Midcentury Anatolian Tulu Rug with Ascending Arches

100% Natural Hand-Spun Wool of finest quality. These hand-knotted rugs are produced from scratch in our atelier located in Central Anatolia, famous for being one of the world's olde...

A one-of-a-kind early 20th century, Tulu, (thick-pile) rug from central Turkey with a niched design of linked and colorful lozenges 100% wool. These rare small rugs were made for ...

An unusual one of a kind hand-knotted "Tulu" rug from Central Anatolia, Turkey with a prayer/niche or so called archway design. Colors: Red, green cream, violet blue, light brown and...

A vintage hand knotted "Tulu" rug from Konya in Central Anatolia, Turkey. 100% natural undyed handspun wool. These simple and somewhat primitive small rugs with lustrous wool pile w...

A vintage hand-knotted "Tulu" (Turkish word for thick, soft-piled rugs) rug from Central Turkey, traditionally woven in two panels and made of hand-spun sheep's wool. The rug feature...

A vintage hand-knotted "Tulu" (Turkish word for "long piled") rug from Konya in Central Turkey. The rug is made of soft lamb’s wool. Measures: 5 x 6 Ft. These contemporary looking s...

Distinguished by a squarish format typical of yatak (bedding) rugs, this Tulu has a soft creamy yellow background randomly punctuated by small dots and by a larger one indicating the...

A truly spectacular runner distinguished by a plethora of colours arranged as horizontal stripes. Tulu rugs represent one of the earliest forms of nomadic pile weaving, typically kno...

The overall composition of this niche design rug relates it to a group of white ground central Anatolian prayer rugs, mostly woven with more traditional motifs. The primitive nature of the drawing imparts here a cave-like appearance to the niche. The use of silky Angora mohair wool (filik in Turkish) is characteristic of the most precious Tulus. Warp: wool, ivory Weft: wool, ivory, 3-6 shots between knotted rows Knot: symmetrical, weaving direction adjacent to niche, no warp depression Knot count: 4H x 3V = 12 knots/square inch Selvages: three sets of paired warps Ends: weft-faced plain weave; top with corded fringes Colours: ivory, maroon (corrosive), light green, red, grey blue, camel, orange (7) This rug is featured in our current web exhibition entitled 'Like a Prayer...

Tulu rugs represent one of the earliest forms of nomadic pile weaving, typically knotted with a medium-high pile as they were meant as bedding rugs for the tent. Woven in the Karapin...

The large hooked triangle that dominates the composition of this other Tulu acts as a directional motif delineating the prayer niche, which follows the direction of weaving. It could...

This archaic looking niche design rug is distinguished by the extra weft loop pile technique, which is one of the earliest forms of weaving that preceded the creation of the pile rug...