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Made in Iran with the highest quality Persian hand-carded, hand-spun-wool and all vegetable dyes, this runner rug resembles the original prized antique ...

A vintage Tibetan throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 2' 1" x 5' 4".

This Persian Shiraz modern rug is handwoven, and made from the finest hand-carded, hand-spun naturally dyed wool. Many of the rugs made in the villages surrounding the city of Shiraz...

A vintage Indian Lahore carpet, from the second quarter of the 20th century, with an elicit floral pattern over a black field.

A vintage Persian Kashan Art Deco style modernist accent rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 4' 5" x 6' 11".

A vintage Chinese Art Deco accent rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures:

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet ( 11'9" x 17' - 358 x 518 )

A vintage Turkish runner, in the style of East Turkestan Khotan carpets, handmade during the mid-20th century.

Vintage English Deco rug by Hildo Krop, Country Of Origin: England, Circa date: Early 20th century. Size: 6 ft 5 in x 10 ft 1 in (1.96 m x 3.07 m)

A vintage Turkish Anatolian rug in runner format handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 2' 7" x 7' 4" 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...

A vintage Turkish Anatolian long & narrow gallery format carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 6' 3" x 18' 10"

Made of the finest Persian wool, our Mazandaran collection highlights the Minimalist sophistication that existed long before the modern era. The collection was inspired by the kilims...

American hooked rug. Measures: 6'0" x 9'0". Handwoven.

A modern Turkish flat-weave Kilim large room size carpet handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 13' 9" x 16' 8" Flat-weave rugs & carpets: Knotted pile rugs are just one small part of a vast universe of textile techniques suitable for heavy use. If you can imagine it, some weaver has tried it out. Pieces can be roughly divided into those reversible from the start and those never, or at least not initially, reversible. Thus, kilims are considered reversible, while everything else is not. Kilims are tapestry woven rugs with both sides the same, in either slit technique where colors change, or with various methods of avoiding slits. Slit tapestry weave goes back to ancient times and Coptic...

An antique Persian Qashqai rug from the early 20th century. Measures: 4' 1" x 6' 7"

A vintage Persian flat-weave Kilim zebra print small room size accent rug handmade during the mid-20th century in the rustic style that works well with modern farmhouse interiors...

A vintage Indian flat-weave cotton dhurrie room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century in shades of grey, blue, and cream/white. Dhurries were originally intended for summe...

Beautiful contemporary handknotted rug in wool and cotton. Custom color and size available. Rug measures 6'10"x9'8".

Our Mazandaran Collection highlights the minimalist sophistication that existed long before the modern era. These rugs are inspired by the kilims that were woven by Persian women in...

A vintage Turkish Sivas accent rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 6' 5" x 9' 1".

Magnificent Blue Antique Persian Sarouk Area Rug, Country of origin: Persian Rugs, Circa date: 1920

A vintage Persian Malayer throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century in shades of grey and brown. Measures: 3' 7" x 5' 5" Persian Rugs & Carpets: Persia (Iran) is a moderately ...

A vintage Persian Tabriz room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century with a grey field and rust red border. Measures: 9' 5" x 12' 1" Persia (Iran) is a moderately large county with a very long history and an enormous art/craft/industry built around the handmade carpet. Until the discovery of oil, carpets were the largest Persian export. The craft goes back to ancient times, although the history is more broken than one might expect or desire. The Pazyryk rug...

Antique Persian Tabriz Oriental carpet, circa 1920, room sized. An antique Persian Tabriz oriental carpet, circa 1920. Size: 9'6" x 7'1". This large sized antique decorative rug...

Antique Perisan Tabriz Oriental Carpet, circa 1920, Room Sized An antique Persian Tabriz oriental carpet, circa 1920. Size: 10'0" x 6'6". This large sized antique decorative rug...

A vintage Persian Tabriz Art Deco accent rug handmade during the Mid-20th Century. Measures: 6' 8" x 7' 10".

Made of the finest Persian wool, our Mazandaran collection highlights the Minimalist sophistication that existed long before the modern era. The collection was inspired by the kilims...

An antique Persian Sarouk Fereghan accent rug handmade during the early 20th century. Measures: 4' 2" x 6' 4".

A vintage Turkish flatweave Kilim accent rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 7' 2" x 10' 7".

A vintage Persian Gabbeh tribal accent rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 5' 8" x 10' 1".

