Manhattan - Turkish Rugs

A mid-20th century Turkish Oushak gallery size rug Measures: 5'6'' x 13'2''.

A vintage Turkish flatweave Kilim room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 10' 4" x 12' 10".

This cubist style Art Deco rug is styled after Zeki Muren, who is a multidisciplinary Turkish artist, known for his bold, geometric, and whimsical des...

Vintage Turkish Oushak Rug 7'5 X 10'4. Hand-woven in Turkey where rug weaving is the culture rather than a business. Rugs from Turkey are known for the high quality of their wool the...

A vintage Turkish flatweave Kilim square room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 10' 2" x 10' 7"

Mid 19th Century Central Asian Tekke Turkmen Carpet (6'9'' x 10'3'' - 206 x 312)

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

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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 ...

Like many of our rugs, this Oushak tells a story. Decades have come and gone but this rug remains, nearly 100 years since being knotted together. A former bright clean red has been f...

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...

The Mid-Century Modern Collection is skillfully sourced by N A S I R I and exclusive to our showroom. These flatweaves embody the minimalist sophistication that emerged in the mid-20...

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

The buff field is centrally dominated by a pointed cruciform rust medallion enclosing five palmettes, four of which are axially radiating. Stepped corners with flowers. Rust borde...

Vintage Turkish Oushak Area Rug, 3'7 X 5'8. Even today, Oushak rugs are still the first choice of professional interior designers. Sometimes this is because when grading Oushak carpe...

Our Mid-Century Modern Collection is skillfully sourced. These flatweaves embody the Minimalist sophistication that emerged in the mid-20th century which continues to thrive today. W...

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...

Ref 39184

A vintage Turkish Anatolian small room size tribal carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 8' 1" x 10' 6"

Vintage Turkish Handwoven Kilim Rug 5'4 x 9'5. This vintage Turkish flat-weave Kilim was handwoven in the 1950s. The simplicity and boldness of these pieces can also give a contempor...

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

A contemporary Turkish room size carpet handmade during the 21st century inspired by Moroccan carpets from the mid-20th century period. Measures: 8' 11" x 12' 0".

Vintage Shabby Chic Turkish Oatmeal Oushak Runner 2'9 x 10'1. Distressed, shabby chic. The rug is solid but with low pile and a distressed look that adds to its beauty and charm. The...

Antique Turkish Tuduc rug, Country of Origin: Turkey, Circa date: 1900. Size: 6 ft 4 in x 11 ft (1.93 m x 3.35 m).

19th Century Konya Bozkir Carpet 5' 3" x 7' 10"

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

Vintage Subdued Turkish Oushak Runner 4'7 X 11'3. Oushak's are known for their soft palettes combined with eccentric drawing. Oushak in western Turkey has the longest continuous rug ...

A Turkish Flatweave large carpet in a modern rustic style handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 12' 3" x 16' 3"

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...

1940 Vintage Hand Woven Turkish Kayseri Silk Rug, Taupe, 3'11 x 5'7. Kayseri rugs are handwoven in or around the city of Kayseri in central Turkey. The best-known rugs from this dist...

The Mid-Century Modern Collection is skillfully sourced by N A S I R I and exclusive to our showroom. These flatweaves embody the minimalist sophistication that emerged in the mid-20...

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

A vintage Turkish flatweave Kilim room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 8' 3" x 10' 8"

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

A Turkish Flatweave large room size carpet in the modern rustic style handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 12' 7" x 15' 5"

Anatolian rugs originated from Anatolia, also referred to as Asian Turkey, due to its geographical location. They are hand-knotted, pile rugs made of natural fibers and dyes. Many of...

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

This is a beautiful handwoven Turkish flatweave rug from the 1960s that consists of all wool and is naturally dyed. We offer custom recreations i...

A vintage Turkish flatweave Kilim room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 8' 7" x 10' 4"

This vintage cubist rug was handmade in Turkey circa mid-20th century. It is in the style of Zeki Muren, a multidisciplinary Turkish artist, known for his b...

Beautiful Neutral Silk & Wool Large Decorative Modern Rug, Country of origin: Turkey, Circa date: Modern

This vintage Art Deco rug was handmade in Turkey circa mid-20th century. It is in the style of Zeki Muren, a multidisciplinary Turkish artist, known for his bold, geometric, and whim...

These flatweaves embody the Minimalist sophistication that emerged in the mid-20th century which continues to thrive today. We bridge the elements of the past with the present using ...

This flatweave rug is made with handspun wool, cotton, and natural dyes. It is inspired by the antique kilims that are native to the Kurdish region in Iran. NASIRI continues their ri...

Vintage Turkish Oushak rug runner, 3'4' x 6'1'. Oushak's are known for their soft palettes combined with eccentric drawing. Oushak in western Turkey has the longest continuous rug we...

This Charmo flatweave rug is made with handspun wool, cotton, and natural dyes. It is inspired by the antique kilims that are native to the Kurdish region in Iran. NASIRI continues t...

Vintage Turkish Oushak Rug 4'7 x 7'5. This lovely Rug hand knotted in Turkey in the 1940's has a natural abrash (color change) common in old pieces and giving a uniqueness to the rug...

A Turkish Anatolian accent carpet with a contemporary design handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 6' 7" x 9' 11"

These flat weaves embody the Minimalist sophistication that emerged in the mid-20th century which continues to thrive today. We bridge the elements of the past with the present using...

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 the Mazandaran Province in central-northern Iran just below the Caspian Sea. Although being woven for centuries, the kilims were only recently discovered because they were solely created for in-house use and bridal dowries. NASIRI is honored to be continuing this rich tradition of Mazandaran flatweaves...

Ref 87273

This Charmo flatweave rug is inspired by the antique kilims that are native to the Kurdish region in Iran. NASIRI continues their rich tradition of rug making by applying the same te...

This vintage-washed Oushak runner features a refined palette of pale ivory, muted coral, soft sky blue, and hints of taupe. The central medallions are framed by elegant botanical flo...

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

The abrashed light brown field shows a 4/3/4… pattern of floating, knotted squares enclosing octogramme stars, with a medium brown border of smaller, similar stars. Moderate weave. ...

This vintage flat-weave rug was crafted in Turkey, circa mid-20th century. Using ancient techniques of carpet making, the artisan weavers styled this rug with the finest hand-carded,...

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...

An antique Turkish silk Kayseri carpet from the second quarter of the 20th century.

A contemporary Turkish flatweave Kilim large room size carpet handmade during the 21st century in shades of white and black. This patchwork style rug consists of hand-weaving togethe...