Early 20th Century Spanish Cuenca Carpet ( 6'6" x 10' - 198 x 305 )

Three columns of characteristic Oushak palmettes alternate with two vertical lines of cruciform, hooked motives, all on an otherwise un-ornamented tomato red ground. A red rosette an...

Early 20th Century N. Indian Agra Carpet 9' x 14' 10"

Early 20th Century Turkish Carpet ( 8'3" x 11'6" - 252 x 350 )

1930s Spanish Carpet ( 2'10'' x 13' - 85 x 395 )

My carpets are not affected by fashions. After a year the new modern carpets are no longer worth the price paid because the trend has changed, it has already gone further: that desig...

The sandy beige field shows an all-over one-way textile pattern of pomegranate palmettes enclosed by a lozenge lattice. Zig-zags mark out the main border with its knobby baton orname...

The court workshop called 'Real Fabrica de Tapices' has been active in Madrid since the 17th century, supplying handmade carpets woven with Turkish (symmetrical) knots to both the court as well as for export. Throughout the 20th century their carpets were either woven with French Savonnerie patterns or, as in this case, with designs taken from the Spanish Renaissance weaving tradition. These carpets are known in the trade with the term of 'Cuenca,' which is the city in southern Spain where they were originally woven in the 15th-17th centuries. Here the pattern, which has a raised pile with respect to the ivory background, is distinguished by an infinite repeat of curvilinear palmettes as seen on 15th-16th century Spanish Alcaraz carpets.

Vintage Spanish rug 6'7'' x 9'. A repeating textile five column textile pattern shows tilted pinecones, blue humanoid flowers, small barbed leaves and ...