Tri-State Area - Turkish Rugs

A vintage 2x2 square tribal rug inRug & Kilim’s newest curation of rare Persian tribal pieces. Hand-knotted in wool circa 1950-1960 with a playful attitude, exemplary of this provena...

A vintage Anatolian Turkish Yastik rug mat Measures: 1'6” x 3'2”

A vintage Turkish Anatolian room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 8' 6" x 10' 4".

A modern Turkish flatweave Kilim room size carpet handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 11' 7" x 14' 2"

A vintage Turkish flatweave Kilim room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century in shades of grey and silver. Measures: 8' 1" x 12' 8".

A vintage 3x3 Persian Gabbeh rug, making a grand entry to Rug & Kilim’s curation of rare tribal pieces. Hand-knotted in wool, originating circa 1950-1960. ...

A vintage Turkish Sivas rug with a pictorial depiction of the story of Adam and Eve, from the mid-20th century.

Gorgeous Large Silk & Wool Modern Allover Floral Design Rug, Country of origin: Turkey, Circa date: Modern

A vintage Turkish flat-weave Kilim accent rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 6' 2" x 8' 3".

Antique Turkish Kula rug, size: 4'0" x 6'4".

A vintage Turkish Sivas accent rug handmade during the mid-20th century with an all-over tone on tone field and border combination in cream and blonde separated and distinguished onl...

West Anatolia is one of the largest weaving regions in Turkey. Since the 15th century, Turkish rugs have always been on top of the list for having fine oriental rugs. Oushak rugs s...

Beautiful contemporary Moroccan style runner hand knotted wool rug with a navy-blue field. This modern rug has an ivory accent in a gorgeous all-over geometric tribal design. This...

Beautiful Modern Kilim hand knotted wool rug with a geometric abstract design on a beige field and brown accents throughout the piece. This rug measures 9'2" x 12'2".

A vintage Turkish Sivas carpet from the second quarter of the 20th century.

Connoting the celebrated tribal style, this 6x13 kilim rug hails from a special new curation of mid century flat weaves. This flatweave from Turkey enjoys a rare and desirable shade ...

Hand-knotted in wool, this 5x8 vintage rug originating from Turkey, circa 1960-1970, is a very special piece, featuring a light and refreshing mid-century classical design we believe...

Hand-knotted in wool and originating from Turkey circa 1960 – 1970, this 4x8 vintage Zeki Müren rug is a unique addition to the Rug & Kilim Collection for its wide range of colors an...

Hand-knotted in wool and originating from Turkey circa 1960 – 1970, this 4x7 vintage Zeki Müren rug is a unique addition to the Rug & Kilim Collection for its wide range of colors an...

A modern Turkish square room size carpet handmade during the 21st century. The design and weave are inspired by vintage Swedish rugs from the mid-20th century period. Measures: 9'...

Beautiful contemporary Moroccan style runner rug, hand knotted wool with a black field, ivory accents in a gorgeous all-over tribal design. This rug measures: 2'1" x 12'2".

This vintage 6x9 rug, hand-knotted in wool, circa 1960-1970, is a new addition to Rug & Kilim Collection. This line is a commemoration, with rare curations we believe to hail from mu...

1900s Room square size antique oushak rug Details rug no. j4433 size 10' 5" x 11' 7" (318 x 353 cm)

Antique Turkish Oushak Handmade Wool rug Size: 12'0" × 14'2" (365 × 431 cm) An early 20th century Turkish Oushak antique rug, the pale field, having a garden design of weeping willow...

Hand-knotted in wool and originating from Turkey circa 1960 – 1970, this 3x6 vintage Zeki Müren runner is a unique addition to the Rug & Kilim Collection for its wide range of colors...

Fine modern (2015) Turkish Kilim rug. Has a multicolored, geometric patchwork design on a lightly textured field with a thin brown border along two edges. Measures 8.07x11.08.

