Rustic Rugs and Carpets

A French rustic hunting tapestry from the 17th century, with a couple catching an elusive boar in the foreground, a cottage in the middle distance at ...

An antique Persian Heriz throw rug handmade during the early 20th century. Measures: 3' 1" x 5' 9".

51925 Distressed Vintage Turkish Sivas Rug, 03'07 x 06'04. Named in honor of the celebrated Turkish vocalist, Zeki Müren, Zeki Muren Turkish Sivas rugs hail from the Sivas region of Turkey. These rugs are revered for their exquisite craftsmanship, boasting intricate designs and vibrant color schemes often adorned with geometric patterns, floral motifs, and detailed borders. Crafted from locally-sourced wool and dyed with natural pigments, they stand as a tribute to the rich cultural heritage and artistic legacy of the region. Zeki Müren's association with luxury and sophistication has heightened the desirability of these rugs, making them highly coveted for their aesthetic allure, enduring quality, and cultural significance within the realms of interior design and carpet collection. Infusing the essence of French Provincial charm, this hand-knotted wool distressed vintage Turkish Sivas rug epitomizes the allure of French Country Cottage style. Adorned with a timeless floral motif and imbued with traditional sensibility, the rug boasts a lovingly timeworn patina that adds to its rustic elegance. Across the weathered field, large cabbage rose motifs dance upon an abrashed striped checkerboard backdrop, creating a picturesque scene reminiscent of idyllic countryside landscapes. Drawing inspiration from European designs, such as those found in the Savonnerie rug workshops of France, this vintage Turkish rug pays homage to the intricate craftsmanship and naturalistic beauty of French floral motifs. The painterly appearance of the rose bouquets, with their well-defined petals and leaves, evokes a sense of timeless romance and sophistication. Meanwhile, the alternating vertically and horizontally striped squares within the field impart a striking optical effect, akin to antique parquet...

A vintage Persian Malayer throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 3' 8" x 4' 11".

A vintage Persian Malayer throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 3' 7" x 5' 1".

A vintage Persian Malayer throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 3' 7" x 5' 2".

73282, rustic style antique Persian Bakhtiari rug with Four Seasons Garden design. Traditional colors integrated with an intimate patina, this antique Persian Bakhtiari rug features ...

An antique Persian Wagireh (Sampler) Mahal throw rug handmade during the early 20th century. This charming ruglet was originally used as a visual sampler to weave larger carpets. Measures: 3' 9" x 4' 10" Persian Rugs...

A vintage Persian Heriz square room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 12' 0" x 12' 7" Persian rugs & carpets: Persia (Iran) is a moderately large cou...

A vintage Persian Hamadan throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 3' 1" x 6' 9".

A vintage Persian Heriz small room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 7' 8" x 10' 11".

A high Decorative Khotan Gallery size rug with a pomegranate motif on a gray field. Overall even medium pile condition circa 1920, measures: 6'7" x 1...

An antique Persian Heriz room size carpet in square format handmade during the early 20th century. Measures: 12' 6" x 14' 0".

An antique Persian Malayer rug in runner format handmade during the early 20th century. Measures: 2' 9" x 9' 9" Persian rugs & carpets: Persia (Iran) is a moderately large cou...

An antique Persian Heriz room size carpet handmade during the early 20th century. Measures: 7' 7" x 11' 3".

A vintage Persian Hamadan accent rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 3' 5" x 6' 8" Persian rugs & carpets: Persia (Iran) is a moderately large country with a v...

An antique Northwest Persian accent rug handmade during the early 20th century. Measures: 4' 5" x 5' 7".

A vintage Persian Mahal accent carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 5' 11" x 10' 2" Persian rugs & carpets: Persia (Iran) is a moderately large country with ...

A vintage Persian Malayer throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 3' 6" x 5' 2".

A vintage Persian Mahal throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 2' 5" x 3' 5".

An antique Persian Kurd rug in runner format handmade during the early 20th century. Measures: 2' 10" x 8' 11" Persian Rugs & Carpets: Persia (Iran) is a moderately large coun...

A vintage Persian Mahal throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 2' 5" x 4' 10".

