Oushak Turkish Rugs
OUSHAK STYLE
Turkish rugs are as widely loved today as they were in the 13th century, and antique and vintage Oushak rugs and carpets are known specifically for their bold geometric patterns and fine quality. With a name derived from the town of Uşak, Turkey, in western Anatolia, the Oushak textile style — also spelled Ushak — originated in the 15th-century Ottoman Empire, but its aesthetic has influenced weaving around the world, especially through the export of rugs to Europe.
The distinctive Oushak “medallion” pattern has two types of rounded shapes alternating against a rich red or blue background created with natural dyes, while the elaborate “star” pattern involves large eight-pointed shapes in diagonal rows alternating with diamonds. Traditionally, the edges and empty spaces are filled with arabesque details or floral motifs. Both patterns can repeat in infinite directions, allowing for versatility in diverse sizes of hand-knotted authentic Oushak carpets, wall hangings and rugs. It’s believed that similar Iranian designs inspired the artistry of Turkish weavers, possibly through commissions by Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror.
While production of Oushak rugs accelerated for an international audience, they also maintained domestic popularity, including covering the floors of palaces and mosques. Owing to their deep colors and exemplary construction, Oushak area rugs woven by hand became status symbols abroad, with Henry VIII depicted standing astride an Oushak rug in a 16th-century portrait by Hans Holbein the Younger. The rugs and carpets made for export had rougher weaves while European copies proliferated as demand expanded into the 19th century. And beyond the authenticity of antique and vintage rugs in general, the geometric styles of Oushak rugs are appealing to interior designers because they work so well in today's homes.
The market has changed with a global increase in machine-fabricated carpets, yet handmade designs continue to be produced in Uşak with contemporary rug companies like Kirkit working with skilled artisans in the area.
Find vintage Oushak rugs and carpets, folk art and other Oushak furniture on 1stDibs.
Style: Oushak
Color: Brown
Oversized Antique Oushak Carpet
Located in New York, NY
The rich Turkey red field displays five complete and two half columns of the Smyrna Yaprak and palmette pattern in detail shades of green and light blue. The tonally en suite border ...
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Early 20th Century Turkish Oushak Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Turkish Oushak Carpet, Allover Field
Located in New York, NY
The light taupe ground of this Turkish Oushak carpet presents six columns each of ten floating, alternating light blue, teal, and red leaves with a narrow, plain, black string border.
Category
1930s Turkish Vintage Oushak Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Ararat Rugs the Sailer Anchor Carpet 17th Century Anatolian Revival Natural Dyed
By Ararat Rugs
Located in Tokyo, JP
The source of carpet comes from the book Orient Star – A Carpet Collection, E. Heinrich Kirchheim, Hali Publications Ltd, 1993 nr.198. This is a dramatic and unique field design 16th...
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21st Century and Contemporary Turkish Oushak Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool, Natural Fiber, Organic Material
6x10.3 Ft Unique Vintage Handmade Turkish Rug, Distressed Wool & Cotton Carpet
Located in Philadelphia, PA
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...
Category
Mid-20th Century Turkish Oushak Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool, Cotton
6.6x9 Ft Hand Knotted Vintage Oushak Area Rug, Traditional 1960s Floor Covering
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A finely hand-knotted vintage Turkish carpet from 1960s featuring an elegant medallion design. The rug has even low wool pile on cotton foundation. It is heavy and lays flat on the f...
Category
Mid-20th Century Turkish Oushak Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool, Cotton
Decorative Hand Knotted Vintage Turkish Area Rug with Medallion Design
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A vintage Turkish area rug. Finely hand-knotted with even medium wool pile on cotton foundation. Very good condition. Measures: 6 x 8.7 ft.
Sturdy and as clean as a brand new rug (d...
Category
Mid-20th Century Turkish Oushak Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool, Cotton
2.6x12.2 Ft One-of-a-kind Turkish Runner, Ca 1960, Wool Handmade Rug for Hallway
Located in Philadelphia, PA
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-...
