New York City - Turkish Rugs

This Antique Turkish Kilim Rug, a handwoven treasure measuring 4'4" x 6'2", crafted in Turkey with a design reminiscent of Navajo textiles. Dating to the early 20th century, this fla...

A vintage 2x3 rug from the Mid-Century Pasha Collection by Rug & Kilim—curating works of multi-disciplinary Turkish artist, Zeki Müren. On the Desig...

One-of-a-kind pillow made from a vintage Turkish rug with cotton back. Zipper closure and foam insert provided. 16'' x 16''.

Pillow made from a vintage Turkish Kilim with colorful pops of wool stitched on giving it a bohemian vibe. Zipper closure and foam insert provided. Measures: 23" x 24".

Sunny yellow Oushak style rug made from 100 % hand-spun vegetable dyed recycled wool giving it an old world and vintage feel. This piece is part of a new, unique, one of a kind colle...

An elegant Turkish Sivas carpet with soft pink, green and ivory hues. 8'2'' x 12'3'' Sivas is a city in North Central Turkey, which is a major production site of Turkish rugs based...

Beautiful Tribal Long And Narrow Vintage Kars Rug From Turkey, Origin: Turkey, Circa date: Vintage

This vintage 5x8 European style rug, hand-knotted in wool, circa 1960-1970, has been inspired by Savonnerie and Aubusson rugs in some of its elements. It is believed to hail from the...

A rare throw Size Antique Khotan Rug from the late 19th century Purchased from a collection in Washington DC. Measures: 2' x 3'7'.

This striking Khotan rug, crafted in 1920 and hailing from Turkmenistan, boasts a captivating palette of red ochre and sangria tones. With dimensions measuring 4X6, it features a mes...

Handwoven in fine quality wool, a 5x7 kilim rug from Turkey circa 1950-1960 joining our Kilim & Flatweave collection. The vintage flat weave enjoys...

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

A narrow and long Turkish Runner from the 1st quarter of the 20th century 1'7'' x 10'5''

Hand-knotted in wool, circa 1960-1970, originating from Turkey, this 7x10 vintage rug is a classic Zeki Müren masterpiece. Its design with Art Deco-inspired geometric patterns, makes...

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...

3'5 x 5'8. This rug has an Abrash which is a natural change in color that occurs when different dyes are used in a batch of wool and gives uniqueness an extra beauty to the rug. Even...

A mid-20th century authentic Turkish rug depicting a lion on a striated purple ground. Measures: 1'10" x 3'2”.

Antique Kirsehir rug. A lovely antique Central Anatolian rug, from a region well-known with its prayer rugs, featuring a more unusual design. Good ran...

a one-of-a-kind cotton and wool Turkish Kilim handmade from the late 20th century Details rug no. 10701 size 13'3" x 16'9" Kilims, primarily refer to a type of flat-woven rug tha...

a one-of-a-kind cotton and wool Turkish Kilim handmade from the late 20th century Details rug no. 10707 size 13'3" x 15'8" Kilims, primarily refer to a type of flat-woven rug tha...

A modern Turkish flat-weave Kilim large room size carpet handmade during the 21st century with a colorful horizontally striped pattern. A statement piece with its bright and whimsica...

Pillow made from a Turkish flat-weave jajim . Measures: 13'' x 38''.

Early 20th century authentic Oushak square scatter rug Measures: 4' x 4'6'' Oushak rugs are prized for their rich looks as well as for their high quality and exceptional beaut...

A 3rd quarter of the Century Turkish Tulu shag rug with bright funky colors. 3'8'' x 4'8''

One of a kind hand knotted Turkish Zeki Muren rug Measures: 6'9'' x 9'6" Zeki Muren was a famous Turkish musician back in the middle of the 20th century who studied decorative arts in Istanbul at the Fine Arts Academy while launching his musical career. Muren’s first album was issued in 1951, at which time he was a regular singer on Istanbul Radio. In 1955, he produced his first Gold Record...

an early 20th century small room size Turkish Ghiordes decorative rug. Measures: 10'3'' x 14'3''.

Hand-knotted in wool and originating from Turkey circa 1960 – 1970, this 6x10 vintage Zeki Müren rug is a unique addition to the Rug & Kilim Collection for its wide range of colors a...