A vintage Turkish Anatolian throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 3' 6" x 4' 11" Turkish Rugs & Carpets: Until the Great Persian Carpet Revival in the later 19th century, the “Oriental rug” was Turkish. For nearly six centuries, Turkish rugs, both scatter, room size, and even larger, thoroughly dominated the European import market. Whereas the Persian carpet can be divided into urban, village, and tribal types, in Turkey and its predecessor the Ottoman Empire, rugs almost exclusively came from village weavers and from a small number of urban workshops. Ninety percent village, nine percent city, one percent tribal. Turkish weavers have, with very few exceptions, always worked with the symmetric (Turkish) knot. Wool foundations are standard practice among both town and village weavers. The exceptions, very finely woven 20th century and recent Herekeh silks from near Istanbul, and early 17th century Ottoman Court rugs from Bursa, constitute only a tiny part of the total. Always pricey, they appealed and still appeal to the clients who want lots of knots and perfect execution instead of individual personality. The urban workshops have been centered around the western Turkish city of Oushak and its attendant port town of Smyrna. Oushak weaves with the trends in fashion. When color saturated medallion carpets were needed, Oushak was ready in the 17th and 18th centuries. When coarse red and blue carpets were required, Oushak and Smyrna in the 19th century wove them by the boatload. When tastes changed again, and the European dealers in Smyrna wanted room size carpets with lighter and unusual colors, and with Persianate designs, production ramped up in nearby Oushak. Those antique, all-wool construction turn-of-the-century carpets are still in high demand with designers. Antique carpets with allover, roughly drawn patterns on grounds of shrimp, rust, straw, cream, pale blue, and pale and pea green, hitherto unavailable colors, are in such demand today that contemporary Oushaks have attempted to mimic them with soft palettes, extra-large scale drawing and coarse weaves. Oushaks woven for the Turkish market, for palaces, houses and mosques were often oversize with large, repeating medallions, all in shades of (Turkey) red, dark blue, light blue-teal, and ivory, with lemon and green accents. Turkey, along with India, invented standard sizes. By vertically repeating the medallion, one could get one medallion, one with two end halves, two, three, etc. medallions, up to thirty or so feet in length. The process spared making new cartoons for each length and allowed a quicker turnaround time. Oushak, from the time of 15th century “Holbein” rugs onward, has always been a commercial center. The prayer niche directional rug is primarily a Turkish development. In the towns and villages east of Oushak, in Ghiordes, Kula, Ladik, Kirsehir, Mucur and Konya, among others, arch pattern scatters with bright palettes and weaves varying from relatively fine to moderate were almost the entire production. Antique examples were particularly popular in America around 1900. Other centers of village weaving were situated on the western coast and adjacent islands with the town of Melas and neighboring villages weaving geometric prayer rugs and scatters with a characteristic khaki green and lots of yellow. The other large region was in the northwest of Anatolia, near ancient Troy, with the sizable town of Bergama at its center. The satellite towns of Ezine, Karakecilli, Yuntdag, and Canakkale all wove colorful scatters with moderate weaves in all wool with geometric designs and cheerful palettes. Near to Istanbul, these were among the first Turkish rugs to reach Europe in the Renaissance. The earliest Turkish pieces depicted in Italian Old Master paintings display the so-called “Memling gul”, an allover panel pattern with hooked and stepped elements within the reserves. This pattern continues for centuries in the Konya area and in the Caucasus as well. Turkey is a land of villages and much of the most interesting Turkish weaving comes from one undiscovered village or another. The Konya-Cappadocia region of central Turkey includes the active towns of Karapinar, Karaman, Obruk, Sizma, and Tashpinar, all weaving Konya-esque scatters and long rugs. Karapinar has been active the longest, since the 17th century. The mosques in and around Konya have preserved locally-made rugs from the fourteenth. In the 20th century, the extra-long pile, many wefted Tulu rug was devised, with limited palettes and color block patterns. These are not really antique Tulus, but they must be a product of long-standing village tradition. There are thousands upon thousands of rural Turkish villages, almost all with easy access to local tribal wool. Rug students are discovering new names and rug types almost daily. The common denominators are bright colors, geometric designs, wool construction, moderate to coarse weaves and symmetric knots. Synthetic dyes hit the Turkish rug industry quickly and hard after 1870, and they penetrated to even the most off-the-beaten-track villages. This development was almost entirely negative. The village weavers used fugitive or overly bright dyes which ruined the color harmonies built up over centuries. Characteristic types disappeared or were negatively transmuted. The Turkish village rug of the 1870 to 1920 period is nothing to be proud of. In the eastern provinces, the semi-nomadic Kurdish tribes, collectively called ‘Yuruks’, weave all wool, geometric pieces with medium to medium-coarse weaves, as well as kilims and other flatweaves. The rugs employ cochineal instead of madder for the reds, mustard yellows, greens, and various blues. They are under-collected like the Persian Afshars. Their rugs are in scatter and long rug formats. The far eastern Turkish town of Erzerum has a long tradition of idiosyncratic, semi-workshop rugs and further to the east is Kars with a tradition of rugs in the Caucasian Kazak manner. One Turkish specialty is the Yastiks or cushion cover, made in pairs for the public living rooms of village houses. These are larger rugs in miniature and good ones are highly collectible. Like other Turkish rustic weavings, ones with synthetic dyes are almost totally undesirable. Only the tribal Baluch make similar cushion covers, known as pushtis or balishts, in the same small, oblong format. Yastiks always have a back, usually in plain weave, so that they can be easily stuffed. When the Imperial Carpet Factory at Herekeh near Istanbul closed in the early 20th century, the highly proficient Armenian master weavers set up in the Kum Kapi district of Istanbul where they wove all-silk, exquisitely fine and elaborately detailed small pieces, sometimes enriched with metal thread, for the most discriminating European buyers. Today the best, signed Kum Kapi pieces, usually in the “Sultan’s head” prayer niche design, can fetch upwards of $100,000. They are strictly for the wall. An Interwar all-silk room size Kum Kapi carpet is both exceedingly rare and stratospherically priced. The workshops closed in the 1930s, but the weaving of extremely fine, all-silk small rugs in Herekeh was revived in the 1960s. There has been a recent vogue for larger Turkish village vintage...

