Early 20th Century Turkish Rugs

The very pale green field shows a palmette and branches open small medallion connected to open work pendants. Ecru forked arabesques define the straw palmette quarter corners. Light pink palmette...

A one of a kind antique decorative Turkish Ghiordes rug.

Antique Rug Heriz Serapi Rug 107cm x 160cm Oriental Rug 4x5 High Quality 3'6" x 5'3" 107cm x 160cm Circa 1920 "This is an authentic antique piece with a magnificent geometric desig...

Beautiful vintage Turkish hand knotted wool rug with a beige field. This rug has brown accents in a gorgeous all-over geometric tribal design, This rug measures: 2'8" x 11'9".

An early 20th-century Turkish Oushak in gray and lavender. 11'1'' x 12'6''

77156 Antique Turkish Sivas Rug, 11'10 x 14'07. From the heart of central Anatolia, Turkey, emerge the enchanting Sivas rugs, renowned for their flawless artistry and mesmerizing des...

This is Central Anatolian antique Kilim from the Konya - Obruk region with a rare and beautiful color composition. This highly collectible antique kilim has a wonderful special c...

Handmade with wool circa 1920-1930, this 10x13 is a rare piece from a special new curation of one-of-a-kind pieces from this provenance – some of the earliest works of Americana and ...

Very beautiful mid century mahal rug with a garden design and beautiful colors, entirely hand knotted with wool velvet on cotton foundation. ✨✨✨ "Experience the epitome of luxury an...

Antique Oushak rug Measurement: 11'6" x 11'6".

An enormous antique Turkish Oushak rug with a very interesting turquoise shade with a caramel center medallion set on a salmon ground. In pretty good condition which is uncommon for ...

Oushak rugs, also known as Ushak rugs, are woven in Western Turkey and have distinct designs, such as angular large-scale floral patterns. They usually evoke a calmness and peacefuln...

Antique Oushak Rug 10'10" x 11'0"

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...

Antique Donegal carpet from Ireland in solid Purple Background and Floral Border in a near square size. Keivan Woven Arts / Rug/ HAS-3327. Don...

53786 Distressed Antique Turkish Oushak Rug, 02'06 x 09'00. Weathered finesse meets global chic in this hand knotted wool distressed antique Turkish Oushak rug. Let yourself be whisk...

West Anatolia is one of the largest weaving regions in Turkey. Since the 15th century, Turkish rugs have always been on top of the list for having fine oriental rugs. Oushak rugs su...

This rug presents a tranquil and sophisticated palette of earthy browns and soft beige, exuding a sense of quiet elegance. The field is adorned with large, blooming floral motifs, me...

Beautiful antique Kasari hand knotted silk rug with a beige color field. This piece has multicolor accents all over the geometric pattern. This luxurious Fine art piece is crafted wi...

An antique Turkish Oushak room size rug in square format handmade during the early 20th century with a vertical cane design (pole design). Measures: 11' 9" x 12' 10".

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A 5 x 11 antique rug of Khotan design lineage, hand knotted in wool from East Turkestan, circa 1920-1920. Enjoying a medallion pattern in all over style with beige-brown and pink hue...

The town of Oushak first emerged as a center for the production of Ottoman Turkish court carpets from the end of the fifteenth century. Like these forerunners, the antique Oushak car...

All-over flower design Oushak rug from Turkey. Keivan Woven Arts / rug 19-0505, country of origin / type: Turkey / Oushak, circa 1900. Antique oushak, Large antique oushak, Turkish ...

An antique Turkish Oushak rug in runner format handmade during the early 20th century. Measures: 2' 8" x 10' 9" 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...

This antique Persian Tabriz rug is skillfully sourced by N A S I R I through extensive research and travels. Located in northwest Iran, the city of Tabriz was the earliest capital o...

52607 Antique Turkish Oushak Rug, 02'10 x 04'04. Woven like a forgotten verse from the highlands of Anatolia, this hand-knotted wool antique Turkish Oushak rug carries the mystique o...

Beautiful vintage Turkish hand knotted wool rug with a pink-rose field. This rug has accents of yellow, gray, and orange in a gorgeous all-over geometric Shabby Chic design, This ...

Beautiful Antique Runner rug, hand knotted wool with a light rust field, orange and dark brown accents in an allover multi medallion geometric design. This rug measures 2' 8" x 11...

52087, vintage Turkish Oushak runner, narrow hallway runner. This hand knotted wool vintage Turkish Oushak runner features three connected hexago...

Early 20th Century Turkish Oushak Carpet ( 12'3" x 15'10" - 375 x 485 cm )

Vintage Turkish Rug 4'9'' x 6'6''. The carpets, scatters, runners, long rugs and bags of the towns, villages and tribes of Anatolia, including: Oushak, Ghiordes, Kula, Ladik, Hereke,...

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).

The only dark colors are the wandering corals vines outlining the corners. The beige subfield is internally hooked, stepped and end-pointed. Pale straw accents. Sandy border with bro...

