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Item Ships From: Manhattan
Zabihi Collection American Navajo Blanket Rug
Located in New York, NY
An early 20th-century American Navajo Blanket Rug
Details
rug no. j3080
size 2' 6" x 4' 6" (76 x 137 cm)
Category
20th Century American Native American Manhattan - North and South American Rugs
Materials
Wool
Zabihi Collection American Navajo Blanket
Located in New York, NY
an early 20th century American Navajo blanket rug
Details
rug no. r5834
size 1' 4" x 3' 1" (41 x 94 cm)
Category
Early 20th Century American Native American Manhattan - North and South American Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Navajo Rug Yei Navajo Rare Human Geometric Handmade Wool Ivory, 1940
Located in New York, NY
Navajo rug flat woven rug tapestry beige
Measures: 4' x6' (3'11" x 5'7")
119cm x 170cm
Circa 1920
"The woolen rug has a white background color on which are three stylized figures on each side of a center cornstalk. All are surrounded on three sides by a "guardian "figure - one side is the head and the body - the other side are the legs. The rug is a Navajo Yei rug. All the figures are holding prayer sticks; there are feathers attached to the elbows of the figures in a vertical line. The colors of the rug are white, red, maroon, blue, tan, brown, grey, orange, rust and gold. The most common type of Navajo Yei rug are those with a white background color. Navajo Yei rugs were made at Lukachukai or in the Shiprock area or even Ganado. It is a fact that a Navajo Yei rug with many Yei figures and many colors will garner the highest value.
While Yei rugs are technically woven for the floor, they were often placed on couches, or hung on the wall like paintings, few actually touched the ground. The Yei figure is a frequently used pattern in Navajo rugs. Male Yei figures are generally pictured with round heads, and female Yei figures with square heads.
Modern Yei rugs are more often pictorial compositions, showing a row of front-facing stylized stick figures with a Rainbow Guardian which protects the figures on three sides, indicating the sand painting roots of this particular style. The Yei rug portrays ceremonies on a desire for healing, not only physical health, but also mental, spiritual, and even material well-being.
The "Holy People...
Category
1940s Persian Navajo Vintage Manhattan - North and South American Rugs
Materials
Wool
Round American Hooked Rug Dated 1963
Located in New York, NY
Rare American Hooked rug with a happy colorful motif. Dated 1963 and initialized IEV. Not sure whose name is in the initials
Measure: 30'' round.
Category
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Manhattan - North and South American Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Navajo Rug Flatwoven Geometric Tree of Life Handwoven Rug Tapestry
Located in New York, NY
Navajo rug flat woven rug tapestry beige
Measures: 4' x6' (3'11" x 5'7")
119cm x 170cm
Circa 1920
"The woolen rug has a white background color on which are three stylized figures on each side of a center cornstalk. All are surrounded on three sides by a "guardian "figure - one side is the head and the body - the other side are the legs. The rug is a Navajo Yei rug...
Category
1940s Persian Navajo Vintage Manhattan - North and South American Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage American Braided Rug
Located in New York, NY
A vintage American Braided carpet from the second quarter of the 20th century. Although America (British-America) has been producing rugs since the 16th century it was never industrialized at the time. Colonial America had been importing European rugs through England. However, tariffs after the Revolutionary War concluded the importation business. The American rug industry boomed during the third quarter of the 19th century. What started off as a makeshift homemade project by women in the late 16th to early 17th century, braiding scrap clothing and fabrics to provide warmth and a feeling of protection for homes had now become popularized in American fashion, design, and trade. Vintage American Braided rugs...
Category
Mid-20th Century American American Colonial Manhattan - North and South American Rugs
Materials
Wool
Mid-20th Century Handmade American Braided Round / Circular Accent Carpet
Located in New York, NY
A vintage American Braid round/circular accent rug handmade during the mid-20th century.
Measures: 7' 1" x 7' 1".
