Tri-State Area - Turkish Rugs

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

A contemporary Turkish flatweave Kilim accent rug handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 5' 5" x 7' 6".

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

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 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...

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...

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

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

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...

More than 80 years old originating from Turkey, between 1920-1930, this antique Kilim rug hosts an exquisite, balanced medley of spectral and pastel colorways with its rich red backg...

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

:: Oversized center medallion with scalloped contour wrapped by delicate vinery and diminutive blossoms and leaves in nuanced detail atop an open field with corner spandrels reciproc...

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...

Handwoven in wool originating from Turkey circa 1950-1960, this item is a vintage Kilim rug connoting a midcentury Turkish diamond pattern emerging in this period, known for producin...

A spectacle of fine craftsmanship, this Tulu rug of the 1950s from our antique & vintage collection unveils sharp geometry in tribal designs bracing beige, midnight blue & grisailles...

Handwoven in wool, Rug & Kilim presents a spacious 9x12 contemporary rug from their innovative new patchwork kilim collection. On the design: This flat weave technique repurposes...

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...

A modern Turkish tantric accent rug from the 21st century with a pictorial design of a flayed man over a black field. Original versions were employed by ...

A contemporary Turkish flatweave Kilim large oversize carpet handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 16' 0" x 20' 8".

This vintage 6x10 rug, hand-knotted in wool, circa 1960-1970, as inspired by European influences, is a new addition to Rug & Kilim Collection. This rug is a commemoration of the mult...

Late 19th Century Turkish Oushak Carpet ( 4'4" x 11'6" - 132 x 350 )

Vintage Turkish Flat-Weave Hemp Rug 6'1 x 10'3. A vintage handwoven flat-weave hemp Kilim the weave is a simple tabby or plain weave. There are no borders. The texture is robustly co...

Handwoven in wool, Rug & Kilim presents a spacious 9x12 contemporary rug from their innovative new patchwork kilim collection. On the design: T...

Soft Pinky salmon color Turkish Oushak rug, circa 1940.

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

A modern Turkish flatweave Kilim room size carpet handmade during the 21st century with a geometric design in colorful tones perfect for a children's playroom. Measures: 12' 2" x 15' 1" 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...

A modern Turkish flat-weave Kilim large room size carpet handmade during the 21st century with a colorful geometric pattern resembling interconnected serrated edged vases in an abstr...

A modern Turkish flatweave Kilim accent rug handmade during the 21st century with a modern design in black and blue. Measures: 6' 5" x 8' 8".

19th Century Turkish Angora Oushak Carpet ( 10' x 12'4'' - 305 x 375 )

Oversized Decorative Antique Turkish Oushak Area Rug, Country of origin / rug type: Turkish rugs, Circa date: 1900. Size: 20 ft x 26 ft 6 in (6.1 m x 8.08 m)   

Antique Oushak rug. Measures: 12'2" x 14'8".

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...

A vintage Turkish Herekeh large room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. The pattern is inspired by Classic French Savonnerie and Aubusson rugs. Measures: 12' 3" x 1...

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

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

Beautifully made oriental rug in a unique circular shape. At 70" across, this would make a perfect centerpiece on the floor of your home or office. The vibrant colors and elaborate d...

An antique Turkish Oushak large room size carpet handmade during the early 20th century in gold and beige tones. Measures: 12' 10" x 15' 8".

Hand Knotted in wool circa 1960-1970, this 5x9 vintage Turkish rug features a unique play of Art Deco and mid-century modern sensibilities for its period. On the Design: Connoisse...

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...

An antique Turkish Oushak large room size carpet in square format handmade during the early 20th century. The tone-on-tone design incorporates a gold background with only light sketc...

A vintage Turkish flatweave Kilim long and narrow room size carpet in charcoal black, grey, and cream-white, handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 7' 5" x 13' 4".

A one of a kind vintage Central Anatolian rug made of hand-dyed and hand-spun wool. It has soft medium pile. Very good condition. It's soft and warm color palette has a vibrancy to i...

Handwoven in a wool flat-weave utilizing vintage yarns, this modern Kilim rug from Rug & Kilim’s Patchwork Kilim rug collection marries inspiration from midcentury flat-weave rugs wi...

This vintage 4x7 rug is a new addition to Rug & Kilim’s midcentury Pasha Collection. The line is a commemoration, with rare curations we believe to hail from multidisciplinary Turkis...

Hand-knotted in wool, a 4x8 distressed style vintage rug from the celebrated artist Zeki Muren—the latest to join Rug & Kilim’s commemorative Mid-Century Pasha collection. The piece ...

Hand-knotted in wool from Turkey circa 1940-1950, this 7x9 vintage Oushak rug is a rare curation from Rug & Kilim. On The Design: Connoisseurs will admire this piece as an extreme...

A vintage Turkish accent rug. Finely hand-knotted with even medium wool pile on cotton foundation. Very good condition. Sturdy and as clean as a brand new rug (deep washed profession...

A vintage Turkish flatweave Kilim throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century in white. Measures: 3' 0" x 5' 11"

This exquisite hand-knotted Turkish Oushak rug is crafted from plush wool and showcases a beautiful light green color palette. Its stunning all-over design is elegantly framed by ric...