Caucasian Turkish Rugs

Originating from Turkey circa 1960-1970, a 5x9 vintage mid-century rug featuring a neat geometric pattern in variegated tones of pink and beige-brown. From Rug & Kilim’s Mid-Century Pasha Collection, commemorating the works of bold multidisciplinary Turkish artists...

Oushak Rug Oriental Hand Knotted Turkish Oushak 6'9" x 10'6" #3090 Explore a curated collection of hallway runners, wool rugs, and handmade masterpieces, where elegance meets functi...

Fine Turkish Sivas Antique rug, country of origin / type of rug: Antique Turkish rugs, date: circa 1900. Size: 3 ft 9 in x 5 ft 8 in (1.14 m x 1.73 m).

Fine Vintage Turkish Anatolian Kilim Wool Rug 3'6'' x 4'10''. A technique rather than a type of rug. Technique is: slit tapestry, warp shared wefting, single or double weft interlock...

A vintage Turkish flat-weave Kilim small room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century in shades of red orange. Measures: 7' 10" x 11' 0" Knotted pile rugs are just one...

Turkish Handmade Kilim Wool Flatweave Rug Brown Multicolor 9'10" x 12'3" This stunning Turkish Kilim rug, handwoven with a captivating geometric design, showcases a beautiful blend ...

Hand-knotted in wool from Turkey circa 1940-1950, this 7x9 vintage Oushak rug is a rare curation from Rug & Kilim. On The Design: Connoisseurs will admire this piece as an extreme...

A contemporary Turkish room size carpet handmade during the 21st century inspired by Moroccan carpets from the mid-20th century period. Measures: 10' 4" x 12' 8".

A modern Turkish large room size carpet handmade during the 21st century inspired by Moroccan rugs of the mid-20th century period. Measures: 14' 2" x 18' 8".

A vintage Turkish Anatolian throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 3' 4" x 6' 7".

We made a cushion cover using the undamaged parts of the precious and high-quality old & antique kilims that cannot be repaired. Like a painting, a part of the scenery is cut out fro...

Oushak Rug Oriental Hand Knotted Turkish Oushak 10'10" x 11'6" #2712 Explore a curated collection of hallway runners, wool rugs, and handmade masterpieces, where elegance meets func...

A modern Turkish flat-woven Kilim style rug from the 21st century.

Oushak Rug Oriental Hand Knotted Turkish Oushak 3'2" x 5'5" #823 Explore a curated collection of hallway runners, wool rugs, and handmade masterpieces, where elegance meets function...

Discover the vibrant charm of this Multicolor Handwoven Turkish Oushak Rug, featuring an eye-catching geometric design. Measuring 2'10" x 4'9", this exquisite piece combines traditio...

Oushak Rug Oriental Hand Knotted Turkish Oushak 6'4" x 8'11" #437 Explore a curated collection of hallway runners, wool rugs, and handmade masterpieces, where elegance meets functio...

Old Turkish Kirsehir village prayer rug of classic design with good colour. The rug has very pleasing colours including soft red, a superb yellow and a nice light blue. The rug is...

Oushak Rug Oriental Hand Knotted Turkish Oushak 2'10" x 4'2" #2162 Explore a curated collection of hallway runners, wool rugs, and handmade masterpieces, where elegance meets functi...

A vintage 2x2 square tribal rug inRug & Kilim’s newest curation of rare Persian tribal pieces. Hand-knotted in wool circa 1950-1960 with a playful attitude, exemplary of this provena...

A truly unique miniature antique Turkish rug, decorated by a realistic-looking lion. Possibly commissioned for a specific occasion, it's the perfect gift for an animal-loving person,...

This vintage 3x5 Gabbeh Persian rug is from the latest entries in Rug & Kilim’s rare tribal curations. Hand-knotted in wool circa 1950-1960. On the Design: This tribal provenan...

An antique Turkish Sivas carpet from the early 20th century.

With its soft beauty and tranquil vibes, this Vintage Turkish Pure Silk Sivas rug features an all-ver florid elements of rosettes, millefleur sprigs, blooming palmettes, and arabesqu...

Hand-knotted in wool, a scintillating vintage 4x8 Art Deco rug from Rug & Kilim’s growing Mid-Century Pasha collection—featuring notable works of the iconic Turkish designer Zeki Mur...

The golden ivory field presents a large-scale, very spacious version of the Perso-Caucasian Hershang all-over design with ragged palmettes, pointed oval cartouches and stiff vines. T...

Oushak Rug Oriental Hand Knotted Turkish Oushak 3'3" x 7'1" #4416 Explore a curated collection of hallway runners, wool rugs, and handmade masterpieces at , where elegance meets func...

Handwoven in fine quality wool, a 5x7 kilim rug from Turkey circa 1950-1960 joining our Kilim & Flatweave collection. The vintage flat weave enjoys...

Hand knotted in wool from a notable sheen yarn originating from Turkey circa 1950-1960, this midcentury rug remarks a distinctive vintage Oushak rug design with a notably inviting pe...

Size: 13`3`` x 17`5`` We can alter the dimensions and make it smaller or larger if requested. These authentic flat-weaves (Kilims) from Eastern Turkey were handwoven by Nomads unt...

