Modern Turkish Rugs

A stunning modern Turkish Tulu rug that is sure to add a touch of warmth and luxury to any space. This rug has been meticulously handwoven using traditional techniques, ensuring its ...

A vintage Turkish runner rug re-dyed in fuchsia pink color for contemporary interiors. Finely hand knotted, low wool pile on cotton foundation. Professionally washed. Sturdy and ca...

A hand-knotted contemporary Turkish rug. This modern rug has even medium wool pile on wool foundation. It is made of premium hand-spun sheep and natural dyes, ie. plant based non c...

100% Hand-Spun Wool of finest quality. These hand-knotted rugs are produced from scratch in our atelier located in Central Anatolia, famous for being one of the world's oldest handma...

A vintage Turkish flat-weave Kilim accent rug handmade during the mid-20th century with an asymmetrical horizontally striped design in shades of red and black. Measures: 5' 9" x 7...

Rug & Kilim presents a contemporary 8x10 rug from their innovative new patchwork kilim collection. On the Design: This flat weave technique repurposes vintage yarns in polych...

A vintage Central Anatolian area rug re-dyed in charcoal gray color for contemporary interiors. Finely hand knotted, low wool pile on cotton foundation. Professionally washed. Sturdy...

This hand-knotted wool rug features a stunning contemporary Shag Moroccan Style. It has a beautifully geometric abstract design with a beige field. Crafted with the utmost precision,...

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 Relief rug is hand-knotted, and made from the finest hand-carded, hand-spun undyed wool of grey and beige tones. Many of the rugs made in the villages surrounding the city of Shi...

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...

This Turkish oushak rug is a stunning piece of art that has been handwoven using traditional techniques by skilled artisans. The rug features intricate patterns and a soft color pale...

Narrow and long tone on tone Turkish Oushak runner. Small hints of green that can barely be seen, circa mid-20th century, measures: 2'8" x 13'5".

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

A vintage handmade Turkish area rug re-dyed in light blue color. Measures: 6.8 x 9.7 ft. Finely hand knotted, low wool pile on white cotton foundation. Deep washed. Sturdy and can be...

A vintage Turkish area rug re-dyed in gray color for contemporary interiors. Measures: 6.5 x 9.7 Ft. Finely hand knotted, low wool pile on cotton foundation. Professionally washed. ...

Yakamoz No 3 kilim rug is part of a series of kilims that take their inspiration from the poetry of light reflections on the sea surface. The abstract patterns, which are reminiscent...

A contemporary Turkish Tulu square room size carpet handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 12' 3" x 13' 5"

81102 Modern Blue Earth-Tone Geometric Kilim Rug, 08'11 x 11'10. Step aboard into coastal chic living with our exquisite handwoven modern geometric kilim rug, where nautical charm me...

Handwoven in wool, Rug & Kilim presents a 4x5 contemporary rug from their innovative new patchwork kilim collection. On the Design: This flat weave technique repurposes vinta...

This Turkish oushak rug is a stunning piece of art that has been handwoven using traditional techniques by skilled artisans. The rug features intricate patterns and a soft color pale...

A modern Turkish flat-weave Kilim large room size carpet handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 13' 2" x 16' 6" 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...

A contemporary Turkish large room size carpet handmade during the 21st century inspired by Moroccan carpets from the mid-20th century period. Measures: 13' 9" x 16' 2".

60801 Vintage Turkish Striped Kilim Rug, 08'04 x 10'07. Infusing a nuanced touch of Wabi-Sabi allure into classic sophistication, this handwoven wool vintage Turkish striped kilim ru...

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 polyc...

52226, vintage Oushak pillow cover with soft muted colors. For a polished look on beds, sofas or chairs, this vintage Oushak pillow cover helps ...

Rug & Kilim presents a contemporary 4x8 rug from their innovative new patchwork kilim collection. Further On the Design: This flat weave technique repurposes vintage yarns in polychr...

A luxurious 9x11 contemporary rug from Rug & Kilim’s New & Modern Collection. Hand knotted in wool and encased in a border made with natural goat hair in the black accents, the rug r...

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...

Hand woven in a wool flat weave, this 10x13 modern Kilim rug originating from Turkey, uses Kendir, a kind of all-natural "bast" fiber similar to jute, making it an exceptional sustai...

Handwoven in wool, Rug & Kilim presents a spacious 9x12 contemporary rug from their innovative new patchwork kilim collection. On the design: T...

A contemporary Turkish flatweave Kilim runner handmade during the 21st century in shades of white and beige. This patchwork style rug consists o...

Hand woven in a wool flat weave, this 10x13 patchwork Kilim rug from Rug & Kilim uses Kendir, a kind of all-natural "bast" fiber similar to jute, making it an exceptional sustainable...

A modern Turkish Anatolian room size carpet handmade during the 21st century. This contemporary borderless Turkish rug features 7 leafy vines over an aubergine (eggplant) purple colo...

This authentic hand-woven goat hair kilim showcases the artistry of traditional tribal craftsmanship, featuring a bold striped composition, natural variations, and timeworn patch rep...

Rug & Kilim takes pride in presenting its artistic vision of patchwork kilim that reimagines vintage yarns into unique pieces of art. This 9 x 12 collectible features a striated patt...

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...

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 vintag...

A modern Turkish flat-weave Kilim large room size carpet handmade during the 21st century with a colorful geometric pattern resembling interconnected serrated edged vases in an abstr...

Handwoven in wool, Rug & Kilim presents a 7x10 contemporary rug from their innovative new patchwork kilim collection. On the Design: This flat ...

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 p...

Rug & Kilim takes pride in presenting its artistic vision of patchwork kilim that reimagines vintage yarns into unique pieces of art. This 9 x 12 collectible features a striated patt...

Handwoven in wool, this 6x8 Kilim is from an inventive new contemporary flat weave collection by Rug & Kilim. On the Design: This modern take on classic panel-weaving enjoys a fab...

A vintage Turkish flat-weave Kilim room-size carpet in square format handmade during the mid-20th century with a colorful contemporary pattern in a tribal manner. The overall effect ...

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...

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 Patchwork style accent carpet handmade using vintage Turkish flat-weave Kilim rugs from the mid-20th century that have been overdyed red and stitched together. Measures: 5' 2" x 7' 2" 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...

A modern Turkish flatweave Kilim room size carpet handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 11' 7" x 14' 2"

A modern Turkish flatweave Kilim small runner handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 2' 4" x 6' 3".

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 brand new hand-knotted Turkish rug with excellent, lustrous, soft medium wool pile. The rug features a geometric latch-hook medallion design and a border decorated with half latch ...

Yakamoz No 2 kilim rug is part of a series of kilims that take their inspiration from the poetry of light reflections on the sea surface. The abstract patterns, which are reminiscent...

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 vintag...

Turkish Oushak Rug Handwoven Wool Red Multicolor Design Rug 6'7" x 8'11" This beautiful Turkish Oushak rug showcases a vibrant red and multicolor floral design, meticulously handwov...

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

Elevate your living space with the exquisite charm of this new modern hand-knotted Moroccan berber beni ourain rug, crafted with precision and care from 100% wool. Combining the allu...

A modern Turkish Patchwork style flatweave throw rug handmade during the 21st century using remnants of vintage Turkish flatweaves from the mid-20th century. Measures: 3' 1" x 4' 2".

51160, distressed vintage Turkish Sivas rug with modern style. Displaying a simplistic style and subtle color palette, this distre...

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...

A modern Turkish large carpet with tassels and braided fringes. Handmade during the 21st century, this carpet is inspired by vintage Moroccan carpets from the Mid-20th Century period...