Mid-20th Century Turkish Rugs

Our sun-faded rugs are all one-of-a-kind, hand-knotted, 50-70 year-old vintage pieces. They each boast their own singular handmade aesthetic drawn from the centuries-old Turkish rug-...

Soft and in great condition, vintage turkish rug with a soft pile. made by hand This handmade rug features intricate patterns from traditional Turkish craftsmanship with a subtle, fa...

A vintage Turkish accent rug. Finely hand-knotted with even medium wool pile on cotton foundation. Very good condition. Sturdy and as clean as a brand new rug (deep washed profession...

A finely hand-knotted vintage Turkish rug from 1960s. The rug is made of medium wool pile on wool foundation. It is heavy and lays flat on the floor, in very good condition with no i...

Our sun-faded rugs are all one-of-a-kind, hand-knotted, 50-70 year-old vintage pieces. They each boast their own singular handmade aesthetic drawn from the centuries-old Turkish rug-...

A finely hand-knotted vintage Turkish rug from 1960s. The rug is made of medium wool pile on wool foundation. It is heavy and lays flat on the floor, in very good condition with no i...

Vintage oushak rug measures: 3'10'' x 5'10''.

Age: circa 1960 Material: Wool on Cotton Wear Guide: 1 Wear Notes: Vintage and antique rugs are by nature, pre-loved and may show evidence of their past. There are varying ...

Turkish rug 4'1'' x 11'11''.

Vintage Turkish rug 4' x 5'8''. With a light, earth-tone vintage look, this medium weave scatter shows a sandy ecru niche field with a central "tre...

Colors: cream, pale pink and turquoise symbols that are very faded but a fun detail to find Pile: flatweave Midcentury anatolian rug. Soft underfoot. Textural and simple in design....

A vintage Turkish flatweave Kilim runner handmade during the Mid-20th Century. Measures: 2' 7" x 12' 5".

A finely hand-knotted vintage Turkish rug from 1960s. The rug is made of medium wool pile on wool foundation. It is heavy and lays flat on the floor, in very good condition with no i...

Our sun-faded rugs are all one-of-a-kind, hand-knotted, 50-70 year-old vintage pieces. They each boast their own singular handmade aesthetic drawn from the centuries-old Turkish rug-...

This vintage 4x5 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 provenanc...

Vintage Herekeh rug measures 6'5'' x 9'6''. A lightly-toned, finely woven Turkish city small carpet in as strongly Kirman-influenced style. The sandy-straw semi-open field shows a co...

Pile: Medium, soft under foot. Good condition. Warm cream toned field with a black design and gray and pale blue accents. wear Notes: none Wear Guide: 1 Wear Notes: Vint...

Vintage Turkish rug 4'4'' x 7'9''.

A finely hand-knotted vintage Turkish rug from 1960s. The rug is made of medium wool pile on wool foundation. It is heavy and lays flat on the floor, in very good condition with no i...

nr. 569 - Vintage Turkish "cicim" in natural wools. It is difficult to find these rugs because they are used among nomads, in their tents, for their ow...

A vintage Turkish flatweave Kilim room size carpet handmade during the Mid-20th Century. Measures: 8' 4" x 12' 0".

A finely hand-knotted vintage Turkish rug from 1960s. The rug is made of medium wool pile on wool foundation. It is heavy and lays flat on the floor, in very good condition with no i...

Our sun-faded rugs are all one-of-a-kind, hand-knotted, 50-70 year-old vintage pieces. They each boast their own singular handmade aesthetic drawn from the centuries-old Turkish rug-...

A finely hand-knotted vintage Turkish rug from 1960s. The rug is made of medium wool pile on wool foundation. It is heavy and lays flat on the floor, in very good condition with no i...

Our sun-faded rugs are all one-of-a-kind, hand-knotted, 50-70 year-old vintage pieces. They each boast their own singular handmade aesthetic drawn from the c...

A Melas in prayer niche design from the Aegean coast, not an Oushak, with a very narrow pinched rust field within two reciprocal panel and Meander borders in beige and straw and ecru...

A vintage Turkish flatweave Kilim runner handmade during the Mid-20th Century. Measures: 2' 9" x 13' 5".

Vintage Turkish rug. Measures: 3.3'' x 5.9''.

Our sun-faded rugs are all one-of-a-kind, hand-knotted, 50-70 year-old vintage pieces. They each boast their own singular handmade aesthetic drawn from the centuries-old Turkish rug-...

