New York - Turkish Rugs

Hand-knotted in wool, circa 1960 - 1970, this 4x7 vintage Zeki Müren Art Deco rug is another rare piece from his more playful mid-century modern in...

Hand Knotted in wool, this 4x7 vintage Zeki Múren rug originating from Turkey, circa 1960-1970, features a unique play of Art Deco and mid-century modern sensibilities for a Turkish ...

Handwoven in wool and originating from Moldova circa 1950-1960, this 5x7 vintage Bessarabian Kilim and flatweave rug is a particularly special new curation from Rug & Kilim's Europea...

Hand woven in wool and originating from Turkey, this flat-woven geometric Kilim runner from Rug & Kilim’s patchwork collection marries inspirati...

The four layered spearhead cypresses of the ivory border frame the palest powder blue ground set within rich goldenrod corners. A central vertical stem of palmettes is supported by s...

A finely hand-knotted vintage Central Anatolian rug with a classic garden design with flowers, spandrels, blossoms, leaves and branches. Size: 8 x 11 Ft. Wool pile on a tightly woven...

Hand-knotted in wool, a vintage 5x9 Tulu rug joining Rug & Kilim’s Antique & Vintage collection. Originating from Turkey circa 1980-1990, the rug features a luxurious pile in solid b...

Flat-woven in high-quality wool originating from Turkey between 1940-1950, this vintage Gal Kilim rug hosts an intriguing pallet of vibrant rich and pastel colorways complementing a ...

Hand-knotted in wool, circa 1960 - 1970, this 4x6 vintage Müren Art Deco rug is an exciting new curation from Rug & Kilim. Its design nods to the atomic age and mid-century modern se...

Hand-knotted in wool, this 5x8 vintage Turkish Art Deco rug joins Rug & Kilim’s Mid-Century Pasha Collection. This repertoire features the iconic works of the legendary designer Zeki...

This vintage 5x7 Art Deco rug, hand-knotted in wool, circa 1960-1970, features a mid-century take on Art Deco and cubist sensibilities, with Zeki Müren’s sought-after sense of playfu...

Handwoven in a wool flat-weave originating from Turkey circa 1910-1920, this antique Kilim rug enjoys an early 20th century Kurdish Kilim design, a wide runner in size with both trad...

Hand-knotted in wool originating from Turkey circa 1950-1960, a rare vintage mid-century pictorial rug in beige and brown colors. Enjoying a tasteful abrash in the background and fie...

Among the most unique inspirations of Bessarabian provenance, an 8x10 vintage Kilim rug handwoven in wool circa 1950-1960. The piece is one o...

This vintage 2x8 runner is a new addition to Rug & Kilim’s commemorative Mid-Century Pasha Collection. This line is a commemoration of rare curations we b...

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

This 4x7 Vintage Müren Art Deco rug, hand made in wool, is a Mid-century curation from Rug & Kilim. It features a postmodern take on design, but with a Japanese sensibility. On the...

A modern Turkish large carpet with tassels and braided fringes. Handmade during the 21st century, this carpet is inspired by vintage Moroccan carpets from the Mid-20th Century period...

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...

Handwoven in wool, Rug & Kilim presents a 6x9 contemporary rug from their innovative new patchwork kilim collection. On the Design: This fla...

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...

Handwoven with high-quality wool originating from Turkey between 1940-1950, this vintage geometric Kilim rug enjoys a tastefully abrashed pallet of muted-but-lively blue, orange, gol...

A vintage Turkish flat-woven Kilim carpet from the mid-20th century.

Antique Turkish Oushak Rug Doris Leslie Blau Size: 12'4" × 14'1" (375 × 429 cm) This antique Turkish Oushak rug (circa 1920) showcases a botanical and casual design dominated by soft...

Pillow made from an early 20th century turkish rug. poly fill insert provided with a zipper closure 16'' x 16''

Handwoven in wool, Rug & Kilim presents a 3x8 contemporary runner from their innovative new patchwork kilim collection. On the Design: This flat weave technique repurposes vi...

Various styles of vigorously drawn leaves in light blue and orange decorate the centrally organized red field of this circa 1900 Oushak from west Turkey. The light blue main border s...