Double-sided pillow we made from a vintage Turkish Kilim. 19'' x 24''

This is an attractive interpretation of a much older design, but with a modern ecru field. The rectangular mosaic chessboard is embedded in an openwork lozenge, with stepped blue tri...

A rather large early 20th century Turkish Oushak with an all-over prayer niche motif design. 10' x 17'3''

An early 20th-century Turkish Yastik Antique Rug Measures: 1'7” x 3'3”.

West Anatolian "Zili" rug. A lovely old tribal flat-weave rug from Western Turkey, woven in the intricate and labor-intensive "zili" brocading technique. The bright and happy colors ...

A Mid-Century room size Turkish deco rug with an all -over diamond shaped motif on a raspberry background. Measures: 8'2'' x 10'5''.

This 21st century Turkish Flatweave Kilim rug, measuring 9' 6" x 12' 10", features a beautifully structured patchwork composition that highlights the artistry of traditional weaving ...

Antique grain sack 'open' rug. An old tribal cargo bag or rug from SW Turkey, opened up, still retaining its original carrying band. Can be a wall-hanging, a...

A mid-20th century pictorial double lion pictorial rug. Measures: 4' x 7'7''.

Fantastic Kayseri carpet or rug. A great old Turkish carpet from the Kayseri region in Central Turkey, with a highly unusual design and color palette. Though inspired by classical th...

This 10x16 antique Turkish rug of Sivas provenance is a rich and exciting new curation from Rug & Kilim’s collection of important classics—a particularly unique find among works of a...

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Large square size pillow made from a border of a tribal Turkish Anatolian rug from the 20th century. Size: 19" x 20".

A handmade midcentury Turkish retro style rug from the third quarter of the 20th century, Measures 4'9" x 5'4''.

Mid-20th Century Turkish Tulu Rug circa 20th century. Measures: 4'2" x 6'11".  

A very large tribal flat-weave from Southeastern Turkey, woven with wool and goat hair in multicolored vertical bands. A kilim like this would have been used as a utilitarian, everyd...

This 9x11 antique Turkish rug of Oushak provenance is a rich and exciting new curation from Rug & Kilim’s collection of important classics—a particularly unique find among works of a...

Hand-knotted in wool, a 7x9 distressed style vintage rug from the celebrated artist Zeki Muren - one of his latest pieces to join Rug & Kilim’s Mid-Century Pasha collection. The rust...

A funky handwoven Turkish deco rug from the middle of the 20th century Measures: 5'1'' x 8'4''.

