Modern Turkish Rugs

Handwoven in wool, Rug & Kilim presents a 11x13 contemporary rug from their innovative new patchwork kilim collection. On the Design: This flat weave technique repurposes vintage...

Handwoven in wool, rug & Kilim presents a 4x8 contemporary rug from their innovative new patchwork kilim collection. On the Design: This flat weave technique repurposes vintage y...

A modern Turkish flat-weave Kilim oversize carpet handmade during the 21st century with a colorful horizontal pattern. A statement piece with its bright and whimsical colors. Meas...

Handwoven in wool, Rug & Kilim presents a 6x9 contemporary rug from their innovative new patchwork kilim collection. On the Design: This fla...

Rug & Kilim presents a contemporary 10’ circle rug from their innovative new patchwork kilim collection. On the design: This flat weave technique repurposes vintage yarns in poly...

Rug & Kilim presents a contemporary 10x14 rug from their innovative new patchwork kilim collection. On the Design: This flat weave technique repurposes vintage yarns in polychrom...

Rug & Kilim presents a contemporary 9x12 rug from their innovative new patchwork kilim collection. On the Design: This flat weave technique repurposes vintage yarns in polych...

A modern Turkish Kilim flat-weave rug handmade during the 21st century comprised of 3 columns with light beige backgrounds and brown stitching. Measures: 10' 4" x 14' 0".

A modern Turkish flat-weave Kilim large room size carpet handmade during the 21st century with a neutral pastel colored geometric large scale pattern resembling circus tents over a w...

Rug & Kilim presents an 8x12 Kilim from one of Josh Nazmiyal’s most cherished, creative new flat weave collections. On the Design: This is a new favorite from a special series, cra...

A whimsical vintage Turkish Anatolian 6' x 9' accent rug handmade during the mid-20th century with a colorful and repetitive diamond design predominantly in teal and turquoise. Me...

A contemporary Turkish flatweave Kilim large room size carpet handmade during the 21st century in shades of white and beige. This patchwork style rug consists of hand-weaving togethe...

A modern Turkish room size carpet handmade during the 21st century with a diamond cube pattern in neutral tones. Measures: 9' 10" x 12' 7".

A modern Turkish flat-weave Kilim room size rug handmade during the 21st century with a colorful horizontally striped pattern. A statement piece with its bright and whimsical colors....

Rug & Kilim presents a contemporary 4x5 rug from their innovative new patchwork kilim collection. On the Design: This flat weave technique repurposes vintage yarns in polychromat...

Handwoven in wool, rug & Kilim presents a 4x8 rug from their innovative new patchwork kilim collection. On the Design: This flat weave technique repurposes vintage yarns in polyc...

A contemporary Turkish flat-weave Kilim throw rug handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 3' 3" x 6' 5".

A vintage Turkish flat-weave Kilim room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 10' 7" x 13' 7" 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 modern Turkish flat-woven Kilim from the 21st century.

From our distinguished patchwork collection, a 10x14 contemporary kilim rug made by repurposing vintage yarns into new designs. Subtly inspired by classics, the rug enjoys a whole ...

A vintage Turkish flat-weave Kilim accent carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 5' 9" x 7' 10" Flat-weave Rugs & Carpets: Knotted pile rugs are just one small...

A modern Turkish flat-weave Kilim large room size carpet handmade during the 21st century with a horizontally striped pattern in soft, but colorful tones similar to the style of Amer...

A vintage Turkish flatweave Kilim room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century in shades of grey and silver. Measures: 8' 1" x 12' 8".

A modern Turkish flatweave Kilim accent rug handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 6'1" x 9'3".

A vintage Turkish flatweave Kilim room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century with a vertically striped multicolored pattern including s...

Handwoven in wool, Rug & Kilim presents a 4x4 contemporary square rug from their innovative new patchwork kilim collection. On the Design: This flat weave technique repurpose...

A modern Turkish flatweave Kilim large room size carpet handmade during the 21st century with a geometric design in red and brown. Measures: 9' 8" x 13' 10".

A vintage hand-knotted Turkish area rug re-dyed in gray color. Finely hand knotted, low wool pile on cotton foundation. Deep washed. Sturdy and can be used on a high traffic area, su...

Handwoven in wool, Rug & Kilim presents a 3x5 contemporary rug from their innovative new patchwork kilim collection. On the Design: This...

A vintage Turkish Anatolian rug handmade during the mid-20th century with a geometric stepped design in teal. Measures: 3' 1" x 7' 3".

A modern Turkish Kilim flat-weave room size rug handmade during the 21st century with a geometric pattern in cream, grey, and black. Measures: 10' 7" x 13' 8".

