Rustic Turkish Rugs

A one of a kind hand knotted vintage Central Anatolian rug. Measures: 4 x 7.8 Ft Soft, medium wool pile. Very good condition. It has been washed professionally and ready to be used...

This bold wool kilim is a handwoven masterpiece woven in Moldova circa 1900. The design features a medallion woven on a deep blue-green background in accents of beige, olive green an...

"This fine wool flatwoven runner rug is a traditional vintage Kilim runner. Woven by hand in the early 21st century, circa 2010. The central design has been woven on a cream backgrou...

The rug is hand knotted with sheep's wool, has soft medium pile, in good condition and sturdy. Its soft and warm color palette has a vibrancy to it that could be a great complementar...

This bold wool rug is an excellent example of runner rugs woven in the early 20th century, circa 1930. The central design features a trio of medallions delicately woven in red and bl...

This fantastic Turkish Kilim was woven in the 20th Century and features a beautiful tribal design. Decorated with motifs and medallions which have been woven intricately, this piece ...

A one-of-a-kind Turkish Sivas runner from the early 20th century. Measures: 3'5'' x 12'5''.

A sophisticated vintage mid-20th century Persian Shahsevan Kilim runner woven of un-dyed natural brown wools, giving the rug a variegated color p...

53915 Vintage Red Turkish Oushak Rug Runner, 03'02 x 11'05. Please note this listing is for one piece. There is a matching piece available adds to its rarity. Hailing from the Oushak...

53913 Vintage Red Turkish Oushak Rug, 03'03 x 12'01. Please note this listing is for one piece. There is a matching piece available adds to its rarity. Turkish Oushak carpet runners,...

Discover the elegance of our exquisite midcentury rug featuring a captivating design and vibrant colors, including red, blue, yellow, green, pink, and orange. This hand-knotted maste...

Beautiful 19th century rug with nice design and beautiful natural colors, entirely hand knotted with wool velvet on cotton foundation. ✨✨✨ "Experience the epitome of luxury and craf...

Very beautiful late 19th century rug with tribal geometrical design and nice natural colors with red, blue, green and yellow, entirely and finely hand knotted with wool velvet on woo...

Beautiful mid century tribal Hamadan rug with nice Herati design and beautiful colors, entirely hand knotted with wool velvet on cotton foundation.

Late 20th century Turkish Yagcibedir runner with nice design and beautiful colors, entirely hand knotted with wool velvet on wool foundation.

Nice mid-20th century rug with beautiful geometrical design and nice colors with blue, red and green, entirely hand knotted with wool velvet on cotton foundation.

Very beautiful midcentury rug with nice geometrical tribal design and beautiful colors, entirely hand knotted with wool velvet on cotton foundation Size: 160 x 218 cm.

Midcentury tribal rug with beautiful geometrical design and nice colors, entirely hand knotted with wool velvet on cotton foundation.

50572 Distressed Vintage Turkish Sivas Rug, ​04'07 x 07'07. ​Get ready to swoon over this woolen wonder. With its rustic sensibility, it's a rugged meets refined made made in heaven....

50525 Vintage Turkish Sivas Rug, 04'10 x 07'06. Rugged beauty meets casual elegance in this hand knotted wool vintage Turkish Sivas rug. The romantic botanical design and warm, dream...

73906 Rustic Vintage Turkish Sivas Rug, 04'05 x 06'11. Rendered in variegated shades of red, purple, gold, tan, beige, and brown with other accent colors. Distressed. Desirable Age W...

60719 Vintage Turkish Overdyed Rug, 07'10 x 10'05. Prepare for a design spectacle where Belgian Chic gracefully contends with French Industrial in the captivating world of handmade r...

A vintage Turkish flatweave Kilim runner handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 2' 4" x 37' 3"

Distressed antique Turkish Sivas rug with Modern Rustic style, Square Accent rug. This hand-knotted wool antique Turkish Sivas square rug with modern rustic style features a rectangu...

52121, rustic style vintage Turkish Oushak runner, hallway runner. This hand knotted wool vintage Turkish Oushak runner features three connected hexagonal medallions capped with palm...

53363, distressed vintage Turkish Sivas rug with rustic Mid-Century Modern style. This hand knotted wool distressed vintage Turkish Sivas rug features an all-over checkerboard patter...

53353, distressed vintage Turkish Sivas rug with Mid-Century Modern rustic style. This hand knotted wool distressed vintage Turkish Sivas rug features an all-over checkered stripe pa...

53338, Distressed Vintage Turkish Sivas Rug with Rustic Cubist Style. This hand knotted wool distressed vintage Turkish Sivas rug features an all-over checkered diagonal stripe patte...

53278, distressed vintage Turkish Sivas rug with Modern Cubist style. This hand knotted wool distressed vintage Turkish Sivas rug features an all-over checkered pattern comprised of ...