This fine decorative handmade carpet colourful rug is an Azeri carpet rug woven by very skilled weavers in Azerbaijan who used the highest quality wool on wool. The exclusive flat-we...

Antique Moroccan Kilim with Embroidery in Red, Orange, Gray and Brown, S12-0601, 1930's Antique Moroccan Kilim Rug . This brilliant kilim displ...

Beautiful Antique Square Oushak hand-knotted wool rug with a goldenrod field. This Turkish rug has a blue frame and multi-color accents in an all-over gorgeous geometric floral desig...

The lightly abrashed shrimp pink field displays a small, lobed medallion with a diamond sub-medallion, and rust-accented floating leaves about. Dark green border with bent and barbed...

This is Central Anatolian Antique Kilim from the Sivas region with a rare and beautiful color composition. Sivas In the third century, Sivas was a Roman city known as Sebastea, the capital of Armenia Minor. Flourishing under Byzantine rule, Sivas reached a peak of prosperity under the Seljuks, only to be plundered in the fourteenth century by Tamerlane, as it was an important venue on the Persian and Iraqi trade routes. The Sivas region is inhabited by Turkish and Kurdish people, and until the genocide wrought by the Turks early this century, many Armenians dwelt there as well. Sivas gained certain fame as the site for the Sivas Congress of September 1919, convened by Mustafa Kemal...

78232 antique red Turkish Oushak rug inspired by Thomas Eakins 12'00 x 14'02. Showcasing a bold expressive design, incredible detail and texture, this ha...

Beautiful antique Turkish Anatolian runner rug, hand knotted wool with a red field, brown frame and tan accents in all-over multi medallion design. This rug measures 3' 6" x 10' 1".

Antique Persian Hamadan Rug with Colorful Geometric Medallion. Keivan Woven Arts / rug EMB-22173-15034, country of origin / type: Iran / Hamadan, c...

Rug Number 57686 Size 4' 6" X 6' 4" Design Sivas Collection Antique/Vintage Material Silk Texture Pile Weave Origin Turkey Age Antique/Vintage.

Vintage Turkish gallery rug or a wide runner flat woven kilim from the early 1900s. The kilim has beautiful soft colors including pale brick red in the field which is formed by 5 la...

Tribal geometric designs run through the centre of this antique runner rug on a deep red background. A layered border encloses this. The handwoven rustic rug was constructed from han...

Beautiful Anatolian Turkish Runner rug, hand knotted wool with a tan field, with tan and light gray accents in multi medallion design. This rug measures 2' 11" x 13' 2". Mad...

Beautiful vintage Turkish hand-knotted wool rug with a pink-rose field. This rug has a tan, ivory, and blue accents in a gorgeous all-over geometric medallion floral design, This ...

An antique Turkish Oushak large carpet handmade during the Early 20th century. Measures: 12' 9" x 16' 11"

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Tulu rugs represent one of the earliest forms of nomadic pile weaving, typically knotted with a medium-high pile as these were intended as bedding rugs for the tent. The patterns are...

Measures: 6'9"X9'4" Vintage Turkish Kars Rug with Geometric Medallions in Earthy Browns and Soft Pink Tones 6'9"x9'4". Antique Oushak Rug with Oushak Design. Keivan Woven Arts/ Rug...

A charming early 20th century Afghan Ersari Prayer Rug with three octagonal medallions on a crimson background with geometric patterned halos amidst a field of stylized flowers. The ...

A rare and early Tulu woven using the finest Angora wool, resulting in a finely woven rug with a silky texture and a blanket-like handle. The soft camel field is embellished by a zoomorphic central device similar to some motifs founds in Neolithic cave paintings. Examples of this type represent the pinnacle of the primitive pile weaving tradition, and were woven by the Yuruk nomads inhabiting the Toros...

Charming muted colors Oushak carpet with the unidirectional shapes. Ushak rugs have been in production since the 15th century with superb wools and natural dyes. Unlike other Turki...

Beautiful Soft And Decorative Antique Turkish Oushak Rug, Country of Origin / Rug Type: Antique Turkish Rugs, Circa Date: 1900

Rug & Kilim welcomes this large scale antique Oushak rug to its exclusive collection of antique rugs. Hand-knotted in wool from Turkey circa 1910-1920, the spacious drawing enjoys a ...

This antique 8x10 Hereke rug is a rare new selection in Rug & Kilim’s Antique & Vintage Collection—hand-knotted in wool circa 1920-1930. On the Design: This rug enjoys a beige and...

This vintage hand-knotted wool rug is a captivating example of tribal textile artistry, offering a bold geometric composition softened by time and wear. Its grand proportions make it...

Early 20th Century Turkish Oushak Carpet ( 10'5'' x 12'6'' - 318 x 382 )

77279 Vintage Turkish Oushak Rug Runner, 02'06 x 11'07. Like the echo of a village prayer cast into the mountains at dusk, this hand knotted wool vintage Turkish Oushak rug runner ca...