Beautiful Tree Of Life Design Antique Persian Bakshaish Rug, Country Of Origin: Antique Persian Rug, Circa Date: 1880. Size: 9 ft 1 in x 12 ft (2.77 m x 3.66 m)

Made in Iran, with the finest hand-carded, hand-spun wool, this hand knotted rug is designed with a traditional 19th century Tibetan motif by artisan weavers using ancient techniques...

Antique Perisan Tabriz Oriental carpet, circa 1920, Room Sized An antique Persian Tabriz oriental carpet, circa 1920. Size: 11'1" x 7'5". This large sized antique decorative rug w...

An antique Turkish Oushak room size carpet handmade during the early 20th century. Measures: 10' 3" x 12' 10" 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...

A gorgeous antique Turkish Oushak carpet, circa 1900, size 15'8 x 13'1. This lovely carpet features an unusual design in the ivory central field, characterized by floral blossoms, vi...

Our Persian Tabriz hand-knotted rug is made with the finest hand-spun naturally dyed wool. This reproduction resembles the high style tradition that goes back for centuries in one of...

Our Sahara rug is handknotted from hand-spun, naturally dyed wool. The blue and beige modern design offers a minimalist approach with a discreet pop of colo...

A vintage Persian Veece modernist carpet from the mid-20th century.

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

This Persian Tabriz hand-knotted rug is made from the finest hand-carded, hand-spun wool and is distinguished by its excellent weave, and by the remarkable adherence to the classical...

A vintage Turkish flatweave Kilim room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 10' 0" x 13' 0".

Our "Spearhead" modern flat-weave rug is crafted with hand-carded, hand-spun wool and cotton using ancient weaving techniques by artisan craftsmen in Afghanistan. Custom sizes and co...

A modern Turkish square oversize carpet handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 18' 1" x 21' 9".

A vintage Swedish Scandinavian flatweave Kilim room size carpet handmade during the Mid-20th Century. Measures: 9' 1" x 11' 7".

Made of the finest Persian wool, our Mazandaran collection highlights the Minimalist sophistication that existed long before the modern era. The collection was inspired by the kilims...

This rug resembles the Berber tribal rugs that have been made in Morocco for centuries in the Atlas Mountain region. Crafted with the same hand-carded, hand-spun wool, it is hand-kno...

Made in Iran of finest wool, our Mazandaran collection highlights the Minimalist sophistication that existed long before the modern era. The collection was inspired by the Kilims tha...

An antique Persian Mahal accent rug handmade during the early 20th century. The design is inspired and taken from the Persian Joshegan repertoire. Measures: 4' 4" x 6' 3".

an early 20th Century Kurd Persian Bidjar Rug Measures: 3'6'' x 15'10''.

Khotan rugs were originally produced in East Turkestan and are interchangeably referred to as Samarkand rugs due to their close proximity to the cultural city center of the same name...

This modern flat-weave rug is crafted with hand-carded, hand-spun wool using ancient weaving techniques by village artisan craftsmen in Afghanistan. Custom sizes and colors available...

Antique Persian Tabriz Oriental carpet, circa 1910, room sized. An antique Persian Tabriz oriental carpet, circa 1910. Size: 9'10" x 6'4". This large sized antique decorative rug...

A vintage Persian Hamadan accent rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 3' 5" x 6' 8" Persian rugs & carpets: Persia (Iran) is a moderately large country with a v...

Considered a village rug, and inspired by Persian style, this rug is made with hand-carded, hand-spun wool using only vegetable dyes by the artisans and weavers crafting unique carpe...

Handmade antique NW Persian carpet. Woven, circa 1900. Gallery size: 8'0" x 22'6". Pleasant neutral and blue palette. Large ivory central medallion on abrashed blue and brown backgro...

an early 20th Century Ivory Field Antique Turkish Oushak Carpet Details rug no. j4067 size 8' 8" x 10' 8" (264 x 325 cm)

A vintage Chinese Art Deco large room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 9' 10" x 13' 4".

A vintage Persian Hamadan carpet in long and narrow gallery format handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 4' 4" x 12' 3".

A modern Turkish oversize 16' x 19' flat-weave Kilim rug in square rug format handmade during the 21st century. A statement piece with its bright and whimsical colors. Measures: 1...

Casual Elegant Ivory Antique Rustic Persian Serapi Rug, Country of origin: Persian rugs, Circa date: 1880. Size: 9 ft 10 in x 12 ft 9 in (3 m x 3.89 m)