Category
Mid-20th Century Turkish Oushak Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool, Cotton
6.6x9.8 Ft HandKnotted Vintage Turkish Area Rug with Medallion Design, Wool Pile
Located in Philadelphia, PA
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-...
Category
Mid-20th Century Turkish Oushak Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool, Cotton
Long Vintage Tone on Tone Oushak Runner
Located in New York, NY
This good pile, borderless rustic Turkish runner displays an abrashed small lozenge pattern on a rust red to light buff field.
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1960s Turkish Vintage Oushak Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Stunning Antique Turkish Oushak Mansion Carpet, Rust Field, Pale Green Borders
Located in New York, NY
This large West Anatolian workshop carpet displays an in-and-out somewhat stylized palmette design, supplemented by cloudbands and stiff vinery, all on the rust field, with details in cream, straw and burnt salmon. Pale green border with quatrefoils enclosing petal palmettes and lesser rosettes. Coarse weave, good condition. Large scale drawing...
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1920s Turkish Vintage Oushak Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
3.4x5.7 Ft Traditional Hand Made Vintage Oushak Wool Rug, Soft Earthy Colors
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine vintage hand knotted Turkish Oushak rug from the 1950s. Measures: 3.4 x 5.7 Ft.
Finely hand knotted with medium wool pile. The rug is in good condition, sturdy and clean.
I...
Category
Mid-20th Century Turkish Oushak Turkish Rugs
Materials
Cotton, Wool
Shabby Chic Antique Turkish Oushak Rug, Light Red and Rust All-Over Field
Located in New York, NY
This rather distressed anatolian town carpet shows a light red and rust field with an all-over Persian Shah 'Abbas palmette design, with a dark border of palmettes and forked acanthu...
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1940s Turkish Vintage Oushak Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Turkish Melas Prayer Rug, circa 1950s
Located in New York, NY
A classic 20th century Melas rug in a prayer design with a pinched rust field with small and large serrated lozenge designs, ivory tree spandrel panel and a straw border of serrated ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Turkish Oushak Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Oushak Runner, Mid-20th Century
Located in New York, NY
This vintage runner is a simple study in medium brown and khaki with shadow details in golden tan. The condition is low and somewhat distressed.
Category
Mid-20th Century Turkish Oushak Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Square Oushak Carpet, Pink Field
Located in New York, NY
The rose shrimp field displays a coral stepped diamond center piece with enclosed pomegranates and a central square with geometric pendants. The field is neatly filled with geometric...
Category
1920s Turkish Vintage Oushak Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Light Palette Oushak Runner
Located in New York, NY
This solidly woven runner shows a sandy ecru field with arabesques and small rosettes and palmettes in an allover, repeating pattern. The tonally en suite...
Category
1950s Turkish Vintage Oushak Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Square Antique Turkish Oushak Carpet
Located in New York, NY
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...
Category
Early 20th Century Turkish Oushak Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Lightly Distressed Oushak Rug, Soft Red Field, Baby Blue Borders, Shabby Chic
Located in New York, NY
The soft red field supports a double rosette wreath lozenge medallion in the Bergama Turkish style, corners anchored by rosettes, and a "Transylvanian" cartouche border in ivory and ...
Category
1940s Turkish Vintage Oushak Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Turkish Oushak Rug, Coral & Salmon Field, Brown Borders
Located in New York, NY
Abrashed coral to rose curvilinear corners position the abrashed salmon field with a red acanthus edged medallion. Border of floating rosettes and trumpet leaf bunches. Coarse weave,...
Category
1940s Turkish Vintage Oushak Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
1930s Antique Turkish Oushak Rug, Red Field, Floral Multicolored Borders
Located in New York, NY
The open tomato red field displays a central bouquet detailed in powder, tangerine, pale green and red, with stem-and-leaf flowers diagonally placed in the corners. Powder ground, pa...
