate or administrative district of Shirvan produced many highly decorative antique rugs that have a formality and stylistic complexity that is found in...

Antique rugs that are called “Kilim rugs”, primarily refer to a type of flat weave rug that was produced without knotted pile. Because these antique rugs are found across the globe, each region has a different pronunciation and spelling of the name Kilim. Homers Iliad and Egyptian tomb paintings, from the same time period, depict weavers producing rugs and carpets of this kind. Since this is one of the oldest methods of rug production, it is considered to be primitive...

73274, Vintage Turkmen Rug with Modern Tribal Style, Tekke Accent Rug, Turkoman Rug. This hand knotted wool vintage Turkmen rug features three columns of Tekke güls with secondary st...

Antique Uzbek Samarkand Rug 8'4'' X 5'8'', tribal and traditional, antique and vintage, wool on cotton foundation

Up for sale is an Early-19th Century Khotan Samarkand Rug

Antique Uzbek Samarkand Rug 9'7'' X 5'3'', tribal and traditional, antique and vintage, wool on cotton foundation

Hand knotted carpet in Russia in the 19th century. Geometric representation of orange red and brown wood. High quality, beautiful graphics and remarkable finesse. Perfect state of p...

An antique Russian Karabagh rug from the first quarter of the 20th century featuring tones of coral, browns and light purple.

Antique Nomadic Rugs: – To most people the concept of the area rug, especially the pile rug, is virtually synonymous with the Orient, above all P...

Antique Samarkand Rugs: The desert oasis of Khotan was an important stop on the Silk Road. The people of Khotan were expert carpet weavers who produced high quality antique rugs and ...

Hand-knotted in wool, an antique 7 x 9 Soumak rug originating from Russia circa 1920-1930. Joining Rug & Kilim’s Antique & Vintage collection, the piece showcases richness in color w...

60892 Antique Plum Caucasian Tekke Azerbaijan Rug, 05'01 x 08'01. Caucasian Azerbaijan rugs with Tekke elephant foot designs are distinguished by their in...

oumak 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...

Hand-knotted in fine quality wool for textural strength and aesthetic appeal, this 6x10 Yamut relishes the extravagance of suede like tactility that exemplifies the all over geometri...

Antique Samarkand Rugs: The desert oasis of Khotan was an important stop on the Silk Road. The people of Khotan were expert carpet weavers who produced high quality antique rugs and ...

73316, antique Tekke Yomud Yomut Saryk Chuval rug Bag Face. This antique Tekke Yomud Chuval rug bagface features nine large Tschowal güls of the Kizilayak Turk...

Antique Samarkand Rugs: The desert oasis of Khotan was an important stop on the Silk Road. The people of Khotan were expert carpet weavers who produced high quality antique rugs and ...

Persian Gabbeh Rugs – Persian rugs made with extra high pile and very simple, graphic designs focused on the use of color, which can be vibrant or soft and earthy. As pieces made for...

Antique Uzbek Samarkand Rug 9'1'' X 4'10'', tribal and traditional, antique and vintage, wool on cotton foundation

Antique Uzbek Khotan Samarkand Rug 10'7'' X 5'6''. tribal and traditional, antique and vintage, wool on cotton foundation

Ca.1900 Antique Khotan Samarkand Rug 8'10'' X 5'3''

Antique Uzbek Khotan Samarkand Rug 8'10'' X 5'6'', tribal and traditional, antique and vintage, wool on cotton foundation

Antique Samarkand Rugs: The desert oasis of Khotan was an important stop on the Silk Road. The people of Khotan were expert carpet weavers who produced high quality antique rugs and ...

Handwoven in wool from Russia originating between 1920-1930, a 3x7 antique Verneh kilim enjoying an individualistic personality & impeccable artistic inte...

Ca.1900 Authentic Uzbek Samarkand Woolen Rug 8'10'' X 5'8'', tribal and traditional, antique and vintage, very good condition, wool on cotton foundation.

Baluch Rugs – Antique Baluch rugs are a unique phenomenon in the world of antique Oriental rugs. Rather than originating from one specific, easily identified region, Baluch rugs are ...

In this listing you will find an absolutely steiking and very rare vintage Ziegler rug. It features fantastic geometrical patterns with washed out red and blue on beige. Hand knotted...

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...

