Mid-20th Century More Carpets

20856 Vintage Beni MGuild Moroccan Rug, 05'10 x 08'09. This hand-knotted wool vintage Beni M'Guild Moroccan rug features an all-over diamond lattice pattern spread across the abrash...

80434 Distressed Vintage Skull Steampunk Style Area Rug Inspired by Alexander McQueen. Unconventional elements, like this hand-knotted wool distressed vi...

This vintage Turkish Oushak carpet runner features a traditional modern style in neutral colors. A delicate center medallion floats along the abrash field surrounded by a low-contras...

76524 rustic style vintage Persian Azerbaijan tribal runner, wide hallway runner. Whimsical and tribal, this hand knotted wool vintage Persian Azerbaijan runner features a curious al...

A vintage Persian Pictorial accent rug in square format handmade by the Bakhtiari nomadic tribe during the mid-20th century with a pictorial design of an androgynous figure...

51701 Vintage Turkish Oushak Rug 04'06 x 06'08. Striking in its simplicity, yet elaborate in the motif, this vintage Turkish Oushak rug features a double medallion design. A pair of ...

50992 Vintage Pastel Turkish Tulu Rug, 03'05 x 05'03. A study in softness and restraint, this hand-knotted wool vintage Turkish Tulu rug embodies a rarefied form of quiet luxury—an h...

Turkish vintage Kilim with Embroidered rug with Tan, taupe, brown, and Lt. Blue. Keivan Woven Arts / rug EN-179481, country of origin / type: Turkey / Kilim, circa 1950 This vintage...

A vintage Persian Karajeh accent rug handmade during the Mid-20th Century. Measures: 4' 10" x 6' 6".

A vintage Turkish tribal flatweave Kilim accent rug handmade during the mid-20th century in shades of brown and cream. Measures: 6' 0" x 8' 3".

A vintage Persian Mahal accent rug handmade during the mid-20th century with an Art Deco design inspired by Edward McKnight Kauffer.

60184 Vintage Persian Hamadan Runner with Jacobean Style, Hallway Runner. Hand-knotted wool vintage Persian Hamadan carpet runner featuring an all-over geometric design on a saturate...

A vintage Chinese Art Deco room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century in shades of green and cream. Measures: 9' 0" x 11' 10".

51095 Vintage Turkish Kilim Rug with Feminine Industrial Style, Flat-weave Kilim Rug 06'05 X 09'04. With a bold geometric pattern and striking appeal, this hand-woven wool vintage Tu...

A vintage Persian flatweave Kilim square accent rug handmade during the mid-20th century with a zebra print pattern. Measures: 5' 7" x 5' 2".

A vintage Persian Mahal accent rug in runner format handmade during the mid-20th century with a pictorial design. Measures: 3' 6" x 7' 6".

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 Persian Veece small room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 7' 7" x 11' 0".

A vintage Persian Kashan small room size carpet, in the Art Deco style, handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 7' 5" x 11' 4".

A vintage Persian Malayer throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 3' 6" x 5' 1" Persian rugs carpets: Persia (Iran) is a moderately large country with ...

A vintage Turkish Anatolian room size rug handmade during the mid-20th century with a diamond lattice pattern over a brown colored field, and a cream colored border with a dark mauve...

79042 Anna Johanna Angstrom Vintage Swedish Rollakan Rug, 05'04 x 07'08. In the rarified world of heritage textiles, few creations embody poetic elegance and narrative depth like Ani...

79451 Rare Vintage Persian Tabriz Square Rug, 06'07 x 06'09. This exceptional hand knotted wool and silk vintage Persian Mahi Tabriz rug represents the intellectual and artistic pinn...

Minimalist stripe design Kilim from Turkey, Keivan Woven Arts/rug EN-1768322, country of origin/type: Turkey / Kilim, circa 1950 This vintage flat-woven Kilim runner features a mi...

A vintage Persian Mahal folk throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 3' 0" x 5' 1".

A vintage Persian flat-weave Kilim room size accent rug in square format handmade during the mid-20th century in blue and purple shades, primarily in periwinkle. Measures: 7' 0" x...

A vintage Turkish Anatolian Art Deco style rug in runner format handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 1' 11" x 8' 1" 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...

