Manhattan - Turkish Rugs

Vintage Turkishmat size rug depicting a rooster on an ivory field. Dated 1976 Measures: 1'10" x 2'.

Pillow made from an early 20th century Turkish rug in a soft colors with a geometric motif. zipper closure and poly-fill insert provided. Measures: 19" x 37".

An abstract midcentury Turkish Anatolian rug with a brick red field with accents in green and pink. Size: 4'6” x 7'2” Turkish carpets and rugs, whether hand knotted or flat-wov...

Pillow made from an early 20th century Turkish Kilim. Polyfill insert provided with a zipper closure Measures: 19'' x 19''.

One of a kind late 20th century Turkish Tulu room size wool rug. A fun rug to work around. Measures: 8'6'' x 10'8''.

A vintage turkish Kilim flat-weave with a directional motif of small homes.

One of the funkiest colored kilims we have ever acquired in a gallery size format Measures: 5" x 10'7'' Kilims, primarily refer to a type of flat-woven rug that was produced withou...

"Yatak" rug. A shag rug from Central Turkey, woven as a "yatak," a bed to sleep on. Very well preserved with wonderful wool and bright, cheerful colors.

A vintage Turkish Anatolian rug from the mid-20th century. Measures: 7' 3" x 9' 2".

A worn circa mid-20th century rustic color Turkish Deco rug Measures: 6'11'' x 10'4”.

Pillow made from a Turkish Sivas rug. 18'' x 19''

Mid 20th century Turkish Kilim with a Colorful Geometric Prayer Pattern in great condition Measures: 3'5'' x 5'11''.

A vintage Turkish Anatolian rug from the mid-20th century. Measures: 2' 2" x 3' 1"

Mid-20th century wool Turkish mat size rug in a predominant purple lavender tone. 1 end of the rug is striated in color. Measures: 1'10" x 3;3.

Narrow one of a kind vintage Turkish Kilim small runner.

Very unique looking one of kind Turkish piece that has been handwoven using recycled wool from old vintage Turkish Tulu. 10' x 14'8''                

Handmade Turkish mohair rug with a chocolate brown off-center medallion on an cream colored ground. Measures: 5'2'' x 6'3''.

An antique Turkish Oushak rug in runner format handmade during the early 20th century. Measures: 2' 8" x 10' 9" 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...

Quirky mid-20th century Turkish gallery rug. Pink and brown medallions on a khaki ground and brown border, circa 1940. Size: 4'7” x 12'5”.

Antique Rug Heriz Serapi Rug 107cm x 160cm Oriental Rug 4x5 High Quality 3'6" x 5'3" 107cm x 160cm Circa 1920 "This is an authentic antique piece with a magnificent geometric desig...

One of a kind, hand knotted Turkish tribal Kilim flat-weave from the second quarter of the 20th century with a rustic all-over geometric design predominantly in brick orange. Measures: 7'9" x 13' Kilims, primarily refer to a type of flat-woven rug that was produced without knotted pile. Since this is one of the oldest methods of rug production, it is considered to be Primitive...

Museum Quality Antique Silk Hereke Fine 100% Silk High Quality Silk Hereke 9'8" x 13'10" 295cm x 422cm "This is one of the highest quality antiq...

Sarouk is a name of a village situated about 25 miles north of Arak (Sultanabad). This region became one of the most active regions of carpet weaving in the late 19th century through the early 20th century. The city's most famous designer was named Farahan. To be able to compete with Kashan in rug commerce, Farahan designed rugs with center medallion motives. Today, these carpets are referred to as Antique 19th century Farahan Sarouks. In the 1920s and 1930s a well-known rug dealer in New York thought that Americans would buy rose-field carpets with blue borders and detached floral motives. During that period, a vast number of Sarouks with rose-fields and all over floral patterns were woven and exported to the American market. However, the natural dyed rose color did not stand up to the alkaline bath to which new rugs in Arak were subjected in the finishing process. The rose color faded radically. But instead of changing the finishing process or changing the composition of the dyes to stand up to alkali, New York merchants "solved" the problem by arming their staffs with synthetic dyes and little paint brushes with which they painted back in the rose-color in the entire fields of thousands and thousands of rugs and carpets over a period of 20 years. Today, Antique Sarouk rugs and carpets...

