Manhattan - Turkish Rugs

Lumbar size pillow made from a border of a tribal Turkish Anatolian rug from the 20th century Size: 16" x 24".

Vintage Angora mohair wool rug in black and ivory. Measures: 5' x 6'7''.

Colorful midcentury Turkish Jajim also known as Jijim. Measures: 3'7” x 4'11” With the Jijim weaving technique, different colored threads are applied between the weft and warp ...

One of a kind Turkish Gallery size runner with a camel field, ivory border, brown medallions with pink accents on field and border. Measures: 4'6” x 12'7”.

Mid-20th century Turkish Mohair rug, accents in black, ivory, brown, gray. Measures: 4' x 5'3".

Room square size Turkish Kilim from the middle of the 20th century in warm colors Measures: 9'10'' x 11'

A modern Turkish Anatolian small runner handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 2' 6" x 8' 6".

A scatter Turkish Kilim from the mid-20th century highlighted in purple & orange shades Measures: 2'4'' x 3'7".

Antique Art Deco Rug Handmade Chinese Rug 10x13 1920 10' x 18' 305cm x 549cm "Magnificent oversized antique Oushak in an incredible colorway and easy design and incredible size. A...

Mid-20th century Turkish Deco rug with a floral design in green, blue, and ivory Measures: 6'10''x 9'8''.

Shabby chic Turkish rug with pops of orange. 2'8'' x 4'9''

Intermediate size antique Turkish Oushak in pale colors.

A one of a kind mid-20th century boho vibe Turkish Kilim runner.

Antique East Anatolian long runner rug. A great antique village rug from Eastern Turkey with considerable age and a highly unusual and intriguing design. The pile of the rug is knotted in angora (mohair), rather than wool, another unusual feature. Fantastic color palette with superb natural dyes. A top-flight collectible item that should be of interest even for the seasoned connoisseurs. Well preserved and complete after minimal professional repairs. As a valuable antique...

An early 20th-century fine colorful Turkish Sivas runner Measures: 3'3'' x 9'1''.

One of a kind traditional wool 21st century Turkish Oushak in muted green and gold tones, accents in brick red Measures: 12'5" x 16'8".  

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...

One of kind hand knotted Turkish Zeki Muren rug Measures: 5' x 8'6" Zeki Muren was a famous Turkish musician back in the middle of the 20th centu...

A mid-20th century Turkish flat-weave Kilim.

Vintage Turkish Deco rug with an all-over repetitive design in feminine colors. 5'2'' x 8'6''

Fethiye Camel Kilim rug. A lovely old tribal flat-weave from Southwestern Turkey, rug is woven in alternating bands and decorated with motifs in "jijim" br...

A fun Turkish Anatolian scatter size with a flashy array of electric colors. 2 Humans are also found on the center of the rug, circa mid-20th century. Size 2'7” x 4'6”.

Pillow made from a vintage Turkish Kilim flat-weave.

Fethiye "Jijim" rug. A beautiful tribal flat-weave from Southwestern Turkey, rug is woven in the intricate "Jijim" brocading technique. The design featuring large squares containing ...

West Anatolian "Jijim" rug. A tribal flat-weave rug from Western Turkey, woven in the intricate "jijim" brocading technique, featuring a simple design of multicolored concentric diam...

One of a kind vintage Turkish runner in gold, brown, beige and gray accents, circa 1930s, measures: 2'7" x 8'1"

A colorful one of a kind room size Turkish Tulu rug handwoven with re-cycled wool derived from vintage Turkish carpets. This piece was personally hand-picked by us. 8'7'' x 12'4''

Room size mid-20th century Anatolian rug in crimson red and gray accents on beige/khaki ground. 8'9'' x 12'11''

Konya long rug or runner. A great old shaggy village runner rug from Central Turkey, woven in the characteristic long format, featuring a very basic and Prim...

West Anatolian Kilim rug. A very attractive and high quality example of kilim weaving from Western Turkey. Such rug pieces display the ability of talented weavers to interpret classi...

