Rustic Rugs and Carpets

Both the colour, design and construction of this fine wool rug make it the perfect accent piece. This piece features a rich red all over tribal design woven on a contrasting ivory ba...

A vintage Persian flatweave Kilim accent rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 6' 8" x 7' 2".

Nice 19th century Bijar rug with geometrical and tribal design and beautiful natural colors, entirely hand knotted with wool velvet on wool foundation.

An antique Persian Malayer throw rug handmade during the early 20th century. Measures: 3' 9" x 4' 10".

An antique Persian Serab runner handmade during the early 20th century. Measures: 3' 1" x 14' 0".

A vintage Persian Mahal accent rug in runner format handmade during the mid-20th century with a pictorial design. Measures: 3' 6" x 7' 6".

This hand knotted Classic rug joins the latest additions to the Homage collection by Rug & Kilim, an ambitious custom-capable encyclopedia of periods recapturing and reinventing an u...

This fine wool rug was woven by hand in Azerbaijan country in the Caucasus region known for there bold design. The central design features a symmetrical floral pattern woven in blue,...

This beautiful Zapotec rug is a limited collection piece made by Master Artisan Román Gutierrez. Every yarn is hand-dyed using natural ingredients and pigments from the Oaxaca region...

A vintage Persian Heriz accent rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 6' 7" x 9' 6".

A vintage Persian Malayer small room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 6' 7" x 10' 3".

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' 9" x 5' 2".

A vintage Persian Malayer throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 3' 9" x 5' 2".

A vintage Persian Malayer rug in runner format handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 2' 9" x 9' 10" Persian rugs & carpets: Persia (Iran) is a moderately large count...

An antique Caucasian 'Atly Itli (horse and dog)' Karabagh pictorial accent rug handmade during the early 20th century. Measures: 4' 4" x 6' 5".

Nice antique Hamadan rug with a Decorative design and nice colors, entirely hand knotted with wool velvet on cotton foundation. ✨✨✨ "Experience the epitome of luxury and craftsmansh...

This vintage wool runner rug was woven by hand in the 1960s and featured a rich red background and geometric design made up of brown and beige...

This gorgeous vintage hand-knotted Turkish area rug. It is made of soft, lustrous sheep's wool on wool foundation, is in very good condition, sturdy and clean as a brand new rug. It ...

Very narrow one of a kind Persian heriz runner from the second quarter of the 20th century. Pink, rust, blue tones on an ivory ground. The size is original, circa 1940s. Measures:...

Pretty 19th century tribal rug with nice geometrical Caucasian design and nice natural colors, entirely hand knotted with wool velvet on wool foundation. ✨✨✨ "Experience the epitome...

Midcentury tribal rug with geometrical design and nice colors, entirely hand knotted with wool velvet on cotton foundation.

this pillow case is made from vintage and old recycled cotton textiles from Western Anatolia. It does not come with an insert. Linen in the back. Dry Cleaning is recommended.     

A vintage Persian Veece small room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 7' 5" x 11' 1".

Very beautiful and colorful Anatolian Kilim with beautiful geometrical design and nice colors, entirely handwoven with wool on cotton foundation. ✨✨✨ "Experience the epitome of luxu...

Beautiful 19th century rug with nice design and beautiful natural colors, entirely hand knotted with wool velvet on cotton foundation. ✨✨✨ "Experience the epitome of luxury and craf...

An antique Persian Malayer throw rug handmade during the early 20th century. Measures: 3' 6" x 5' 11" Persian rugs & carpets: Persia (Iran) is a moderately large country with ...

Nice Hamadan rug with beautiful geometrical tribal design and beautiful colors, entirely hand knotted with wool velvet on cotton foundation. ✨✨✨ "Experience the epitome of luxury an...

A vintage Persian flatweave Kilim accent rug in square format handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 6' 6" x 7' 4".

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

60938 Distressed Antique Persian Turkaman rug with Modern Rustic Style 09'09 x 12'04. Emanating sophistication and nomadic charm with rustic sensibility, this hand knotted wool distr...

An antique Persian Kurd runner handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 3' 2" x 9' 11".

It does not come with an insert. Linen in the back. Zipper closure. Dry cleaning is reccommended.

A vintage Turkish Anatolian accent rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 3' 6" x 6' 7" 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...

A vintage Persian Veece small room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 7' 1" x 11' 5".

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 Turkish Anatolian room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 9' 4" x 12' 4".

An antique Persian Kurd throw rug handmade during the early 20th century in shades of red and cream with an overall rustic appeal with its flat-...

An antique Persian Wagireh (sampler) Bidjar accent rug handmade during the early 20th century. Wagireh rugs have become highly sought after by collectors and rug enthusiasts. Meas...

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

Nice Turkmen Afghan rug with beautiful geometrical design and red, brown and blue colors, entirely hand knotted with wool velvet on wool foundation. ✨✨✨ "Experience the epitome of l...

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...

A vintage American large square American rag rug handmade during the mid-20th century.

A vintage Persian Malayer throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 3' 9" x 4' 11".

This impressive antique red rug is made from our master weavers in Caucasia. These particular carpet runners are made with all-natural vegetable dyes. The patterned rugs display an all-over geometrical rug pattern. This woven rug also has an intermingled circular medallions. This tribal rug has red, orange and black colours on it and is a great example of traditional rugs. These rugs and runners cannot be found in every rug shop. These extra-large rugs would stand out as stair runners or as living room rugs. Runner rugs and Oriental rug runners...

Pillow Cover is made from a hand woven cotton fabric, woven in Anatolia, Turkey. It does not come with an insert. Cotton in the back. Zipper closure. Dry clean is recommended.

Pillow cover is made from a hand woven cotton fabric ,woven in Anatolia, Turkey. It does not come with an insert. Cotton in the back. Zipper closure. Dry clean is recommended.  

Pillow cover is made from a hand woven cotton fabric, woven in Anatolia, Turkey. It does not come with an insert. Cotton in the back. Zipper closure. Dry clean is recommended.   

Very beautiful midcentury rug with nice geometrical tribal design and beautiful colors, entirely hand knotted with wool velvet on cotton foundation Size: 160 x 218 cm.

It is made from vintage Anatolian hand woven fabrics dating back to mid 20th c. The stitching done in silk. It doesn't come with an insert. Zipper ...

Beautiful large vintage Moroccan rug with a decorative design and nice colors with white field, orange, purple, pink and black, entirely hand knotted with wool velvet on cotton found...

A one of a kind vintage Turkish rug. Finely hand-knotted with even medium wool pile on wool foundation. Very good condition. Sturdy and as clean as a brand new rug (deep washed profe...

Pillow Cover is made from a hand woven cotton fabric, woven in Anatolia, Turkey. It does not come with an insert. Cotton in the back. Zipper closure. Dry clean is recommended.    

Pillow Cover is made from a hand woven cotton fabric, woven in Anatolia, Turkey. It does not come with an insert. Cotton in the back. Zipper closure. Dry clean is recommended.

Nice vintage Afghan rug with a beautiful geometrical Bokhara design and red field color, entirely and finely hand knotted with wool velvet on wool foundation.

It is made from vintage Anatolian hand woven fabrics dating back to mid 20th c. The stitching done in silk. It doesn't come with an insert. Zipper ...

An antique Persian Heriz large room size carpet handmade during the early 20th century. Measures: 9' 4" x 15' 1".

Hand knotted carpet in a Turkish factory. High quality, beautiful graphics and remarkable finesse. Perfect state of preservation. Dimensions: 127 x 80 cm.