Manhattan - Turkish Rugs

A contemporary Turkish room size carpet handmade during the 21st century inspired by Moroccan carpets from the mid-20th century period. Measures: 10' 4" x 12' 8".

A modern Turkish large room size carpet handmade during the 21st century inspired by Moroccan rugs of the mid-20th century period. Measures: 14' 2" x 18' 8".

A vintage Turkish Anatolian throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 3' 4" x 6' 7".

A modern Turkish flat-woven Kilim style rug from the 21st century.

An antique Turkish Sivas carpet from the early 20th century.

The golden ivory field presents a large-scale, very spacious version of the Perso-Caucasian Hershang all-over design with ragged palmettes, pointed oval cartouches and stiff vines. T...

A vintage Turkish Sivas carpet from the second quarter of the 20th century.

a late 19th-century Turkish Hereke worn rug in moss green and raspberry tones Details rug no. 31621 size 5' 2" x 8' 1" (157 x 246 cm)

Large Antique Turkish Ghiordes Rug, Country Of Origin: Turkey, Circa date: 1820. Size: 15 ft 6 in x 18 ft 7 in (4.72 m x 5.66 m)

A modern Turkish room size carpet with a diagonally hooked pattern in black and white over a beige ground handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 8' 6" x 12' 2".

A vintage Turkish Anatolian throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 3' 6" x 4' 11" 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 contemporary Turkish Shag rug in square format handmade during the late 20th century in coral and black. Measures: 7' 2" x 7' 10".

Pillow made from an early 20th century Turkish Kilim. Polyfill insert provided with a zipper closure. Measures: 18'' x 18''.

Mid-20th Century Turkish rug depicting 2 deers on a brown field. Check the border out too! Measures: 1'9'' x 2'9''.

an early 20th century Pale Ivory field Turkish Oushak Rug that has been antique washed. some yellow and blue dominant accent colors Details rug no. j3812 size 13' 2" x 15' 6" (401 x...

A vintage Turkish Anatolian carpet from the mid-20th century. Measures: 5' 5" x 7' 9"

Antique Turkish Oushak rug, Size: 10' 10'' x 12' 8''.

A vintage Turkish Anatolian rug from the second half of the 20th century. Measures: 2' 11" x 6' 2"

Pillow made from a vintage turkish kilim with cotton back. Zipper closure and foam insert provided. 19'' x 20''

One of a kind 21st century Turkish Tulu Rug in design found from Turkish Mohair Sirt Rugs woven in the 20th century rug no. j3117 Size 10' 2" x 14' 4".

Pillow made from a mid-20th-century Turkish Anatolian rug in a bolster size. zipper closure and poly fill insert provided Measures: 15'' x 27''.

Colorful casual long Kilim runner from the mid-20th century. Bright pinks, black orange, lime green, fuchsia highlight the color accents on an ivory ground. Measures: 1'10” x 21'1”.

Ref 17029

A vintage Turkish Oushak carpet from the second quarter of the 20th century featuring a minimalistic solid orange ground encased by a single border.

20th Century Turkish Kilim pillow Measure: 20'' x 20''.

Coral red background antique Oushak rug 12'0" x 15'6".

A vintage Turkish Anatolian throw rug. A lozenge medallion with carnation edging is set on a red field within a multi-color alternating triangle and abstract flower border. Above the...

Gorgeous Large Silk & Wool Modern Allover Floral Design Rug, Country of origin: Turkey, Circa date: Modern

A vintage Turkish Anatolian carpet from the second quarter of the 20th century.

A rare antique silk Turkish Kayseri rug. This is likely a central Anatolian niche-design scatter from the town of Ladik. The royal blue field and near black spandrels have the double...

A vintage Turkish Konia carpet with mint and purple hues from the mid-20th century.

An abstract midcentury Turkish Anatolian rug with a brick red field with accents in orange and brown. Size: 3'8” x 6'6” Turkish carpets and rugs, whether hand knotted or flat-w...

Oversized Decorative Antique Turkish Oushak Area Rug, Country of origin / rug type: Turkish rugs, Circa date: 1900. Size: 20 ft x 26 ft 6 in (6.1 m x 8.08 m)   

How rare is an old gold field? A geometric version of the all-over Harshang (crab) pattern is symmetrically laid out with accents in goldenrod, ecru and salmon, all on the abrashed g...

Antique Turkish Oushak rug carpet, circa 1900. Size: 9'4 x 11'. Handwoven in Turkey where rug weaving is the culture rather than a business. Rugs from Oushak are known for the high q...

Pillow made from a vintage Turkish rug. Measures: 18” x 18”.

Antique mid-century rug in amazing condition, inquire with any and all questions.

Vintage Turkish Kilim - Sivas 9'4" x 11'6".

A one of a kind Turkish scatter size throw rug from the mid-20th century.

Sophisticated Silk & Wool Rust Tones Modern Botanical Pattern Rug, Country of origin: Turkey, Circa date: Modern

A light lime green open field is centred by a pale salmon medallion and is clasped by en suite quarter corners. The edges of these elements are roughly and irregularly drawn as if th...

Small square pillow made from a shabby chic Turkish rug. 15'' x 15''

Early 19th Century Turkish Anatolian Kula Carpet ( 4'6" x 5'2" - 137 x 158 )

This piece features a wool pile of symmetric knots on a wool foundation. Smaller than most vintage Kars carpets, it boasts a boldly simple design. The abrashed burgundy-red field is ...

An early 20th century antique Oushak runner featuring a pumpkin orange field, forest green border with an all-over design attributed to the Arts & Crafts movement. Measures: 2'10”...

Finely woven Turkish Sivas carpet with Classic medallion and border, predominant color accents in gray and red. Measures: 6'7” x 9'7”.

The sand field displays a round medallion edged with a flame pattern of small bottehs with additional booths floating around the floriate pendants and elsewhere in the open areas. Re...

Early 20th Century Turkish Oushak Carpet ( 10' x 13' - 304 x 396 cm )

Early 20th Century Turkish Oushak Carpet 12' x 15'8" - 365 x 477 cm

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An antique Turkish Sivas throw rug. Originally ascribed to Sivas in eastern Turkey, this scatter in a prayer layout could be from any of the central Anatolian villages from Ladik (th...

19th Century Turkish Angora Oushak Carpet ( 10' x 12'4'' - 305 x 375 )

Mid 19th Century Turkish Kirshehir Prayer Rug ( 3'8" x 5'3" - 112 x 160 cm )

A narrow vintage turkish runner in predominant bright cherry red. 1'6'' x 10'3''

Peach and orange works only on Oushaks. Three explicit columns of small lozenges and geometric flowers and palmettes organize the spaciously drawn ...

This Orange Antique Turkish Oushak Rug - 10'3" x 13'3" is an exemplary of traditional design and craft, this wool rug brings texture and richness to modern spaces. Made in Turkey, th...

Vintage Angora mohair wool rug in brown and ivory. Measures: 4'8'' x 6'.

The old light yellow and gently faded open field displays a ragged elliptical medallion. Cartouches at the cardinal field points along with broken stems and floral décor make an impl...

A vintage Turkish Anatolian accent rug handmade during the Mid-20th century. Measures: 6' 5" x 9' 8"

This Yellow Contemporary Tiger Wool Rug is a vibrant piece featuring a stylized tiger design on a yellow background. Hand knotted in Turkey, this 4'1" x...