A vintage Turkish flatweave Kilim runner handmade during the Mid-20th Century. Measures: 2' 9" x 13' 5".

A stunning Modernist carpet with an all-over pattern composed of irregular waves in various shades of red, light grey and black on an ivory background. The 1950s were a very creative...

A vintage Chinese Peking throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century with a cream border and light blue field. Measures: 2' 6" x 4' 3" The craft of the hand-knotted carpet in China, and the surrounding areas including Mongolia and Tibet, extends into the early centuries of the first millennium, C.E., but we really have a firm grasp only beginning in the later 16th century with large, very coarsely woven carpets, often depicting dragons, created for the Imperial Forbidden City palaces. Chinese carpets have always been commercial and there are no tribal groups responsible for any of the carpet weaving strains. When the Ming Dynasty fell in 1644, with no Imperial patrons, production moved to the city of Ningxia in north central China where several workshops turned out more finely woven pieces for the Mandarins of the administrative Ch’ing bureaucracy and well-to-do merchants. Ningxia was the major Chinese carpet center up through most of the 19th century, with first allover and then medallion designs on cotton foundations in medium weaves. Palettes were initially limited to yellows, dark blue and cream, but later widened to include reds, browns and even green. These antiques were the first Chinese carpets to be exported to the West and they fitted in well with the craze for Chinese blue-and-white porcelain in the second half of the 19th century. Ningxia also wove shaped and rectangular small rugs for saddle underlays, chair (“throne”) seats and shaped backs, pillar carpets with dragons or monks for Buddhist monasteries, and long divided runners for monastery meditation halls. These small rugs are among the most collectible of all Chinese weavings. Weavers from Ningxia set up workshops in the capital Peking (Beijing) in the 1860’s and began weaving Western room sizes for export, primarily to America. In blue – and – white and polychrome palettes, with round wreath medallions, precious objects, seasonal flowers, paeonies, lotuses, fretwork, clouds, butterflies and bats, all relatively spaciously drawn. The round “Shou” (Good Luck) character is also a prominent decorative motif. There are also a few Peking landscape pictorials with pagodas, houses, bridges, waterscapes and boats. Peking carpets were woven right up until WWII and production began again after the Cultural Revolution around 1970. They are moderately well-woven, on cotton foundations, exactingly executed and indisputably Chinese. Many are in the blue-and-white style. Nothing else looks like a Peking carpet and for a Chinese “look” in a room, they are absolutely indispensable. Sizes range from scatters and a few runners, through the popular 9’12’ size, to large carpets over 20’ which must have been special orders. The earliest Peking Revival carpets are pliable and fairly thin, but they became heavier and more compact in the 20th century, in competition with Art Deco carpets from Tientsin. The modern, post- 1970, pieces are in the traditional Peking style, but are a little too regular and neat. Exactitude has been favored over character, as hard to explain that as it is. There are a number of all-silk and silk-and –metal thread pieces, many with inscriptions purporting to link them with rooms in the Imperial palaces, bringing very substantial auction prices, but none are really antique. The genre emerged after WWI and the present demand comes from mainland Chinese. The silk piles often stand in pattern relief against flat woven gold metal thread grounds. The inscriptions are apocryphal, the rugs are flashily opulent, perfect for nouveaux riches. The Art Deco period between the two World Wars saw a distinctive carpet industry developing in Tientsin (Tianjin) in northeastern China. These are highly prized for their transitional design character, neither overtly Chinese, nor abstractly modern/contemporary. Woven exclusively for export, usually by and for American firms, such as Nichols and Elbrook, they are totally in the “Jazz Age Modern” style of the 1920’s, often without borders, with abstract or abstracted patterns, and only with, at best, a few Chinese-y pattern elements. Vases asymmetrically placed in the corners are features of some of the more Chinese-y carpets. Open fields with floral sprays and branches growing in from the edges are anther design innovation. Often, Chinese motives have been re-imagined in more sharp-edged, abstract manners. Some have no references whatsoever to natural elements. The patterns are sharp and the rugs are never subdued, soft or restrained. The rugs are heavily constructed, with crisp, unfading dyes and medium to medium coarse weaves on cotton foundations. All are extremely well-executed, with none of the vagaries, variations or twists found on even high-quality Persian rugs. The majority are in the 9’ by 12’ format and a surprising number can be found in top condition. There also was a substantial production in Peking from, especially from the Fette factory. Elliptical and round carpets, and lighter, often pastel colors, were a specialty. Nothing looks like an Art Deco Chinese and they work well with traditional Chinese furniture and the most modern decor as well. These is no substitute for a good Chinese Art Deco carpet. Chinese carpets also include small scatters from Tibet, with high quality wool, floating dragons and allover textile patterns. The colors of vintage and modern pieces are bright, but there are antique small rugs...