Square shape one of a kind Turkish wool Oushak Rug . 100 % vegetable dyed wool.

Room size Turkish Kilim in ivory and brown made from recycled cotton and goat hair material giving it an old world, vintage feel. 10'3'' x 13'4''

Mid-20th century wool Turkish runner with a geometric design on a deep purple field. Measures: 2'10''x 9'10".

Pillow made from a mid-20th-century Turkish Keysari rug in a bolster size. zipper closure and polyfill insert provided Measures: 23'' x 24''.

Tribal hand knotted mid-20th century Turkish Kilim / The background is brown and charcoal, accents in gray, light green, apricot and brown Measures: 6'4'' x 9'5''.  

Cheerful one of a kind intermediate size Turkish Kilim flat-weave. Love the bright pinks that pop up Measures: 5'6'' x 8'.

A Turkish Kars runner with a large scale geometric motif throughout Kars is a village located in Northeast of Turkey. The weavers in this area tend to make long runners and long o...

Large bolster size pillow made from a vintage Turkish Anatolian rug. Pops of bright red, outlined by brown medallions and silver accents, predominantly beige in color. Measures: 12”...

Mid-20th century red field Turkish runner with an all-over repetitive medallion design. Measures: 2'1” x 11'9”.

A handmade one of a kind midcentury Turkish Kilim featuring dazzling colors. Size: 6' x 8'6".

Large Pillow Made from a turkish anatolian Rug Size: 15'' x 28''.

An authentic 20th-century small room-size Turkish Sivas carpet. 6'5'' x 9'7''

An early 20th century Turkish Oushak with an all over geometric design on aa rose field. The border is a bright yellow. Accents in bright yellow , light green and gray Measures: 8...

Mid 20th Century Turkish Anatolian Scatter Size Rug Measures: 2'8'' x 4'.

Pillow made from an early 20th century coral tan color antique Oushak rug. Measures: 16" x 20".

an early 20th century turkish melas bagface rug Measures: 1'8'' x 2'3''.

This mid-20th century Turkish flatweave Kilim rug, measuring 9' 11" x 13' 2", features a vibrant and rhythmic striped design that embodies the artistry of Anatolian weaving tradition...

Small size pillow made from an antique Turkish Kilim flat-weave. Measures: 9” x 16''.

One of a kind vintage Turkish runner with an encased plain design on a red field.

Pillow made from a vintage Turkish Kilim Measures: 16'' x 20''.

A vintage Turkish rug with a central medallion on a pink field. accents in white and brown Measures: 3'10'' x 5'6''.

Exquisite one-of-a-kind handwoven Turkish superfine wool on silk rug with all-over leopard motif in clear white and dark brown. Measures: 8'1'' x 10'10''.

Pillow made from a mid 20th century Turkish rug. Foam and zipper closure provided Measures: 20'' x 20''.

Mut Kilim rug. A great Turkish tribal Kilim rug from the region around the town of Mut in the Taurus Mountains. Rug has striking imagery and bold color palette.

Pillow made from a vintage Turkish Kilim with cotton back. Zipper closure and foam insert provided. Measures: 16'' x 21''.

A large size one-of-a-kind 3rd quarter of the 20th century Turkish Kilim with an all-over geometric large scale pattern in ivory, green, khaki, and brown . Measures: 10'8'' x 15'...

West Anatolian "Zili" rug. A very nice old tribal flat-weave rug from Western Turkey, woven in the intricate "zili" wrapping technique. Rug has very useful proportions, quite wide an...

Antique West Anatolian long runner rug. This rug is a great example of Anatolian village weaving traditions featuring a design attributed to the Afyon-Dazkiri region. A very charming...

Superfluous antique Turkish Melas rug featuring a bright electric blue background. It was offered to us by a penthouse owner in a prominent hotel located in the heart of Istanbul, ...

Fine Kayseri rug. A very finely woven example of this type of rug with a very pleasing color palette. Rug is in excellent condition.