Antique Square Spanish Rug, Light Palette, All-Over Field, High Low Pile

The light brown field shows a three by seven array of Turkmen guls with peripheries of small triangles. There are hooked Dynak minor guls and a main brown border with X’s and plain d...

An Array of quartered, octagonal nomadic guls in a three by eight pattern decorates the beige/tan field, with simple stepped minor guls in the interstices. Many borders, with two sho...

Near 4-foot square distressed early 20th century North Indian rug Measures: 3'10' x 3'11''.

Egypt has a rug-weaving tradition that dates back to at least the 16th century. After a brief period of glory, though, it seems to have gone into abeyance until after World War Two. The birth of the handmade carpet industry in modern Egypt dates to the Egyptian Revolution in 1952, when the importation of carpets from Iran ceased. Most people don’t think of Egypt as a source of Oriental rugs. New Egyptian rugs are almost never included in books on the subject because, first of all, new Oriental rugs...