Category
1930s Turkish Vintage Oushak Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Colorful Turkish Oushak Carpet, Allover Field, Colorful Palette
Located in New York, NY
The sand field is covered by a busy rendition in five columns of the (very) ragged palmette and (very active) Yaprak diamond pattern, with rust-red, yellow and green accents. Rosette...
Category
1910s Turkish Vintage Oushak Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Oushak Carpet, Peach Tones
Located in New York, NY
A small octogram medallion is centrally placed on the sand field with quarter ragged palmettes in the corners and a geometric flower clump at each end. Very simplified palmettes in t...
Category
Early 20th Century Turkish Oushak Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Neutral Oushak Rug, circa 1930s
Located in New York, NY
This sandy field western Turkish long rug displays a field pattern of geometric flowers and straight, angled vines detailed in light brown, set within sand 17th century style "Transy...
Category
1930s Turkish Vintage Oushak Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Distressed Antique Turkish Oushak Carpet, Red and Gold
Located in New York, NY
Distressed with areas of foundation showing, the Turkey red Sub-field displays a yellow palmette medallion with tripled pendants
enclosed within a yellow field in a "bookcover" layo...
Category
Early 1900s Turkish Antique Oushak Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Distressed Red Oushak Rug, Red Field, Taupe Outer Field
Located in New York, NY
The distressed red field shows escutcheon pendants and sharp spikes, encloses an ivory three cartouche "medallion". The red border shows octagons and botehs in a Konya style.
Category
1950s Turkish Vintage Oushak Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Geometric Antique Turkish Oushak Rug, Seafoam & Hot Pink Accents, Brown Palette
Located in New York, NY
The camel brown field is mostly covered by a beveled straw panel enclosing two beveled squares. Ashiks decorate the field ends.
Ecru main border with floating divided small diamond...
Category
1940s Turkish Vintage Oushak Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Fine Antique Red Oushak Carpet, circa 1900s
Located in New York, NY
This Oushak carpet is very bold and direct, with an abrashed garnet red field centered by a giant pointed cross medallion positioned by huge, hooked volutes devolving from the nearly...
Category
Early 1900s Turkish Antique Oushak Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Turkish Oushak Rug, Red, Gray and Brown Field, Even Wear
Located in New York, NY
An 8-lobe brown medallion is set on an open red-brown field with teal corners with flower and double boteh-leaf designs. Brown border of small palmettes and interlinked chain-like vi...
Category
1920s Turkish Vintage Oushak Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Light Brown Turkish Oushak Rug with Medallion, Cream Field
Located in New York, NY
On a sandy cream field, a pendanted medallion with a leafy edge with a twisting, serpentine wreath within is centered by a pale green roundel. Similar corners with ivory square quatr...
Category
1940s Turkish Vintage Oushak Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Turkish Oushak Rug, Straw and Brown Field
Located in New York, NY
Four botehs float in each brownish red corner while the sandy-straw open field is centered by a dark brown octogramme medallion with double boteh pendants. Red-brown star and palmett...
Category
1940s Turkish Vintage Oushak Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Tone on Tone Turkish Oushak Rug, Melas Style, circa 1940s
Located in New York, NY
This oushak scatter rug shows a narrow field in light brown and cream, embedded in a double, en suite border of fringed lappets in dark brown, light brown and ecru. Wool foundation, moderate weave. A cool rug...
Category
1940s Turkish Vintage Oushak Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Turkish Sivas Rug, Eggplant and Slate Allover Field, circa 1930s
Located in New York, NY
The somewhat worn slate eggplant field displays an overall rounded vine, forked acanthus and four flowers around concave small open diamonds allover pattern all in three full columns...
Category
1930s Turkish Vintage Oushak Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Abrashed Vintage Oushak Runner, Neutral Tones
Located in New York, NY
The sandy straw field displays a pole medallion of six ivory cartouche medallions, with elaborate flower finials, set within a buff border of ragged rosettes and green split leaves.
Category
1950s Turkish Vintage Oushak Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Turkish Oushak Rug, Sage Green Field, Light Pink Borders, circa 1920s
Located in New York, NY
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...