A vintage Persian Malayer throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 3' 8" x 5' 6".

A vintage Turkish Ghiordes accent rug handmade during the early 20th century. Measures: 4' 0" x 5' 1".

In the Kazak Lori-Pambok design, this vintage east Anatolian piece shows three similar octagonal, hooked octagons closely set vertically on the abrashed brown and neutral field. Char...

An antique Persian Heriz long rug in runner format handmade during the early 20th century. Measures: 3' 4" x 19' 1".

An antique Persian Heriz long rug in runner format handmade during the early 20th century. Measures: 3' 1" x 18' 2".

An antique Persian Bidjar small room size carpet handmade during the early 20th century. Measures: 7' 4" x 11' 0".

A vintage Persian Malayer rug in runner format handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 3' 5" x 13' 2".

A vintage Persian Serab rug in runner format handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 2' 11" x 14' 10" Persian Rugs & Carpets: Persia (Iran) is a moderately large count...

77662 distressed antique Persian Mashhad rug with Modern Rustic style 13'00 x 16'05. This hand-knotted wool distressed antique Persian Mashhad rug features a sixteen point Mashhad st...

A vintage Persian Heriz small room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 6' 11" x 10' 2".

Seven geometric, pointed medallions with four radiating palmettes around cross centers, float easily on the two tone camel field with fractional fillers at sides and corners. Red bor...

A vintage Persian Malayer throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 3' 6" x 5' 10".

A vintage Persian Malayer throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 3' 7" x 5' 1".

An antique Persian Senneh Malayer throw rug handmade during the early 20th century. Measures: 3' 10" x 4' 11".

A vintage Persian Hamadan small throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 2' 0" x 3' 1".

A vintage Persian Malayer throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 3' 6" x 5' 9" Persian rugs & carpets: Persia (Iran) is a moderately large country with a ve...

A vintage Persian Malayer throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 3' 6" x 4' 9".

An antique Persian Serab rug in runner format handmade during the early 20th century. Measures: 3' 5" x 13' 6".

An antique Persian Malayer rug in runner format handmade during the early 20th century. Measures: 3' 5" x 13' 3".

An antique Caucasian Seychour (Zeychur) accent rug handmade during the early 20th century featuring two dark blue and rust St. Andrew’s Oblique Crosses to design the ivory field. ...

A vintage Persian Malayer throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 3' 6" x 5' 6".

A vintage Persian Malayer throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 3' 7" x 5' 3".

An antique Persian Malayer accent rug handmade during the early 20th century. Measures: 3' 5" x 6' 7".

An antique Persian Serab rug in runner format handmade during the early 20th century. Measures: 3' 5" x 13' 4".

71901 vintage Persian Hamadan Accent rug with Traditional style. This hand knotted wool vintage Persian Hamadan accent rug features an onyx central medallion with zigzag edges in an ...

A vintage Persian Malayer throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 3' 6" x 5' 8" Persian rugs & carpets: Persia (Iran) is a moderately large country with a ve...

A vintage Persian Malayer rug in runner format handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 3' 5" x 12' 11".

A vintage Persian Malayer rug in gallery format handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 4' 6" x 10' 3" Persian rugs & carpets: Persia (Iran) is a moderately large coun...

72936, rustic style antique Persian Tabriz accent rug for Kitchen, Foyer or Entry Rug. This hand knotted wool antique Persian Tabriz accent rug features an orange cusped medallion wi...

Hand knotted in a high-quality wool originating from India, this geometric-floral rug is the latest addition to Rug & Kilim’s Homage Collection, enjoying a finer take on distressed s...

An antique Persian Malayer rug in runner format handmade during the early 20th century. Measures: 2' 11" x 13' 4" Persian Rugs & Carpets: Persia (Iran) is a moderately large c...

An antique Persian Tabriz room size carpet handmade during the early 20th century. Measures: 7' 11" x 10' 8".

A vintage Persian Mahal small throw rug in square format handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 2' 3" x 2' 4".

A vintage Persian Malayer small throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 2' 2" x 3' 2".

A vintage Persian Hamadan carpet in long and narrow gallery format handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 4' 4" x 10' 2".