Measures: 2'7 x 11'1 Vintage Turkish Modern Art Deco Runner in Soft Pastel Hues Keivan Woven Arts / Rug / TU-MTU-89 Country of origin / Turkish type / Modern Art runner features an a...

Originating from Turkey circa 1920-1930, this Oushak rug is a new entrant to Rug & Kilim’s coveted antique collection. Hand Knotted in wool, this 12x15 sized rug exemplifies a subtle...

Oushak carpets, also known as Ushak or Usak carpets, are renowned for their timeless beauty, rich history, and exceptional craftsmanship. Originating from the region of Oushak in wes...

Antique Turkish Oushak Rug (size adjusted) Size: 10'2" × 10'3" (309 × 312 cm). Radiating timeless elegance and artisanal mastery, this square antique Turkish Oushak rug (circa early ...

A vintage Turkish Sivas carpet from the second quarter of the 20th century.

Vintage Turkish Kars Rug, Keivan Woven Arts / rug EN-178450, country of origin / type: Turkey / Oushak, circa Mid-20th century Vintage Turkish Kars rug features large diamond sh...

Oushak Rug Oriental Hand Knotted Turkish Oushak 9'2" x 12' #5028 Explore a curated collection of hallway runners, wool rugs, and handmade masterpieces at , where elegance meets funct...

Vintage Zeki Müren Rug with a Modern Design. Measures: 3'7 x 6'6. Vintage Mid-Century Zeki Müren Rug in excellent condition. Rug # EN-960, This ...

Oushak Rug Oriental Hand Knotted Turkish Oushak 9'2" x 13' #5364 Explore a curated collection of hallway runners, wool rugs, and handmade masterpieces at , where elegance meets funct...

A finely hand-knotted vintage Turkish carpet from 1950s featuring an elegant medallion design. The rug has even low wool pile on cotton foundation. It is heavy and lays flat on the f...

Oriental Hand Knotted Turkish Modern Tulu Rug 6'2" x 12' #43 Explore a curated collection of hallway runners, wool rugs, and handmade masterpieces where elegance meets functionality....

Large Antique Turkish Ghiordes Rug, Country Of Origin: Turkey, Circa date: 1820. Size: 15 ft 6 in x 18 ft 7 in (4.72 m x 5.66 m)

A modern Turkish room size carpet with a diagonally hooked pattern in black and white over a beige ground handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 8' 6" x 12' 2".

Handwoven in a wool flat-weave utilizing vintage yarns, this modern Kilim rug from Rug & Kilim’s Patchwork Kilim rug collection marries inspiration from midcentury flat-weave rugs wi...

This vintage 2x8 runner is a new addition to Rug & Kilim’s commemorative Mid-Century Pasha Collection. This line is a commemoration of rare curations we b...

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 contemporary Turkish Shag rug in square format handmade during the late 20th century in coral and black. Measures: 7' 2" x 7' 10".

Oushak Rug Oriental Hand Knotted Turkish Oushak 9'4" x 12" #11086 Explore a curated collection of hallway runners, wool rugs, and handmade masterpieces, where elegance meets functio...

a late 19th-century Turkish Hereke worn rug in moss green and raspberry tones Details rug no. 31621 size 5' 2" x 8' 1" (157 x 246 cm)

This vintage 5x8 distressed style rug is a new addition to Rug & Kilim’s Mid-Century Pasha Collection. This line is a commemoration, with rare curations we believe to hail from multi...

Measures: 6'10" X9'0" Vintage Turkish Kilim Rug with Mocha and Light Blue Stripes 6'10" X9'0".Keivan Woven Arts / Rug / EN-179488, Country of origin / type: Turkey / Kilim. This vi...

Oriental Hand Knotted Vintage Turkish Mini Rug 1'8" x 3'5" #9035 Explore a curated collection of hallway runners, wool rugs, and handmade masterpieces, where elegance meets functiona...

Oriental Hand Knotted Vintage Turkish Mini Rug 1'9" x 3'4" #8540 Explore a curated collection of hallway runners, wool rugs, and handmade masterpieces, where elegance meets functiona...

Handwoven in wool, Rug & Kilim presents a 3x8 contemporary runner from their innovative new patchwork kilim collection. On the Design: This flat weave technique repurposes vi...

This exquisite vintage Turkish Oushak rug is a stunning example of traditional craftsmanship and timeless beauty. Hand-knotted from premium wool fibers, this rug features intricate p...

Hand-knotted in wool, a 4x8 vintage rug from a bold Turkish designer, entering Rug & Kilim’s commemorative Mid-Century Pasha Collection. The 1960s take on Art Deco style relishes...

This is a Central Anatolian Modern 'New' Fine Kilim from the Konya region with a rare and beautiful color composition. As early as the 13th century Marco Polo noted, in his account...

A vintage Turkish Anatolian carpet from the mid-20th century. Measures: 5' 5" x 7' 9"

Bursting with color and character, this hand-woven wool patchwork rug is a joyful celebration of Turkish textile heritage. Rug is crafted from a curated mix of vintage rugs—purple, r...

A finely woven wool rug distinguished by a pointillist pattern of red dots of different dimensions punctuating a natural beige background. The resulting pattern mimics the design we ...

This elegant antique Oushak carpet, of considerably ample size, dates back to around the end of the 19th Century and beautifully illustrates the impeccable craftsmanship and artistry...