Vintage Turkish Flat-Weave Hemp Rug 6'1 x 10'3

Square vintage Turkish flat-weave hemp rug. A vintage handwoven flat-weave hemp Kilim The weave is a simple tabby or plain weave. There are no borders. The texture is robustly coarse...

Modern Turkish flat-weave hemp rug, this is a new line fashioned from old materials. Vintage hemp flat-weaves are unraveled to provide yarn which is re-spun into sturdy yarns and the...

Modern Turkish flat-weave Hemp rug, 9'11 x 13'7. This is a new line fashioned from old materials. Vintage hemp flat-weaves are unraveled to provide yarn which is re-spun into sturdy ...

Vintage Turkish Jajim flat-weave rug. With this style of Jajim weaving different colored threads are woven between the warp and wefts The Jajim (cecim) technique is followed in Turkey, Persia and the Caucasus and consists of a plain weave (equal warps and wefts) ground with an added (supplementary) weft pattern. The wefts are usually discontinuous, cut off on the verso (back). The pattern develops as the ground is woven on the loom and not added afterwards as on an embroidered rug. It is easier to make repeating geometric patterns of squares, lozenges, diamonds, stepped diagonal lines and areas of plain color. Sometimes Jajim are in two pieces, stitched together along one long side, depending on the width of the loom. The Jajim technique seems to go back well into the 19th century in Turkey, but, since the flatweaves are generally made for household use and tossed out when worn, few early antique examples...

Vintage Turkish Oushak rug, 6'1 x 10'5. Vintage Turkish Oushak rug circa 1940 handwoven in Turkey where rug weaving is the culture rather than a business. Rugs from Turkey are known ...

Vintage Turkish flat-weave Jajim Kilim rug. Size: 5'1 x 7'8. The Jajim (cecim) technique is followed in Turkey, Persia and the Caucasus and consists of a plain weave (equal warps and wefts) ground with an added (supplementary) weft pattern. The wefts are usually discontinuous, cut off on the verso (back). The pattern develops as the ground is woven on the loom and not added afterwards as on an embroidered rug. It is easier to make repeating geometric patterns of squares, lozenges, diamonds, stepped diagonal lines and areas of plain color. Sometimes Jajim are in two pieces, stitched together along one long side, depending on the width of the loom. The Jajim technique seems to go back well into the 19th century in Turkey, but, since the flatweaves are generally made for household use and tossed out when worn, few early antique examples...

A vintage Turkish flat-woven Kilim carpet from the second quarter of the 20th century.

A vintage Turkish flat-woven carpet from the mid-20th century.

A vintage Turkish flat-woven Kilim rug from the late 20th century. Measures: 9' 5" x 12' 11"

A vintage Turkish flat-woven Kilim rug from the late 20th century.

A vintage Turkish flat-woven Kilim rug from the late 20th century.

A vintage Turkish textile flat-woven Kilim carpet from the mid-20th century.