A vintage Turkish flat-weave Kilim room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 10' 1" x 14' 0" Flat-weave rugs & carpets: Knotted pile rugs are just one small part of a vast universe of textile techniques suitable for heavy use. If you can imagine it, some weaver has tried it out. Pieces can be roughly divided into those reversible from the start and those never, or at least not initially, reversible. Thus, kilims are considered reversible, while everything else is not. Kilims are tapestry woven rugs with both sides the same, in either slit technique where colors change, or with various methods of avoiding slits. Slit tapestry weave goes back to ancient times and Coptic Egyptian weavers used it for ornaments on garments and larger wall hangings. Slits can be avoided by dovetailing of colors (warp sharing) or by interlocking the wefts. The Navajo weavers of the Southwest practice the first while the fine shawl weavers of Kashmir and Kerman employed the second. Interlocking produces a one-faced fabric, with smooth and rough, ridged faces. The typical Turkish, Caucasian, or Persian rustic kilim shows slits, but never long ones. Aubusson French carpets are also slit tapestries and the long color transitions are sewn up as part of the regular maintenance. Some kilims are very fine. The best antique urban Sehna (Senna) kilims on wool, cotton or silk warps approximate the comparable rugs in refinement and are the most desirable of all Persian kilims. Although the various flatweave techniques are usually expressed in geometric, simple, often repeating, patterns, Sehna kilims demonstrate that even the most intricate designs can be effectively rendered in flat-stich. The term ‘kilim’ has been extended to cover any pileless, weft-faced heavy textile. Thus, the sectioned and joined northeastern Persian horizontally striped wool rugs are called ‘kilims’. So are the plain-weave end finishes of pile rugs. All these are weft-faced, weft patterned flatweaves. These sectioned pieces are woven not on a frame loom, but one steadied by the weaver at one end and with the warps fastened down at the other. Only relatively recent have these tribal pieces become available. They are used as floorcoverings, hangings, room dividers, furniture covers. They are mostly bitonal in shades of natural dark brown and beige. Some more recent pieces show weaver innovations with ikat and moire effects. Work proceeds quickly and a skilled weaver can complete a thirty foot strip in almost no time. Wefts, the elements added as weaving progresses, play an essential part in what is a flatweave. The best-known example of an extra-weft, wrapping technique is on Caucasian and tribal Persian Soumaks, where a pattern weft wraps around the fixed warp, changing as weaving progresses. Soumaks can be large carpets, Kuba in the Caucasus, small bag faces (Caucasian and Persian Shah Savan saddle bags), or cover scatter rugs (Persian Afshars). The Soumak technique is fast, and a weaver can work much more quickly than tying knots. The left-over wefts are cut off on the back, so the front and back are initially different. As a Soumak on the floor gets used, these weft yarns wear away and the two sides converge although the exact texture remains distinct. There are other ways of pattern by weft. Often on smaller tribal pieces, the pattern weft(s) is (are) part of the weft structure, moving in an out, and holding the whole thing together. These wefts can be complementary or added (supplementary), continuous across the flatweave or cut off as they travel unneeded across the verso. Supplementary weft flatweaves are often very compact and substantial. The nomadic Turkmen and Balouch tribes employ both supplementary and complementary weft techniques on their pieces. Supplementary wefts are often raised on the recto (front) while complementary wefts are flat to the surface. Tribal Kurds employ this extra-wefting technique. The Balouch of Pakistan use complementary wefts almost exclusively on their small woven paraphernalia like salt bags. Flatweave techniques may be combined on a single piece. Afshar rugs employ plain-weave end strips, preceded by Soumak bands, with pile sections between. The large Bakhtiari saddlebags feature Soumak work, pile “islands” an areas of plain-weave. Qashqai rugs and kilims frequently displays checkerboard end strips in continuous, complementary wefting. Another distinct flatweave type is the jajim (jijim, cecim) in which a pattern is added with colored wefts as the weaving of the plain-weave ground progresses. Here the wefts are discontinuous and the pattern stands proud from the voided ground. Often made in two pieces on narrow looms and edge-sewn together, these may have geometric patterns. The term ‘jajim’ also refers to the assembled warp-faced strip and stripe covers from the Shah Savan of northwest Persia, the pattern is defined by warps alone, usually in plain stripes, but sometimes in designs of ladders, snakes, human figures and various animals. Here the color changing warps are continuous. Most are wool, a few are silk. Better to call these something else. Indian ‘Dhurries’ are all cotton kilims and ‘shatrangis’ employ wool wefts on cotton warps. Dhurries are slitless. The cotton texture is more appropriate to the humid and warm climate of the Indian subcontinent. Modern Dhurries...