51896, Zeki Muren distressed vintage Turkish Sivas rug with modern rustic English style. Warm and inviting with a lovingly time-worn composition, this hand knotted wool distressed vi...

52593, Zeki Muren distressed vintage Turkish Sivas rug with Modern Rustic style 05'02 x 09'00. Warm and inviting combined with subdued colors, this distressed vintage Turkish Sivas r...

73663, distressed vintage Turkish Oushak rug with rustic Adirondack lodge style. This hand knotted wool distressed vintage Turkish Oushak rug features...

72224 Rare Antique Turkish Sivas Rug, 09’08 x 13’05. Woven in the twilight of the Ottoman Empire, this hand-knotted wool antique Turkish Sivas rug embodies a rare fusion of imperial ...

73780 Vintage Turkish Sivas rug with Rustic Cottage & Crafts style. With architectural elements of curved forms and decorative detailing, this hand knot...

50334 distressed vintage Turkish Sivas rug with Rustic Art Nouveau and shabby chic style. With architectural elements of curved arabesque forms and decorative detailing, this hand kn...

51916 Distressed Vintage Turkish Sivas Rug with Traditional English Rustic Style Style 02'09 x 06'03. Warm and inviting, this hand knotted wool distressed vintage Turkish Sivas runne...

51539, rustic style distressed vintage Turkish Sivas Area rug. This hand knotted wool distressed vintage Turkish Sivas rug features a scalloped diamond-...

50412, Rustic style vintage Turkish Oushak rug. A perennial beauty, this hand-knotted wool vintage Turkish Oushak rug displays a grand hooked diamond medallion surrounded by a cut-ou...

73928, modern Rustic style vintage Turkish Sivas accent rug, entry or foyer rug. This hand-knotted wool vintage Turkish Sivas accent rug features a modern rustic style. Immersed in A...

50245 Antique Turkish Sivas Rug, 04'03 x 06'06. With warm spice-tones and lovingly rustic appearance, this hand knotted wool antique Turkish Sivas rug embraces English Manor style. I...

52037 distressed vintage Turkish Sivas rug with Traditional style 06'09 x 11'05. With its rugged beauty and timeless style, this...

50837 Vintage Turkish Oushak Runner, Hallway Runner, 3'10 x 9'10. This hand-knotted wool vintage Turkish Oushak runner with rustic style features three amulet-style medallions on an abrashed ecru background. It is surrounded by a delicate border and soft, gray spandrels in each corner. It combines simplicity with sophistication. Rendered in a low-contrast muted color palette in variegated shades of ecru, tan, sand, camel, khaki, beige, greige, gray, light gray, oyster gray and taupe. Invite the beauty of Oushak weaving into your home or office interior with this vintage hallway runner...

73742 Distressed Antique Turkish Sivas Rug 04'01 x 06'04. ​​​Warm and inviting with its, rugged beauty, this hand-knotted distressed antique Turkish Sivas rug is poised to impress. T...

A vintage Turkish flatweave Kilim room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 9' 2" x 12' 0".

A vintage Turkish Anatolian small room size carpet handmade during the Mid-20th Century. Measures: 8' 4" x 10' 11".

A vintage Turkish flatweave Kilim room size carpet handmade during the Mid-20th Century. Measures: 9' 2" x 12' 0".

This all wool rustic piece has been created from two edge joined assembled wool panels with jogged stripe designs in shades of brown, beige, straw and taupe. The composite sections w...

A vintage Turkish flatweave Kilim room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 9' 11" x 13' 3".

N° 734 - Hand knotted carpet in Turkish factory from 19th century. High quality, beautiful graphics and remarkable finesse. Perfect state of preservation. Measures: 150 x 115 cm.

A rustic modern Turkish flatweave Kilim style large oversize carpet handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 16' 5" x 19' 6".

A vintage Turkish Oushak throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 2' 8" x 5' 2".

A modern rustic Turkish flatweave Kilim room size carpet handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 9' 9" x 13' 8".

A modern Turkish flatweave Kilim large room size carpet handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 11' 6" x 16' 6".

A modern Turkish flatweave Kilim large room size carpet handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 9' 10" x 14' 1".

The brownish-red field on this sivas runner displays a close background fills of vines, stems, leavers and small flowers, all easily flowing around five nested elliptical pointed med...

Hand knotted carpet in a Turkmène factory. High quality, beautiful graphics and remarkable finesse. Density: About 12 000 knots per dm². Perfect state of preservation. Dimensions: 1...

A vintage Turkish flatweave Kilim room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 8' 9" x 10' 9".

A vintage Turkish Oushak throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 3' 7" x 5' 7".

A vintage Turkish Anatolian throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 3' 6" x 4' 11" 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...

The wriggling brown serpentines separate the soft salmon field from the ecru corners. A layered oval medallion is a subtle centerpiece.