A vintage Chinese Art Deco accent rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 4' 3" x 6' 11".

50797 Vintage Turkish Yastik Rug, 01'06 X 02'11. Vintage Turkish Yastik rugs are the creme de la creme of small Anatolian rugs. Originally used as pillow covers, these beauties have...

A vintage Persian Yazd large size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 10' 10" x 15' 3".

A vintage Turkish Anatolian gallery carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 5' 3" x 11' 4".

A vintage Turkish Art Deco style small room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 7' 8" x 9' 6".

This beautiful red wool carpet features a symmetrical ornate design. The intricate design has been woven in accents of blue, crean and yellow on a bold red background. The corners ar...

A vintage Turkish Anatolian rug in runner format handmade during the mid-20th century with a contemporary geometric lattice pattern in shades of coral and terracotta over a light gre...

This flat-weave tribal kilim has been hand-woven in wool. The rug features a horizontal stripe design, accentuated by various sub-geometric motifs. The rug has been rendered in multi...

A vintage Turkish Anatolian small room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 7' 9" x 10' 0".

This vintage hand-knotted Patchwork design rug is made of the finest hand-carded, hand-spun wool, and crafted by village artisan weavers in Turkey. Custom sizes and colors available....

This is a truly genuine one-of-a-kind Vintage Zoroastrian Karman, Hand Knotted, Pure Wool, Oriental Rug. It has been Knotted for months and months in the centuries-old weaving crafts...

A vintage Persian Malayer rug in runner format handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 3' 5" x 13' 1".

A vintage Persian Veece small room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 7' 2" x 10' 4".

This modern style flatwoven Kilim is a handwoven piece constructed in Sweden. The design is woven with a bold solid geometric pattern with a simple mustard yellow and cream palette. ...

A vintage Persian Tabriz large room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century with in shades of light brown and blue-grey. Measures: 11'3" x 15'10".

A vintage Persian Mashad Art Deco square accent rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 4' 11" x 5' 9".

A vintage Persian Mahal runner in a modern Art Deco style handmade during the mid-20th century with a check board pattern in a multicolored palette. Measures: 1' 7" x 6' 1".

A vintage Persian Tabriz large room size carpet with a double pendant medallion handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 12' 11" x 15' 9".

A vintage Turkish Anatolian rug from the mid-20th century. Measures: 2' 9" x 6' 2"

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

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

A vintage Persian flat-weave Kilim zebra print small room size accent rug handmade during the mid-20th century in the rustic style that works well with modern farmhouse interiors...

A vintage Persian Mashad room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 11' 6" x 15' 3".

A vintage Persian Malayer throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 3' 8" x 5' 4".

A vintage Persian Serab rug in runner format handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 2' 11" x 14' 10" Persian Rugs Carpets: Persia (Iran) is a moderately large country with a very long history and an enormous art...

A vintage Persian Malayer runner handmade during the mid-20th century.

A vintage Turkish Oushak runner handmade during the mid-20th century with a tribal pattern in a bright and colorful palette. Measures: 2' 8" x 8' 7".

61514 Vintage Persian Heriz Rug, 02'09 x 04'05. Hand-knotted with the storied authority of the Heriz weaving tradition, this vintage Persian rug exudes a cultivated grandeur that fee...

A vintage Turkish Anatolian room size rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Very much in the style of mid-century modern with its elongated whimsical oval pattern belonging to the period of the atomic art...

A vintage Persian Tabriz large room size rug handmade during the mid-20th century with large palmettes connected by vines over a beige field and a border with shades of mauve. Mea...