A finely hand-knotted vintage Turkish rug from 1960s. The rug is made of medium wool pile on wool foundation. It is heavy and lays flat on the floor, in very good condition with no i...

Our sun-faded rugs are all one-of-a-kind, hand-knotted, 50-70 year-old vintage pieces. They each boast their own singular handmade aesthetic drawn from the centuries-old Turkish rug-...

A finely hand-knotted vintage Turkish rug from 1960s. The rug is made of medium wool pile on wool foundation. It is heavy and lays flat on the floor, in very good condition with no i...

Our sun-faded rugs are all one-of-a-kind, hand-knotted, 50-70 year-old vintage pieces. They each boast their own singular handmade aesthetic drawn from the centuries-old Turkish rug-...

Our sun-faded rugs are all one-of-a-kind, hand-knotted, 50-70 year-old vintage pieces. They each boast their own singular handmade aesthetic drawn from the centuries-old Turkish rug-...

Our sun-faded rugs are all one-of-a-kind, hand-knotted, 50-70 year-old vintage pieces. They each boast their own singular handmade aesthetic drawn from the centuries-old Turkish rug-...

Our sun-faded rugs are all one-of-a-kind, hand-knotted, 50-70 year-old vintage pieces. They each boast their own singular handmade aesthetic drawn from the centuries-old Turkish rug-...

This moderately finely woven eastern Turkish town carpet has a curved laurel leaf segment outlined open center set with small leafy sprays and extended lobed and arabesque edged corners, all on a creamy ivory ground with light brown decor...

Vintage Turkish Runner 3' x 9'2''. The crimson field is decorated with four floating rough oval medallions enclosing sand cartouches, with en su...

This western Turkish workshop carpet shows a well-distributed all-over Herati design detailed in brown and green on a beige ground. The main border features a palmette, rosette and l...

A vintage Turkish flatweave Kilim room Size carpet handmade during the Mid-20th Century. Measures: 10' 0" x 13' 0".

A finely hand-knotted vintage Central Anatolian rug from 1960s. The rug has even low wool pile on cotton foundation. It is heavy and lays flat on the floor, in very good condition wi...

Our sun-faded rugs are all one-of-a-kind, hand-knotted, 50-70 year-old vintage pieces. They each boast their own singular handmade aesthetic drawn from the centuries-old Turkish rug...

A vintage Turkish flatweave Kilim room size carpet handmade during the Mid-20th Century. Measures: 10' 2" x 13' 10".

Streakily abrashed overall and spot-worn, the coral tan field carries a strongly abrashed light blue to royal blue stepped and lobed and pendanted medallion with an ecru central Sub-...

A vintage Turkish flatweave Kilim large carpet handmade during the Mid-20th Century. Measures: 13' 4" x 16' 4".

A vintage Turkish flatweave Kilim room size carpet handmade during the Mid-20th Century. Measures: 8' 1" x 12' 5".

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...

A finely hand-knotted vintage Central Anatolian rug from 1960s. The rug has even low wool pile on cotton foundation. It is heavy and lays flat on the floor, in very good condition wi...

The sandy beige field displays two rust-detailed cruciform "Armenian church" medallions. The rust main border remnants display an octagon and barred 'X' pattern. The condition is fai...

This entirely plain field rustic carpet shows a wheat coloured expanse controlled by open fretwork beige corners. Abrashed light to medium-dark russet brown border with a star chain....

A finely hand-knotted vintage Central Anatolian rug from 1960s. The rug has even low wool pile on cotton foundation. It is heavy and lays flat on the floor, in very good condition wi...

Our sun-faded rugs are all one-of-a-kind, hand-knotted, 50-70 year-old vintage pieces. They each boast their own singular handmade aesthetic drawn from the centuries-old Turkish rug-...

This moderately woven urban eastern Turkish rug shows an open allover pattern of rosettes, oval lazy palmettes and stylized leafery, accented in straw yellow, green and brown, on a b...

This eastern Turkish town carpet show a small, doubly nested palmette medallion on a sand ground with vines and variously scaled palmettes swirling about. The brown border features p...

This attractive vintage Western Turkish carpet shows a tall, lenticular rust medallion decorated with staw and sand palmettes and vines, on an abrashed light sage green field, within...

A finely hand-knotted vintage Turkish rug from 1960s. The rug is made of medium wool pile on wool foundation. It is heavy and lays flat on the floor, in very good condition with no i...

Our sun-faded rugs are all one-of-a-kind, hand-knotted, 50-70 year-old vintage pieces. They each boast their own singular handmade aesthetic drawn from the centuries-old Turkish rug-...