Rug & Kilim presents a contemporary 9x12 rug from their innovative new patchwork kilim collection. On the Design: This flat weave techn...

Handwoven in wool, Rug & Kilim presents a 6x9 contemporary rug from their innovative new patchwork kilim collection. On the Design: This flat w...

The Rapture Collection is the exception to our hand-woven only rule. Woven Concepts purist philosophy focuses on the creation of hand-made, high-end rugs. The Rapture Collection rugs...

The Rapture Collection is the exception to our hand-woven only rule. Woven Concepts purist philosophy focuses on the creation of hand-made, high-end rugs. The Rapture Collection rugs...

A vintage Turkish Anatolian small throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 3' 5" x 4' 11".

A vintage Turkish Anatolian accent rug handmade during the mid-20th century with a modern and colorful design in jewel tones. Measures: 5' 0" x 8' 1".

Ege No 3 kilim rug is part of a series of kilims that reflect an admiration for the visual and emotional expressiveness of the sea surface, with its fluid movements, and hues of colo...

Taurus Collection modern striped goat hair rug by Doris Leslie Blau Size: 4'0" × 6'3" (121 × 190 cm) Nowadays contemporary beautiful rugs are considered to be one of the most diverse...

Rug & Kilim presents a contemporary 13x19 rug from their innovative new patchwork Kilim collection. Further On the Design: This flat weave technique...

A vintage Turkish Art Deco accent rug handmade during the mid-20th century with a contemporary pattern in yellow and dark blue. Measures: 6' 7" x 9' 10".

The Rapture Collection is the exception to our hand-woven only rule. Woven Concepts purist philosophy focuses on the creation of hand-made, high-end rugs. The Rapture Collection rugs...

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

A modern Turkish oversize 16' x 19' flat-weave Kilim rug in square rug format handmade during the 21st century. A statement piece with its bright and whimsical colors. Measures: 1...

A modern Turkish flat-weave Kilim accent rug handmade during the 21st century with a contemporary design in black, charcoal, and grey. Measures: 7' 0" x 9' 6".

The Rapture Collection is the exception to our hand-woven only rule. Woven Concepts purist philosophy focuses on the creation of hand-made, high-end rugs. The Rapture Collection rugs...

Our over-dyed rugs are all hand-knotted vintage pieces that are recreated in our workshop to cater to a wider range of interior design choices from modern to coastal, from industrial...

Our over-dyed rugs are all hand-knotted vintage pieces that are recreated in our workshop to cater to a wider range of interior design choices from modern to coastal, from industrial...

Our over-dyed rugs are all hand-knotted vintage pieces that are recreated in our workshop to cater to a wider range of interior design choices from modern to coastal, from industrial...

Our over-dyed rugs are all hand-knotted vintage pieces that are recreated in our workshop to cater to a wider range of interior design choices from modern to coastal, from industrial...

Rug & Kilim presents an 8x12 Kilim from one of Josh Nazmiyal’s most cherished, creative new flat weave collections. On the Design: This is a new favorite from a special series, c...

A modern Turkish flat-woven Kilim room size rug handmade during the 21st century in a patchwork style. The contemporary design utilizes horizontal stripes in multiple vibrant colors ...

The Rapture Collection is the exception to our hand-woven only rule. Woven Concepts purist philosophy focuses on the creation of hand-made, high-end rugs. The Rapture Collection rugs...

A handmade vintage Turkish Sparta rug that has been over dyed charcoal black and given a distressed appeal with hand knotted raised plush piles to form the quirky offset medallion an...

Turkish Oushak Runner Handmade Rug Cream Blue Pink Floral Design 2'9" x 9'9" This exquisite Turkish Oushak runner rug, measuring 2'9" x 9'9", features a delicate blue and pink flora...

The Rapture Collection is the exception to our hand-woven only rule. Woven Concepts purist philosophy focuses on the creation of hand-made, high-end rugs. The Rapture Collection rugs...

The Rapture Collection is the exception to our hand-woven only rule. Woven Concepts purist philosophy focuses on the creation of hand-made, high-end rugs. The Rapture Collection rugs...

Turkish Oushak Rug Handwoven Wool Blue Floral Design 8'2" x 9'8" This elegant blue Turkish Oushak rug is a meticulously handwoven masterpiece, crafted by skilled artisans using age-...

Rug & Kilim presents a contemporary 3x25 oversized runner from their innovative new patchwork kilim collection. On the Design: This flat weave technique repurposes vintage ya...

Rug & Kilim presents a contemporary 5’ circle rug from their innovative new patchwork kilim collection. Further on the design: This flat weave technique repurposes vintage yarns in...