Category
Mid-20th Century American American Classical Manhattan - North and South American Rugs
Materials
Wool, Yarn
Vintage Native American Navajo Rug 3'9 X 5'1
Located in New York, NY
Antique Native American Navajo Rug 3'9 X 5'1. Antique Navajos are usually in scatter sizes and larger, room size pieces are both extremely rare and highly desirable . As perpetually ...
Category
20th Century North American Navajo Manhattan - North and South American Rugs
Materials
Wool
19th Century American Hooked Rug ( 11'8" x 15'4" - 355 x 467 )
Located in New York, NY
19th Century American Hooked Rug ( 11'8" x 15'4" - 355 x 467 )
Category
1890s American Folk Art Antique Manhattan - North and South American Rugs
Materials
Wool
Mid 20th Century American Hooked Rug ( 5' 10" x 8' 4" - 180 x 255 cm )
Located in New York, NY
Mid 20th Century American Hooked Rug ( 5' 10" x 8' 4" - 180 x 255 cm )
Category
1960s American Vintage Manhattan - North and South American Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique American Hooked Rug
Located in New York, NY
Antique American hooked rug, size: 2'0" x 3'4".
Category
1930s American Vintage Manhattan - North and South American Rugs
Materials
Wool
Zabihi Collection Antique American Navajo Tribal Rug
Located in New York, NY
A highly decorative 20th-century American Navajo rug with a geometric tribal design
Measures: 3'2'' x 4'10''.
Category
Early 20th Century American Native American Manhattan - North and South American Rugs
Materials
Wool
Zabihi Collection American Hooked Zodiac Horoscope Vintage Square Rug
Located in New York, NY
a wild mid-20th century hooked rug featuring a zodiac horoscope pattern
Details
rug no. j4034
size 3' x 3' 2" (91 x 97 cm)
Category
Mid-20th Century American Country Manhattan - North and South American Rugs
Materials
Jute
Early 20th Century American Hooked Rug ( 2'3" x 3'1" - 69 x 94 )
Located in New York, NY
Early 20th Century American Hooked Rug ( 2'3" x 3'1" - 69 x 94 )
Category
1910s American Folk Art Vintage Manhattan - North and South American Rugs
Materials
Wool, Fabric
Early 20th Century American Navajo Carpet ( 3' x 5'6" - 91 x 168 )
Located in New York, NY
The red field displays an offset vertical pattern of fringed diamonds in cream, black and abrashed natural grey, some with camel-tone centers. Narrow plain double border in red and c...
Category
1920s American Vintage Manhattan - North and South American Rugs
Materials
Wool
Mid 20th Century American Braided Rug ( 9' x 12' 6" - 275 x 381 cm)
Located in New York, NY
Mid 20th Century American Braided Rug ( 9' x 12' 6" - 275 x 381 cm)
Category
1950s American Vintage Manhattan - North and South American Rugs
Materials
Fabric, Wool
Early 20th Century American Oval Braided Rug ( 12'6" x 15'8" - 381 x 478 )
Located in New York, NY
Early 20th Century American Oval Braided Rug ( 12'6" x 15'8" - 381 x 478 )
Category
1920s American Vintage Manhattan - North and South American Rugs
Materials
Fabric
Mid 20th Century Ecuadorian Carpet ByOlga Fisch ( 11' x 13'4"-335 x 406 )
By Olga Fisch
Located in New York, NY
Ecuadorian carpet designed by Olga Fisch 13'4" x 11'0"
Of Hungarian origin, Olga Fisch (1901-1991) emigrated in 1933, first to Morocco and in 1939 to Ecuador, ahead of the political instability wracking Europe.
Already an artist and collector of folk art, Fisch quickly took to the local arts and crafts available
in the Quito markets. Folk and Paleolithic cave art and
established a workshop creating knotted pile carpets to her individualistic and unique designs.