Lovely mid-20th century Russian Karabagh rug with 4 ladies and deer’s surrounded by a floral border. Love the neon green field, you see some of the green in the border too Size: 4...

Lovely pillow made from a Turkish Sivas rug. 15'' x 22''

An awesome old wool one of a kind Turkish Tulu with a colorful repetitive box design in array of different colors. The blue, charcoal, grays might stand out the most. The rug was mad...

A full pile vibrant colored Turkish Ghiordes rug from the early stages of the 20th century. 3'11'' x 6'

Wild Turkish Tulu shag runner. Original size and colors with a striped white and brown Kilim backing. 2'4'' x 8'9''

An early 20th-century antique Turkish Oushak rug circa 1920, measures: 12'4” x 14'1”.

Museum quality rare vintage 100% pure silk hereke rug kaysari rug fine high quality 3'8" x 6'1" 4' x 6' 112cm x 186cm "This is one of the highest qualit...

One of a kind decorative Vintage Turkish Konya runner in white and olive green.

Turkish deco small runner with faded predominant accents in rose, brown green, circa mid-20th century. Measures: 3'6" x 6'11".

An antique Turkish Oushak room size carpet handmade during the Early 20th century. Measures: 11' 2" x 13' 7"

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

A scatter-sized antique Turkish Oushak rug 3'6'' x 4'10''

Museum quality rare vintage 100% pure silk hereke rug kaysari rug fine high quality 3x5 2'10" x 4'6" 87cm x 138cm "This is one of the highest quality antique silk rugs that we have seen in our 40 years in the trade. It is 100% silk pile and foundation. This vintage Silk Hereke Kaysari has a very fine weave and intricate design indicating master weaver workmanship. We received it from a home where it was displayed hanging on the wall for a long time. It is in great original shape with no repairs or work at all. All four sides are intact and original. This is a great long term investment quality piece."-DCR History Hereke carpets are only produced in Hereke, a coastal town in Turkey, 60 km from Istanbul. The materials used are silk, a combination of wool and cotton and sometimes gold or silver threads. The Ottoman sultan...

A matching pair of mid-20th century Turkish Anatolian rugs a tribal motif in red and white on a chocolate brown field Measuring 18” x 33” and 18' x 35” respectively.

Larger bolster size pillow made from a vintage Turkish Kilim flat-weave. Measures: 16” x 34”.

Pillow made from an antique Turkish prayer rug. Measures: 17" x 23".

A mid-20th century bright colored Turkish rug with a deco inspired Tetris game mosaic style design. You can have some fun with this.

Amid 20th century Turkish Tulu Runner with an abstract motif with an array of colors Measures: 2'10” x 11'3”.

a small square size antique turkish oushak rug from the 2nd quarter of the 20th century Details rug no. 29494 size 3' 10" x 5' 2" (117 x 157 cm)

Pillow made from a vintage turkish oushak rug in soft gray' blue and pinks and red border on 1 side. 16'' x 23'

One of a kind vintage Turkish mat from the 20th century. All you got to do is look at the colors! A fun rug indeed Measures: 1'8" x 3'11".

Vintage one of a kind Turkish Anatolian runner with a geometric design in a predominant orange color. Measures: 2'11" x 15'2".

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

Pillow made from a vintage Turkish Oushak rug in beige and brown Measures: 17'' x 18''.

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 one of a kind antique decorative Turkish Ghiordes rug.

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 midcentury intermediate size Besserabian Kilim with floral elements throughout. 5'6'' x 9'8''

A fine narrow and small Turkish Sivas runner in rich red and gold tones. 2' x 6'5''

Vintage Ivory Turkish Kilim rug runner 5'9 X 11'9. This vintage Turkish flat weave Kilim was hand-woven in the 1940's. The simplicity and boldness of this piece can also give a conte...

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...

Antique Turkish Sivas rug in reds, brown, blues and mustard. 3'10'' x 6'

An early 20th-century Turkish Oushak in gray and lavender. 11'1'' x 12'6''

A large pillow made from a shabby chic Turkish deco rug. Measures: 18” x 25”.

Weather textured Turkish Anatolian small square rug from the mid-20th century. Measures: 2'4" x 2'7".

The light straw field of this good condition vintage central Anatolian kellegi shows a windblown, floating flower and leaf all-over textile pattern. Borderless. Sand, light brown and...

A white color Turkish Cotton Rug with a silky sheen and patina.