A vintage Turkish flat-weave Kilim room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 10' 1" x 14' 0" 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 Egyptian weavers used it for ornaments on garments and larger wall hangings. Slits can be avoided by dovetailing of colors (warp sharing) or by interlocking the wefts. The Navajo weavers of the Southwest practice the first while the fine shawl weavers of Kashmir and Kerman employed the second. Interlocking produces a one-faced fabric, with smooth and rough, ridged faces. The typical Turkish, Caucasian, or Persian rustic kilim shows slits, but never long ones. Aubusson French carpets are also slit tapestries and the long color transitions are sewn up as part of the regular maintenance. Some kilims are very fine. The best antique urban Sehna (Senna) kilims on wool, cotton or silk warps approximate the comparable rugs in refinement and are the most desirable of all Persian kilims. Although the various flatweave techniques are usually expressed in geometric, simple, often repeating, patterns, Sehna kilims demonstrate that even the most intricate designs can be effectively rendered in flat-stich. The term ‘kilim’ has been extended to cover any pileless, weft-faced heavy textile. Thus, the sectioned and joined northeastern Persian horizontally striped wool rugs are called ‘kilims’. So are the plain-weave end finishes of pile rugs. All these are weft-faced, weft patterned flatweaves. These sectioned pieces are woven not on a frame loom, but one steadied by the weaver at one end and with the warps fastened down at the other. Only relatively recent have these tribal pieces become available. They are used as floorcoverings, hangings, room dividers, furniture covers. They are mostly bitonal in shades of natural dark brown and beige. Some more recent pieces show weaver innovations with ikat and moire effects. Work proceeds quickly and a skilled weaver can complete a thirty foot strip in almost no time. Wefts, the elements added as weaving progresses, play an essential part in what is a flatweave. The best-known example of an extra-weft, wrapping technique is on Caucasian and tribal Persian Soumaks, where a pattern weft wraps around the fixed warp, changing as weaving progresses. Soumaks can be large carpets, Kuba in the Caucasus, small bag faces (Caucasian and Persian Shah Savan saddle bags), or cover scatter rugs (Persian Afshars). The Soumak technique is fast, and a weaver can work much more quickly than tying knots. The left-over wefts are cut off on the back, so the front and back are initially different. As a Soumak on the floor gets used, these weft yarns wear away and the two sides converge although the exact texture remains distinct. There are other ways of pattern by weft. Often on smaller tribal pieces, the pattern weft(s) is (are) part of the weft structure, moving in an out, and holding the whole thing together. These wefts can be complementary or added (supplementary), continuous across the flatweave or cut off as they travel unneeded across the verso. Supplementary weft flatweaves are often very compact and substantial. The nomadic Turkmen and Balouch tribes employ both supplementary and complementary weft techniques on their pieces. Supplementary wefts are often raised on the recto (front) while complementary wefts are flat to the surface. Tribal Kurds employ this extra-wefting technique. The Balouch of Pakistan use complementary wefts almost exclusively on their small woven paraphernalia like salt bags. Flatweave techniques may be combined on a single piece. Afshar rugs employ plain-weave end strips, preceded by Soumak bands, with pile sections between. The large Bakhtiari saddlebags feature Soumak work, pile “islands” an areas of plain-weave. Qashqai rugs and kilims frequently displays checkerboard end strips in continuous, complementary wefting. Another distinct flatweave type is the jajim (jijim, cecim) in which a pattern is added with colored wefts as the weaving of the plain-weave ground progresses. Here the wefts are discontinuous and the pattern stands proud from the voided ground. Often made in two pieces on narrow looms and edge-sewn together, these may have geometric patterns. The term ‘jajim’ also refers to the assembled warp-faced strip and stripe covers from the Shah Savan of northwest Persia, the pattern is defined by warps alone, usually in plain stripes, but sometimes in designs of ladders, snakes, human figures and various animals. Here the color changing warps are continuous. Most are wool, a few are silk. Better to call these something else. Indian ‘Dhurries’ are all cotton kilims and ‘shatrangis’ employ wool wefts on cotton warps. Dhurries are slitless. The cotton texture is more appropriate to the humid and warm climate of the Indian subcontinent. Modern Dhurries...

Mid-20th Century Colorful Turkish Jajim kilim Measures: 3'8'' x 6'9” With the Jijim weaving technique, different colored threads are applied between the weft and warp threads, on ...

A vintage Turkish Art Deco room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 9' 5" x 12' 2"

A vintage Turkish Anatolian throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 1' 7" x 2' 4"

Vintage Turkish runner highlighted by a predominant soft pink color. Measures: 2'8" x 12'7".

An early 20th century oversize Turkish Oushak rug with an all-over design on a pink ground Measures: 12'2'' x 17'6''.

An old rug from Central Turkey in the "tülü" tradition with soft and shaggy pile, woven entirely with hand-spun, un-dyed, natural brown wool. Such rugs were originally used as beds...

A vintage Turkish Sivas accent rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 6'4" x 9'6".

A Room size one-of-a-kind 3rd quarter of the 20th century Turkish Kilim with an all-over geometric large scale pattern Measures: 8'2'' x 12'7''.

A Classic Turkish Kilim in unusually large size. Woven in two symmetrical halves, as is characteristic of this type.

Hand-knotted in wool, a 5x8 vintage rug from an innovative Turkish atelier entering Rug & Kilim’s commemorative Mid-Century Pasha Collection. This alluring piece enjoys a disting...

This Mid-20th century Turkish Flatweave Kilim rug, measuring 10' 3" x 13' 7", presents a captivating patchwork design composed of handwoven Kilim fragments. Each segment tells its ow...

Originating from Turkey between 1890-1900, this antique traditional Gordas rug features a medallion field design with floral patterns reminiscent of Art Deco style. Hand knotted in d...

This blue Turkish overdyed Sparta carpet has a pattern defined by the wear beyond the all-over general distress. Vertical and horizontal off white strips cross near the center. Shabb...