Fine Vintage Turkish Oushak Rug, Wool on Wool, Hand Knotted, circa 1970s

Fine vintage Bidjar Persian rug, hand knotted, circa 1970s Design: Diamonds Bidjar is the name of a small Kurdish town in western Iran. Kurdish carpets are often very strong an...

Extremly fine Persian Tabriz Benam rug, hand knotted, circa 1970s Design: Benam A Tabriz rug/carpet is a type in the general category of Persian carpets from the city of Tabriz...

Oushak carpets, Ushak carpets or Oushak carpets (Turkish: Oushak Kilimi) are Turkish carpets that use a particular family of designs, called by convention after the city of Oushak, T...

Ousak carpets, Ushak carpets or Oushak Carpets (Turkish: Usak Kilimi) are Turkish carpets that use a particular family of designs, called by convention after the city of Usak, Turkey...

Oushak carpets, Ushak carpets or Oushak Carpets (Turkish: Oushak Kilimi) are Turkish carpets that use a particular family of designs, called by convention after the city of Oushak ,...

Usak carpets, Ushak carpets or Oushak carpets (Turkish: Usak Kilimi) are Turkish carpets that use a particular family of designs, called by convention after the city of Usak, Turkey, one of the larger towns in Western Anatolia, which was a major center of rug production from the early days of the Ottoman Empire, into the early 20th century (although these patterns were woven in other regions also. After the 17th century, Ushaks (Ovshaks), development of Oushak rug weaving is less well known. Late 17th century saw a decline in the Oriental rug market as European consumers tended to purchase rugs of European origin – primarily Aubusson, Savonnerie and Axminster. The wane in the European market meant that Ovshak production declined. Those that were still made throughout the late 18th and early 19th centuries were manufactured for upper-class people in the Turkish territories on Eastern Europe. Towards the end of the 19th century, when the European market began to be interested in Persian carpets once again, the Ushak (Ovshak) population did not have enough weavers still skilled in the traditional Ovshak craft. Manufactories had to turn to neighboring villages and their craftsmen who still maintained traditional techniques. Ushak carpets, particularly those known as lotto carpets...

Hand knotted vintage Turkish Oushak Runner with Geometric Tribal design, Keivan Woven Arts / TU-VEY-4608, mid-20th century. Turkish oushak vintage Runner. This vintage Turkish Ous...

A vintage Turkish Oushak rug with a beautiful pattern woven in orange, gold, green, and cream colored wool. The border is exceptional, with large-scale wide stylized floral and leaf ...

A vintage Turkish Oushak rug with a beautiful diamond medallion amidst a field of flowers woven in gold, indigo, brown, and cream color wool. The border is exceptional, with large-sc...

Azeri rug from Turkey with medaillon Full pile hand-knotted Turkish Azeri rug with blue field and beige border. Azeri rugs and carpets are mainly made of fine, hand-spun wool, Thi...

52129 Distressed vintage Turkish Oushak runner. French Country and Romantic Rusticity meets timeless Anatolian tradition in this han...

This traditional hand-woven Turkish Oushak rug has a shaded dusty rose field with sparse pictorial floral bouquets separating double taupe arabesque medallions, in a saffron yellow r...