Oriental Saddlebag

Interesting price for this ancient Turkish kilim saddlebag, to be used as a cushion or on the floor as a mat. It has a fine workmanship with a very accurate design: truly interestin...

Double saddle bag, loom wooven with wool dyed with vegetable substances. It can be hung on the wall or placed on an easel and serve as a newspaper holder; with two pillows it becomes...

nr. 501 - My Private Collection - Saddle with a red background, woven on a manual loom, with small round polychrome designs in relief, enclosed in a beautiful knotted frame, therefor...

nr. 1214 - I bought this fabric many years ago from a kinf and honest turkish trader, who I had given the task of finding beautiful and very particular exemplaries not available on ...

The handmade carpet manufacturing of these masterpieces luxury rugs began late the 19th century. This oriental rug was woven in Asian Anatolia, Turkey in the historic city of Hereke. In the mid-19th century, Sultan Abdul Majid proclaimed Hereke to be the royal weaving village. The silk rugs were woven there were considered the finest in the world. All examples used select Borsa silk which is the finest quality carpet silk. The Sultan required that all of the silk rugs woven in Hereke had to be signed with the name Hereke. These carpets were regularly woven for the aristocracy in Europe, Asia, and The Middle East. The design of this rug is unique because it is an interpretation of the famous 17th-century Mughal carpet from India. The Mughal carpet was exhibited in the Metropolitan Museum and was illustrated in the book called Flowers Under Foot...

Fine oriental carpet, circa 100 years old.

A rare find. This antique rug yellow is a beautiful old gold ground handmade carpet runner in excellent condition. luxury rug with full pile everywhere, finely woven and full of char...

A finely hand-knotted vintage Central Anatolian golden purple rug with a Classic all-over paradise design of small patterns. The high-quality wool pile on strong silk foundation of t...