The firm continues today, as does the museum of (primarily) Ecuadorian folk art. Only domestic
sheep wool is employed and the rugs are firmly symmetrically (Turkish) knotted on a cotton
foundation at a density of 60,000 knots per square meter or about 40 knots per square inch.
is a rare oval creation with the “Cabalito” pattern inspired by the folk embroidery on the “danzantes’ participants in the Corpus Christi processions from Cotopaxi, Ecuador. A number of these costumes are in the Olga Fisch Folk Art Museum in Quito. The pattern densely fills the ivory field with mobile figures, horses and vegetal motives. It is reminiscent of certain Greek Island women’s costume embroideries. Often the “Cabalito” pattern occupies an oval or lobed section on an otherwise plain rectangular carpet, but here is the pattern takes up almost all of the oval, with its energetic filigree of figures, fauna and flora.
Olga Fisch carpets are as 1950s modern as they get and our examples cry out for the right Danish or Swedish modern furniture as their perfect accompaniments. Some Italian Murano glass table objects won’t hurt either.
A Neutra or Schindler house in the Los Angeles hills is definitely the perfect context,
but any midcentury ranch...
Category
1950s Ecuadorean Vintage Manhattan - North and South American Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Art Nouveau American Hooked Rug. 5 ft 7 in x 8 ft
Located in New York, NY
Antique Art Nouveau American Hooked Rug, United States, c. 1920. Size: 5 ft 7 in x 8 ft (1.7 m x 2.44 m)
This marvelous antique hooked rug, an exceptional piece produced in the United States during the early decades of the twentieth century, features an allover design of stylized flowers and tendrils an almost hypnotic composition. Featuring an eye-catching color pallet of reds, greens, and blues, this exquisite hooked rug typifies the aesthetic values held in highest regard by the Art Nouveau movement. Creating an impression of activity and liveliness, the fine design of this rug exemplifies the vigor and vitality of the best Art Nouveau compositions. The dynamic energy of the swirling tendrils of alternating greens and violets set against the mesmerizing, staid red that dominates the piece creates an impression of movement. Boasting a fetching symmetry, this beautiful antique rug shows four stunning corners, pointedly defined by highly stylized vases, each of which houses a gorgeous arrangement of red flowers. Exquisite detail and dynamic energy reverberate throughout this remarkable antique Art Nouveau carpet...
Category
Early 20th Century American Art Nouveau Manhattan - North and South American Rugs
Materials
Wool
1930s American Braided Rug ( 8' R - 245 R )
Located in New York, NY
1930s American Braided Rug ( 8' R - 245 R )
Category
1930s American Folk Art Vintage Manhattan - North and South American Rugs
Materials
Wool, Fabric
Antique American Braided Rug. 2'. 6" x 2' 6"
Located in New York, NY
Antique American braided rug, size: 2'6" x 2'6".
Category
Early 1900s American Antique Manhattan - North and South American Rugs
Materials
Fabric, Wool
Zabihi Collection American Hooked Floral Rug Pillow
Located in New York, NY
Pillow made from a colorful 20th-century floral American hooked rug
Measures: 11" x 16".
Category
20th Century Country Manhattan - North and South American Rugs
Materials
Wool, Cotton, Foam
Antique American Quilt
Located in New York, NY
There is no overarching color composition to either the square sections nor to their associated six-point stars on this richly toned antique quilt. The stars are not perfectly orient...