Antique Samarkand Rugs: The desert oasis of Khotan was an important stop on the Silk Road. The people of Khotan were expert carpet weavers who produced high quality antique rugs and ...

Up for sale is an Antique Khotan Samarkand Rug, from Uzbekistan, circa the 1900s.

A vintage Turkish carpet from the second quarter of the 20th century.

Antique Samarkand Rugs: The desert oasis of Khotan was an important stop on the Silk Road. The people of Khotan were expert carpet weavers who produced high quality antique rugs and ...

Antique Bidjar Rugs Bidjar is a town in Persian Kurdistan located in north-west Persia. The Bidjar name is also used to describe the antique rugs that were produced in the many villa...

Antique Turkish Oushak rugs have been woven in Western Turkey since the beginning of the Ottoman period. Historians attributed to them many of the great masterpieces of early Turkish...

Up for sale is a 1900s Antique Uzbek Khotan Samarkand Rug 5'8'' x 4'1'', tribal and traditional, wool on cotton

Antique Samarkand Rugs: The desert oasis of Khotan was an important stop on the Silk Road. The people of Khotan were expert carpet weavers who produced high quality antique rugs and ...

Antique Samarkand Rugs: The desert oasis of Khotan was an important stop on the Silk Road. The people of Khotan were expert carpet weavers who produced high quality antique rugs and ...

Antique Samarkand Rugs: The desert oasis of Khotan was an important stop on the Silk Road. The people of Khotan were expert carpet weavers who produced high quality antique rugs and ...

60924 Antique Caucasian Azerbaijan Rug, 04'03 x 07'11. Caucasian Azerbaijan rugs are a type of rug originating from the region of Azerbaijan in the Cau...

Antique Uzbek Samarkand Rug 8'10'' X 4'7'', tribal and traditional, antique and vintage, wool on cotton foundation

Ca.1900 Antique Uzbek Samarkand Rug 8'1'' X 4'11''

Hand knotted carpet in Russia at the beginning of the 19th century. Representation of red flowers mainly in the rectangle in the center and the same, larger flowers form the outline....

Antique Samarkand Rugs: The desert oasis of Khotan was an important stop on the Silk Road. The people of Khotan were expert carpet weavers who produced high quality antique rugs and ...

Antique Uzbek Samarkand Rug 8'8'' X 4'10'', tribal and traditional, antique and vintage, wool on cotton foundation

Shahsavan Rugs – Highly unusual and exciting, antique Shahsavan or Shahsevan area rugs and carpets have only recently been recognized as a distinct style of Persian rug. Uniquely, Sh...

Early-19th Century Uzbek Khotan Samarkand Rug 2'3'' X 5'9'', tribal and traditional, wool on cotton foundation, bronze, brown, beige color

Up for sale is an Authentic Khotan Samarkand Rug 6'1'' X 2'6'', tribal and traditional rug and made with wool on cotton foundation back in the early-19th century by tribes from north...

Handwoven in wool, a 6 x 12 antique Russian kilim exemplifying tribal Caucasian aesthetics—now entering Rug & Kilim’s flatweave selections. The deep wine and bordeaux red tones compl...

Antique Samarkand Rug 1900 -8'7'' X 4'8''

Antique Samarkand Rugs: The desert oasis of Khotan was an important stop on the Silk Road. The people of Khotan were expert carpet weavers who produced high quality antique rugs and ...

Up for sale is an antique Samakhand Uzbek rug, circa the 1900s.

Antique Karabagh rugs Eagerly sought after by collectors as well as designers, have one of the oldest and most varied design traditions of any antique Caucasian rugs. Many are descen...

Ca.1900 Authentic Khotan Samarkand Rug 8'10'' X 5'6''

Up for sale is a 1900s Antique Decorative Khotan Samarkand Rug

74375, antique Caucasian Soumak rug with tribal style. Embodying tribal style and nomadic charm with saturated colors, this handwoven wool antique Caucasian Soumak rug is a captivati...

71469 Antique Caucasian Tribal Kurdish Rug, 04'07 x 11'00. Nomadic charm meets boho chic in this hand knotted wool antique Caucasian Kurdish rug. The intrinsic tribal design earthy c...

Antique Caucasian rug. A beautiful antique rug from Azerbeijan. • Beautiful colors • All handmade • Pile pure wool • Traditional Design • Condition: Very good, wool pile on wool wa...