An antique Turkish Sivas carpet from the early 20th century. Measures: 9' 11" x 14' 5"

Hand knotted in wool originating from Turkey circa 1900-1910, this antique rug connotes a traditional Kurdish rug design with a coarse, lush knotting in the richer hues cordoned off ...

Originating from Turkey in 1960, this vintage Turkish wool kilim employs a Bassarabian all over field design, reminiscent of the French-European style dating back to the 19th century...

A modern Turkish flatweave Kilim accent rug handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 6' 8" x 9' 7".

A modern Turkish flat-woven Kilim style rug from the 21st century.

Early 20th Century Turkish Oushak Carpet ( 10' x 13' - 304 x 396 cm )

An antique Turkish Sivas carpet from the early 20th century.

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

This rug presents a tranquil and sophisticated palette of earthy browns and soft beige, exuding a sense of quiet elegance. The field is adorned with large, blooming floral motifs, me...

Early 20th Century Turkish Oushak Carpet ( 10'5'' x 12'6'' - 318 x 382 )

Hand-knotted in wool circa 1960-1970, this 3x7 vintage runner rug is believed to be among the rare works of Turkish artist Zeki Müren. On the Design: A polychromatic colorway stri...

Hand-knotted in wool, a distressed style rug from the celebrated artist Zeki Muren with abstract and art deco inspirations is one of his latest pieces to join Rug & Kilim’s Midcentur...

A vintage Turkish Anatolian tribal room size carpet handmade during the Mid-20th Century. Measures: 9' 11" x 12' 10".

Vintage 1960's Turkish Kilim rug with a multicolored all over geometric design. Measures approximately 4 feet 3 inches by 7 feet 8 inches.

This vintage 2x8 tribal Kilim is a unique mid-century curation, and an ideal table runner given its narrow size. Handwoven in wool, it originates from Turkey circa 1950-1960. Furt...

Authentic Turkish Oushak Handmade Wool Carpet Size: 13'9" x 17'0" (419 x 518 cm) Antique Oushak rugs belong to the crème de la crème of Turkish weavings due to the exceptional skill ...

A 5 x 11 antique rug of Khotan design lineage, hand knotted in wool from East Turkestan, circa 1920-1920. Enjoying a medallion pattern in all over style with beige-brown and pink hue...

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

Made with hand-knotted wool, this 1x4 gift-sized vintage Turkish rug originating circa 1950-1960, is from the collection of mid-century rugs with antique washes giving them that old-...

Made with hand-knotted wool, this 1x3 gift-sized vintage Turkish rug originating circa 1950-1960, is a bold new addition to Rug & Kilim’s curation of rare and collectible mid-century...

This vintage 4x13 rug is a rare midcentury curation in Rug & Kilim’s Antique & Vintage Collection. hand knotted wool, it originates from Turkey circa 1950-1960 as a most unusual piec...

Dancing curvilinear patterns paired with a classic sense of eastern symmetry lend this antique Hereke rug tones of grandeur and whimsy alike. Originating from Turkey between 1910-192...

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

Finely hand-knotted in Turkey originating between 1960-1970, this vintage mid-century runner belongs to Rug & Kilim’s midcentury Pasha collection that celebrates the Turkish icon and multidisciplinary designer Zeki Müren with Josh’s hand picked favorites from this period. Embracing a vibrant and rich colorway, the piece features a gorgeous multicolour geometric...

Antique Oushak Rug 10'10" x 11'0"

This antique Sivas rug embodies understated sophistication with its soft neutral palette, featuring warm beige, ivory, and pale gray tones that blend seamlessly into a delicately fad...

Decorative Silk & Wool Geometric Modern Contemporary Rug, Country of origin: Turkey, Circa date: Modern

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A finely hand-knotted vintage Turkish carpet from 1960s. The rug has even low wool pile on cotton foundation. It is heavy and lays flat on the floor, in very good condition with no i...

A vintage Turkish Anatolian throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 3' 6" x 4' 11" 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...

Antique Oushak rug, measures: 8'9" x 11'0".

A vintage Turkish Anatolian carpet from the mid-20th century. Measures: 5' 5" x 7' 9"