Category
Early 20th Century American American Colonial Manhattan - North and South American Rugs
Materials
Wool
1940s Chimayo flat weave ( 4'8" x 6'8" - 142 x 198 cm)
Located in New York, NY
1940s Chimayo flat weave ( 4'8" x 6'8" - 142 x 198 cm)
Category
1930s Mexican Vintage Manhattan - North and South American Rugs
Materials
Wool
Early 20th Century American Navajo Carpet ( 4'2" x 5'10" - 127 x 178 )
Located in New York, NY
Early 20th Century American Navajo Carpet ( 4'2" x 5'10" - 127 x 178 )
Category
1920s American Navajo Vintage Manhattan - North and South American Rugs
Materials
Wool
1930s American Hooked Rug ( 6' x 8'4" - 183 x 254 )
Located in New York, NY
1930s American Hooked Rug ( 6' x 8'4" - 183 x 254 )
Category
1920s American Folk Art Vintage Manhattan - North and South American Rugs
Materials
Wool
Early 20th Century American Hooked Rug with Tumbling Block Pattern
Located in New York, NY
Early 20th Century American Hooked Rug with Tumbling Block Pattern
2'10" x 3'9" - 86 x 114
Category
1920s American Folk Art Vintage Manhattan - North and South American Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Mexican Textile Pictorial Yei Weaving Rug
Located in New York, NY
Vintage Mexican pictorial rug weaving with five Yei (Yeibichai) figures holding feathers. Woven of native hand-spun wool in natural fleece yarns ...
Category
20th Century Mexican Native American Manhattan - North and South American Rugs
Materials
Wool
Early 20th Century American Navajo Carpet ( 5'6" x 9'9" - 168 x 298 )
Located in New York, NY
Early 20th Century American Navajo Carpet ( 5'6" x 9'9" - 168 x 298 )
Category
1920s American Navajo Vintage Manhattan - North and South American Rugs
Materials
Wool
Framed American Hook Rug Wall Hanging
Located in New York, NY
An American hooked rug mounted on a large frame with a man sitting on a chair. the material used on his pants are from raw denim jeans. Creative technique used by weaver. This piece ...
Category
20th Century American Country Manhattan - North and South American Rugs
Materials
Cotton, Jute, Wool
Vintage American Pictorial Hooked Mat Size Rug
Located in New York, NY
American hooked rug from the late 20th century. An array of fruits and on circular medallions. A rooster spotted on one of the medallions. Initials of weaver found on another medallion.
Category
Late 20th Century American Folk Art Manhattan - North and South American Rugs
Materials
Wool
19th Century American Navajo Germantown Carpet
Located in New York, NY
19th Century American Navajo Germantown Carpet
Category
1890s American Antique Manhattan - North and South American Rugs
Materials
Wool
Late 19th Century American Shaker Rag Rug ( 8'6" x 9' 0" - 260 x 300 cm )
Located in New York, NY
Late 19th Century American Shaker Rag Rug ( 8'6" x 9' 0" - 260 x 300 cm )
Category
1880s American Shaker Antique Manhattan - North and South American Rugs
Materials
Fabric, Wool
19th Century American Ingrain Carpet ( 7'7" x 9'6" - 230 x 290 )
Located in New York, NY
19th Century American Ingrain Carpet ( 7'7" x 9'6" - 230 x 290 )
Category
1870s American American Empire Antique Manhattan - North and South American Rugs
Materials
Wool
Early 20th Century American Navajo Carpet
Located in New York, NY
Early 20th Century American Navajo Carpet
Category
1930s American Vintage Manhattan - North and South American Rugs
Materials
Wool
American Hooked Pictorial Rug
Located in New York, NY
An early 20th century American hooked pictorial rug.
Measures: 1'2'' x 1'7''.
Category
20th Century Country Manhattan - North and South American Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique American Rag Rug
Located in New York, NY
Antique American Rag rug, size: 11'0" x 11'4".
Category
1880s American Antique Manhattan - North and South American Rugs
Materials
Wool
Oval Mid-20th Century Handmade American Braided Room Size Carpet
Located in New York, NY
A vintage American Braided oval room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century.
Measures: 9' 5" x 12' 3"
North American has never developed a unified handmade rug tradition, but rather it is the unassimilated confluence of several. From Mexico comes the Saltillo serape wearing blanket, and this stimulates the Navajo and Rio Grande (Colorado) weavers, first as blankets, then as rugs. The thrifty habits of rural America gave rise to the New England (and Western Canadian) hooked rug types, while the farmers of the Midwest recycled their disused garments into braided and rag rugs.
