Tri-State Area - Turkish Rugs

A vintage Turkish flatweave Kilim room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 9' 2" x 12' 0".

Hand knotted in Turkey originating between 1960-1970, this vintage mid-century wool rug is the latest to join our Midcentury Pasha collection, celebrating Turkish icon and multidisci...

This vintage Arts & Crafts 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, an...

A light lime green open field is centred by a pale salmon medallion and is clasped by en suite quarter corners. The edges of these elements are roughly and irregularly drawn as if th...

Hand-knotted in wool, a 4x8 vintage rug from a bold Turkish designer, entering Rug & Kilim’s commemorative Mid-Century Pasha Collection. The 1960s take on Art Deco style relishes...

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

A vintage Turkish Anatolian rug handmade during the mid-20th century with a field in several shades of light and dark brown and white dots. The ivory medallion consists of a yellow a...

A vintage Turkish Konya carpet from the mid-20th century.

Hand Knotted in wool, this distressed vintage 4x9 Turkish rug, which is inspired by Saf rugs, a particular kind of prayer rug, features a red field and geometr...

A vintage Turkish flatweave Kilim room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 10' 1" x 13' 2".

Elevate your living space with the exquisite charm of this new modern hand-knotted Moroccan berber beni ourain rug, crafted with precision and care from 100% wool. Combining the allu...

Hand-knotted in wool, this 4×6 vintage runner originates from Turkey, circa 1960-1970, and is believed to be among the works of mid-century designer Zeki Múren. On the Design: Con...

A vintage Turkish Anatolian long runner handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 2' 11" x 15' 5".

Repeating column of hook and latch medallions with interior geometric floral guls atop an abrashed ground. Colors and shades include: Dusty raspberry red, pale rust, tangerine orange...

This vintage 2x6 Art Deco runner 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...

Hand-knotted in wool, a 3x11 runner from Rug & Kilim’s latest curation of rare tribal pieces. Originating from Turkey circa 1950-1960, as bold a representation of mid-century styles ...

A modern Turkish Patchwork rug created with antique and vintage carpet fragments. The white colored field is made up entirely of a vintage Turkish Kili...

A hand-knotted new Turkish "Tulu" rug with chessboard design in amber yellow and blue colors, made completely of very soft natural lambswool. The focus-pulling yet minimalist design...

Antique Turkish Oushak rug, circa 1900. Measures: 12'3 x 15'10. The plain soft field with delicate floral and vine designs creates a harmonious feel. Oushak's are known for their sof...

An antique Turkish Oushak oriental carpet, size 24'6 H x 19'6 W, circa 1900. This lovely hand-knotted wool carpet features a softly hued central medallion anchoring the pale blue pri...

This vintage Zeki Müren 3x4 rug, hand-knotted in wool, circa 1960-1970, features transitional European and Art Deco elements in its design. On the Design: Connoisseurs will appre...

Hand Knotted in wool, this distressed vintage 4x9 Turkish rug, which is inspired by Saf rugs, a particular kind of prayer rug, features a copper brown field an...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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 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".

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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