Category
1920s Turkish Vintage Oushak Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
1900s Rare Antique Turkish Oushak Carpet, Rusty Red Allover Field, Green Borders
Located in New York, NY
In a loose version of the popular Harshang allover pattern, there are five implicit columns of ragged palmettes, fringed rosettes and textured plaquettes on the rust-red field, all a...
Category
Early 1900s Turkish Antique Oushak Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Borderless Oushak Rug
Located in New York, NY
The buff-beige field of this west Anatolian large rug display a 15th century "Small Pattern Holbein" design of alternating columns of octagons and elaborated cruciform’s, all detaile...
Category
1930s Turkish Vintage Oushak Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Turkish Neutral Oushak Carpet, circa 1920s
Located in New York, NY
The oatmeal field on this carpet is decorated by five, lobed, slate medallions with hexagonal sand centers and flower in-fills. The slate border features octogrammes, shield palmette...
Category
1920s Turkish Vintage Oushak Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Red & Gold Antique Turkish Oushak Rug with an Allover Field, circa 1920s
Located in New York, NY
The Turkey red field of this Smyrna-style carpet displays three alternating columns of ragged palmettes and diamond-shaped Yaprak (leaf) medallions accented with botehs. The matching...
Category
1920s Turkish Vintage Oushak Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Oushak Rug, Muted Colors, Silky Pile
Located in New York, NY
The pile is silky, the colors are muted and the design is semi-geometric with a 12-lobed faceted medallion and a sandy ivory progressive flower border. The condition is fairly good, ...
Category
1930s Turkish Vintage Oushak Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Oushak Rug, Colorful Field, Center Medallion, Gray Field
Located in New York, NY
A fat-lobed field in grey-celadon with ivory end sections, fills the narrow pale pink palmette and leaf border. Almost-boteh leaves on field sides.
Category
1940s Turkish Vintage Oushak Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Tribal Turkish Red Oushak Rug, Lightly Distressed, Fragmented
Located in New York, NY
Reduced at one end with only half of the third joined hexagon remaining. The red field is mirrored in the center panels with their long-armed cross patterns. Straw accents. Cool rug!
Category
1940s Turkish Vintage Oushak Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
1940s Antique Turkish Oushak Carpet, Allover Beige Field & Light Blue Accents
Located in New York, NY
The light brown and beige field displays two columns of elaborate ragged palmettes and a central line of Yaprak (leaf") diamonds., in the 19th century Smyrna style. Tonally en suite ...
Category
1940s Turkish Vintage Oushak Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Oushak Runner, circa 1930s
Located in New York, NY
The camel-tone field displays a column of floating layered octofoil rosettes within a green border of four bud square star modules characteristic of certain central Anatolian Konya r...
Category
Early 20th Century Turkish Oushak Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Turkish Oushak Rug, Light Brown Open Field, circa 1920s
Located in New York, NY
The light brown, totally unobstructed field is defined only by triangular ecru floral corners, and is framed by a particularly wide ecru main border with grass green stems, buds and ...
Category
1920s Turkish Vintage Oushak Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Oushak Rug, Brown Field, Light Blue Borders and Motifs
Located in New York, NY
The brown field neatly displays an alternating five column pattern featuring ragged palmettes and Yaprak (Leaf) lozenges in the 18th century Smyrna manner. Very light blue...
Category
1920s Turkish Vintage Oushak Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
1920s Antique Pink Oushak Carpet with a Curvilinear Medallion
Located in New York, NY
The pink field features a round nested wreath medallion with foliate/floriate forms, all in shades of brown and straw. Border with three petal palmettes and tilted petal palmettes. E...
Category
1920s Turkish Vintage Oushak Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Bright Oushak Rug, circa 1920s
Located in New York, NY
The strongly abrashed red brown Sub field displays a pale green and salmon hexagonal medallion with tall leafy extenders. The ivory main border repeats "for flower" ties. An attracti...