A contemporary Turkish large room size carpet handmade during the 21st century inspired by Moroccan carpets from the mid-20th century period. Measures: 13' 9" x 16' 2".

This contemporary Kilim represents a selection of distinct new patterns joining Rug & Kilim’s new and modern collection, uniquely handwoven from the yarns of Classic textiles and Kil...

Handwoven in wool, Rug & Kilim presents a spacious 8x8 circle rug from their innovative new patchwork kilim collection. On the Design: This flat weave technique repurposes vintag...

A vintage 4x5 Persian Gabbeh rug in the latest entry to Rug & Kilim’s curation of rare tribal pieces. Hand-knotted in wool circa 1950-1960. On the Design: This piece emanates a...

Handwoven in wool, Rug & Kilim presents a 7x10 contemporary rug from their innovative new patchwork kilim collection. On the Design: This flat ...

Handwoven in wool, Rug & Kilim presents a 6x9 contemporary rug from their innovative new patchwork kilim collection. On the Design: This fla...

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...

Hand knotted in high-quality wool originating from Turkey between 1870-1880, this antique Oushak wool rug presents an intriguing combination of...

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

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

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

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...

This Turkish Oushak carpet created circa 1880 consists of a handspun wool warp, weft and hand-knotted pile. It is an exceptional example of an Oushak made for internal use, which is ...

This vintage 3x6 runner is a new addition to Rug & Kilim’s Mid-Century Pasha Collection. This line is a commemoration, with rare curations we believe to hail from multidisciplinary T...

Hand-knotted in wool circa 1920-1930, a 5x7 antique Bessarabian rug of rare provenance and rustic beauty. This particular medallion style bears a subtle similarity to European car...

A modern Turkish room size carpet handmade during the 21st century with a braided design in white and grey. Measures: 9' 0" x 12' 4".

A vintage Turkish flat-weave Kilim room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century in shades of white. Measures: 9' 1" x 13' 10" Flat-weave Rugs & Carpets: Knotted pile ...

A vintage Turkish flat-weave Kilim small room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century in shades of red orange. Measures: 7' 10" x 11' 0" Knotted pile rugs are just one...

This vintage 5x8 distressed style rug is a new addition to Rug & Kilim’s Mid-Century Pasha Collection. This line is a commemoration, with rare curations we believe to hail from multi...

This vintage 4x7 rug in art deco style is a new addition to Rug & Kilim’s Mid-Century Pasha Collection. This line is a commemoration, with rare curations we believe to hail from mult...

Vintage Turkish Oushak Runner Rug 5'3 X 10'11. These attractive rugs are suitable for a wide variety of places, but the significant effect of Oushaks is that they bring space togethe...

A vintage Turkish flat-weave Kilim room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 10' 7" x 13' 7" 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...

A vintage Turkish flatweave Kilim room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 9' 11" x 13' 3".

A vintage 2x6 mid-century runner from the Mid-Century Pasha Collection by Rug & Kilim — celebrating the rare styles believed to hail from multi-disciplinary Turkish icon, Zeki Müren....

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

A vintage Turkish Anatolian square room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century with a large scale tribal design over a solid orange background with light and dark striation...

Vintage Turkish Oushak Rug 3'3 X 6'3. The central Abrash (color change) in the field gives this rug a wonderful look and feel. Abrash is a color change that normally occurs when the ...

From Rug & Kilim Principal Josh Nazmiyal’s latest acquisitions, a stunning 3x10 vintage kilim runner originating from Turkey circa 1950-1960. On the Design: An earthy play of bei...

An antique Turkish Oushak gallery carpet handmade during the early 20th century. Measures: 7' 0" x 13' 3".

A vintage Turkish flat-weave Kilim throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century with a tribal design. Measures: 3' 6" x 5' 0" Flat-weave Rugs & Carpets: Knotted pile rugs ar...

Beautiful Antique Oushak Turkish Rug Runner, Country of Origin / Rug Type: Turkish Rug, Circa Date: 1900. Size: 4 ft 6 in x 14 ft (1.37 m x 4.27 m)...