The closest to a real ongoing tradition are the Southwestern (New Mexican) Navajo rugs. By the 1860’s the native tribes were weaving wearing blankets with wool from the Spanish churro sheep. These were in stripe design, with combinations of undyed wool with cochineal reds and indigo blues. The multi-phase “Chief’s Blankets” from the 1870’s-80’s are a natural outgrowth of these. Machine spun red wool from Germantown in Pennsylvania appeared in the 1870’s with a bright red hitherto unobtainable. The weavers loved it and blankets appeared with bright reds, generally aniline, in “eye dazzler” patterns. Anglo traders established posts beginning in the 1890’s. Navajo weavings were perfect accompaniments not only for Western-themed decors, but for East Coast apartments, only they needed to be thicker and more rug like to be truly accepted. The traders brought Caucasian and Turkish village rugs to copy, borders were introduced and central medallions devised. The weavers continued to create on vertical looms, with a shared warp (dovetailing) weft structure to avoid slits. The warps were cotton string. Sizes were generally scatters, but occasionally a special order came in, hence antique room size Navajos are very rare and very pricey. Distinct village/pueblo styles developed. Among the best are: Two Grey Hills (considered the tightest, closest of all Navajo weaving), Crystal Springs and Ganado. Certain new patterns such as the “Storm pattern” with jagged lightning bolts emanating from a dark cloud developed. The Yei rug with dancing Kachina doll figures became popular. The palette has been expanded beyond the classic grey, tan, dark brown and cream natural wool combination to again include reds, blue and greens. Navajo pictorials include: American flags, trains and automobiles, domestic and local scenes and scenery. Individual artist weavers now command gallery shows and correspondingly elevated prices. There are several levels of Navajo work, and antique and vintage scatters with simple flat designs, medium weaves and tritonal palettes, and in good floor worthy condition are still available reasonably.
The Native American weaving tradition extends into Colorado with two piece scatters with sharp sawtooth medallions and striped end borders, with wool tapestry weave on cotton warps. These descend from the Saltillo blankets...
Category
Mid-20th Century American American Classical Manhattan - North and South American Rugs
Materials
Wool, Yarn
Early 20th Century American Hooked Rug ( 2'2" x 3'2" - 66 x 96 )
Located in New York, NY
Early 20th Century American Hooked Rug ( 2'2" x 3'2" - 66 x 96 )
Category
1930s American Vintage Manhattan - North and South American Rugs
Materials
Wool, Fabric, Cotton
Zabihi Collection Antique American Navajo Tribal Rug
Located in New York, NY
An early 20th Century American Navajo tribal blanket weaving. T
Details
rug no. j3922
size 2'11'' x 4' 6"
Category
Early 20th Century American Native American Manhattan - North and South American Rugs
Materials
Wool
Zabihi Collection Choo Choo Train 20th Century American Hooked Pictorial Rug
Located in New York, NY
A 20th century pictorial rug with trains on a gray ground. The border has the exact date the rug was completed, the area, the name of the weaver, and the entire alphabet! It’s a conv...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Country Manhattan - North and South American Rugs
Materials
Fabric, Wool, Jute
Antique American Hooked Rug
Located in New York, NY
Antique American Hooked rug, Size: 2'0"x3'0".
Category
1940s American Vintage Manhattan - North and South American Rugs
Materials
Wool
Scenic Duck American Hooked Pictorial Rug
Located in New York, NY
A handmade decorative American hooked rug from the middle of the 20th century depicting 2 ducks on a lively scenic view. The condition is really nice. No stain...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Country Manhattan - North and South American Rugs
Materials
Fabric, Jute, Wool
Early 20th Century American Hooked Rug
Located in New York, NY
Early 20th Century American Hooked Rug
Category
1920s American Vintage Manhattan - North and South American Rugs
Materials
Wool
Zabihi Collection Mid Century Abstract American Hooked Runner
Located in New York, NY
A rare midcentury modern style American hooked runner
Details
rug no. j4054
size 2' 8" x 7' 10" (81 x 239 cm)
Category
Mid-20th Century American Country Manhattan - North and South American Rugs
Materials
Jute
Antique American Hooked Rug 2'1" x4'6"
Located in New York, NY
Antique American Hooked Rug, Size: 2'1" x4'6"
Category
1950s American Vintage Manhattan - North and South American Rugs
Materials
Wool, Fabric
Zabihi Collection American Navajo Square Tribal Rug
Located in New York, NY
An early 20th century high decorative American Navajo Square rug / Blanket
Measures: 4'5" x 4'11".