Category
1920s Turkish Vintage Oushak Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Fine Antique Rustic Oushak Rug, Warm Color Palette
Located in New York, NY
This Anatolian rustic scatter borrows from the Classic Anatolian design vocabulary: striped border, panels at the pale straw field ends. A Bergama-style flower outer border. Botehs o...
Category
1930s Turkish Vintage Oushak Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
1920s Classic Antique Turkish Oushak Rug, Neutral Monochromatic Palette
Located in New York, NY
Softly toned, nearly monochrome coarse weave city carpet with a near shadow medallion design. Beige with light brown accents overall. Fairly good condition.
Category
1920s Turkish Vintage Oushak Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Late 19th Century Antique Ghiordes Carpet, circa 1880s
Located in New York, NY
Ghiordes is near to Oushak and influences pass in both directions. This attractive west Anatolian workshop carpet displays a relatively small ivory field decorated with highly abstra...
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1880s Turkish Antique Oushak Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Subdued Antique Oushak Carpet, circa 1910s
Located in New York, NY
This west Anatolian town carpet is a subdued study in ivory, and very pale green. The cream subfield is edged with small flowers and centres a lobed, pendanted and pointed medallion....
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1910s Turkish Vintage Oushak Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Square Turkish Oushak Carpet, Pink Allover Field, Mustard & Green Border
Located in New York, NY
The boiled shrimp field displays a variable array of dark brown open lozenges and diamonds, and V-shapes, with a central ragged palmette and further rayed lozenges, and a scatter fil...
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Early 1900s Turkish Antique Oushak Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Oushak Carpet, Salmon Field, circa 1900
Located in New York, NY
The salmon open field is centered by a small hexagonal green hook edged medallion which matches the field corners. The green border displays octogramme ros...
Category
Early 1900s Turkish Antique Oushak Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Red Oushak Large Carpet, circa 1910s
Located in New York, NY
This turkey red west Anatolian large workshop carpet displays an open arrangement of stems, leaves, split acanthus and palmettes, all centred around a double vase composition, detail...
Category
1910s Turkish Vintage Oushak Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Outstanding Excellent Condition Antique Oushak Carpet
Located in New York, NY
This is an outstanding Oushak in excellent pile, with a brisk Turkey red open field showcasing a jagged lime and gold pendanted medallion with tonally matching double corners. The ve...
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Early 20th Century Turkish Oushak Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Oushak Carpet, Green Field, Soft Tones, circa 1920s
Located in New York, NY
This generally soft-toned west Turkish square town carpet features an open grey-green field with an ivory medallion and corners. The sand main border shows bottehs and related flowers.
Category
1920s Turkish Vintage Oushak Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Fine Antique Turkish Oushak Rug, Red Outer Field, Bookcover Design
Located in New York, NY
Although somewhat worn, this Oushak is better woven than most. The red field displays a giant ivory medallion with four scrolling field intrusions, giving the effect of giant blades....
Category
1910s Turkish Vintage Oushak Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Turkish Oushak Rug. 12 ft 6 in x 15 ft 2 in
Located in New York, NY
Warm Decorative Large Rustic Antique Tribal Abrash Turkish Oushak Rug, Country of Origin: Turkey, Circa date: 1900. Size: 12 ft 6 in x 15 ft 2 in (3.81 m x 4.62 m)
Category
20th Century Turkish Oushak Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Oushak turkish rugs for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Oushak turkish rugs for sale on 1stDibs. Many of these items were first offered in the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artisans have continued to produce works inspired by this style. If you’re looking to add vintage turkish rugs created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include rugs and carpets, folk art, more furniture and collectibles and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with fabric, wool and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Oushak turkish rugs made in a specific country, there are Asia, West Asia, and Caucasus pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original turkish rugs, popular names associated with this style include Keivan Woven Arts, Ararat Rugs, Ashly Fine Rugs, and Mehraban Rugs. It’s true that these talented designers have at times inspired knockoffs, but our experienced specialists have partnered with only top vetted sellers to offer authentic pieces that come with a buyer protection guarantee. Prices for turkish rugs differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $100 and tops out at $250,000 while the average work can sell for $4,502.
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