Antique Turkish Sivas Rug

Eastern Turkish town scatter with three cartouches on a sandy-straw ground, all with cream octogramme centers. Sand border with a Caucasian "crab" pattern.

The beige field shows a centralized pattern of two layers of long rinceaux and concave diamonds decorated by a somewhat spacious design of small palmettes and related floriate elemen...

This “Turkish Tabriz” shows a perfectly balanced small, allover Herati design on a buff field, set off by a symmetric reversing turtle main border on a dark ground. Outer minor trimm...

This Tabriz-style eastern Turkish medallion carpet presents a slightly scalloped central ecru pointed oval on a pink field with widely spaced arabesques with rosette joins and attach...

An early 20th century Turkish Sivas. Sivas is a city in North Central Turkey, which is a major production site of Turkish rugs based on Persian designs. Often finely woven, Sivas rug...

A very finely hand knotted truly divine formal Turkish Sivas rug from the late 19th century. Very unusual design and border.

The town of Sivas in central Turkey is the easternmost carpet producing town in that country. The rugs woven here often have patterns that are based on those found in traditional rugs and carpets from other countries. These rugs are woven with symmetrical knots on cotton foundations. This example copies a classic Mughal carpet, circa 1600, currently in the collection of The Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna. Aptly titled “carpet with bird...

An antique Turkish Sivas rug from the early 20th century with large navy blue palmettes and acanthus scrolls on a very muted and tonal background.