Category
20th Century American Native American Manhattan - North and South American Rugs
Materials
Wool
Round American Hooked Floral Rug
Located in New York, NY
An early 20th century American hooked round rug
Measures: 2'.
Category
20th Century Country Manhattan - North and South American Rugs
Materials
Wool
Early 20th Century American Hooked Rug
Located in New York, NY
Early 20th Century American Hooked Rug 2' 9"x 2' 9"
Category
Early 1900s Chinese Antique Manhattan - North and South American Rugs
Materials
Wool
Plaid American Rag Rug Runners, Set of 2, Mid-20th Century
Located in New York, NY
A rare matching set of rag rug runners containing a plaid motif on a straw colored ground from the mid-20th century
Measuring: 3'2" x 14'5" & 3'2" x ...
Category
20th Century American American Classical Manhattan - North and South American Rugs
Materials
Jute
Vintage American Rag Rug
Located in New York, NY
A vintage American rag rug from the mid-20th century.
Category
Mid-20th Century American American Colonial Manhattan - North and South American Rugs
Materials
Wool
Lovely Tribal American Navajo Square Rug
Located in New York, NY
An early 20th century high decorative American Navajo rug featuring a tribal design in gray, pink, ivory, and brown
Measures: 4'2" x 4'8".
Category
20th Century American Native American Manhattan - North and South American Rugs
Materials
Wool
1930s American Two Grey Hills Navajo Carpet ( 5'4" x 7'10" - 165 x 240 )
Located in New York, NY
Antique Navajo rug with a black color background design and size 5'4" x 7'10". This earth-tone and black Southwestern Native American scatter is an unusually toned piece from the des...
Category
1910s American Navajo Vintage Manhattan - North and South American Rugs
Materials
Wool
Wild Vietnamese Cheetah Hooked Rug
Located in New York, NY
A late 20th century one of a kind Hooked Rug with 10 cheetahs on a 4 long branches on a green and black large leaf pattern
Measures: 5' x 8'.
Category
Late 20th Century Vietnamese Black Forest Manhattan - North and South American Rugs
Materials
Wool
Mid-20th Century Handmade American Square Quilt
Located in New York, NY
A vintage American square Quilt handmade during the mid-20th century.
Measures: 6' 1" x 6' 4"
Category
Mid-20th Century American American Classical Manhattan - North and South American Rugs
Materials
Wool, Cotton
Vintage Olga Fisch Ecuadorian Rug. Size: 6' 10" x 10' 4"
By Olga Fisch
Located in New York, NY
Stunning vintage Ecuadorian rug by Olga Fisch, origin: Ecuador, circa mid-20th century. Size: 6 ft 10 in x 10 ft 4 in (2.08 m x 3.15 m)
Olga Fisch was an inspired artist of the mid-...
Category
Mid-20th Century Ecuadorean Art Deco Manhattan - North and South American Rugs
Materials
Wool
Early 20th Century American Navajo Two Grey Hills Carpet ( 4' x 7' - 122 x 213 )
Located in New York, NY
Early 20th Century American Navajo Two Grey Hills Carpet ( 4' x 7' - 122 x 213 )
Category
1910s American Navajo Vintage Manhattan - North and South American Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique American Rag Rug 3'4" x 12'0"
Located in New York, NY
Antique American Rag Rug, Size: 3'4" x 12'0"
Category
1930s American Vintage Manhattan - North and South American Rugs
Materials
Fabric, Cotton
