Caucasian Rugs and Carpets

A beautiful and bold mid-20th century Anatolian Turkish Kilimanjaros rug with alternating multicolored stylized floral and geometric patterned embroidered stripes.

Rugs of this type were commissioned by the Armenian-British Benlian company, which had a workshop active in Tabriz during the first half of the 20th Century specialising in weaving c...

53131, vintage Turkish striped kilim rug with modern cabin style. With its warm hues and rugged beauty, this handwoven wool striped kilim rug...

An exemplary antique Turkish Oushak carpet, circa 1900, size 18'2 x 15'6. This large Oushak features a particularly soft color palette, with its ivory field characterized by a combin...

50112, vintage Turkish Oushak rug with Venetian Renaissance style. Warm and inviting, this hand knotted vintage Turkish Oushak rug features a step...

51975 Distressed Vintage Turkish Sivas Rug, 02’11 x 06’03. This hand knotted wool distressed vintage Turkish Sivas rug features a tessellated honeycomb lattice pattern. Reminiscent o...

52932 New Modern Turkish Oushak Rug, 05'10 x 07'10. In the warm embrace of Mediterranean sunlight and earthy tones, this hand-knotted wool Turkish Oushak rug captures the essence of ...

Antique Caucasian Talish runner with a dark navy background and field enclosed by a rich, intricate border. Runner size is 3'0"x11'3".

This handmade carpet colorful rug is a Turkish carpet rug has woven by very skilled weavers in Turkey, who used the highest quality wool and cotton. The flat-weave rug has light red,...

Measures: 4'6 x 12'0 Antique Caucasian Shirvan Gallery Rug with Geometric Diamond Design 4'6 x 12'0. Keivan Woven Arts/ rug/X23-1203-180, country of origin / type: Caucasus / Kaza...

This fine Turkish silk rug was woven with the finest organic materials. The central design has been woven on a cream background with beige and green accents that make up the symmetri...

52839 Distressed Antique Turkish Overdyed Rug with Heriz Design and Industrial Style. With a lovingly timeworn appearance and blissful b...

This is a Dagestan runner woven in the northern Caucasus during the end of the 19th century. The field is decorated with shrubs interlock in a lattice design and the border makes use...

An exquisite antique Turkish Oushak area rug from the late 1800s, showcasing the artistry of Anatolian weaving traditions. The open field is rendered in a rare abrash pale yellow-gre...

Antique Caucasian Kazak Oriental Carpet, Runner size, circa 1890. A one-of-a-kind antique Caucasian Kazak Oriental Carpet, hand-knotted with soft wool pile. This lovely hand-knott...

This beautiful Mid-Century rug rests on a saturated yellow background with brilliant accent colors. The design consists of intertwined threads running along the length of the piece, ...

77116, vintage Turkish Oushak rug with Elizabethan style and French Influence. This hand knotted wool vintage Turkish Oushak rug features a central roundel surrounded by an all-over garden lattice...

Oversize Antique Turkish Oushak rug, 17'10 x 22'10. Oversize antique Turkish Oushak rug, circa 1900. What could be more luxurious than a gigantic silver carpet? Oushak carpets were w...

60600 Vintage Turkish Purple Overdyed Rug, 06'07 x 09'10. Brace yourself for a beguiling dance of Bohemian Rhapsody entwined with Maximalist flair in the form of this hand-knotted w...

Our over-dyed rugs are all hand-knotted vintage pieces that are recreated in our workshop to cater to a wider range of interior design choices from modern to coastal, from industrial...

A vintage Turkish Anatolian Art Deco style room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 9' 2" x 11' 3".

60760 New Colorful Turkish Oushak Rug with Modern Contemporary Style 05'09 x 08'05. Highly stylish yet tastefully casual, this new colorful Turkish Oushak rug with modern contemporar...

This vintage 2x5 rug is a new addition to Rug & Kilim’s midcentury Pasha Collection. This line is a commemoration, with rare curations we believe to hail from multidisciplinary Turki...

We made a cushion cover using the undamaged part of the precious and high-quality old & antique kilims that cannot be repaired as a whole. Like a painting, a part of the scenery is c...

Oushak rugs, also known as Ushak rugs, are woven in Western Turkey and have distinct designs, such as angular large-scale floral patterns. They usually evoke a calmness and peacefuln...

8'7 X 15'. Even today, Oushak rugs are still the first choice of professional interior designers. Sometimes this is because when grading Oushak carpets, carpet connoisseurs will not ...

71807 Antique Caucasian Tribal Rug, 04’09 x 09’08. A rare artifact of nomadic artistry, this hand-knotted wool antique Caucasian tribal r...

This fine wine red wool rug is a handwoven masterpiece. Woven with fine organic materials the central design features a bold all-over design with a red background and accents of pink...

71909, Vintage Turkish Sivas Rug with Heriz-Serapi Design and French Provincial Style. This hand knotted wool vintage Turkish Sivas rug features a large octofoil medallion with flami...

Made with hand-knotted wool and originating from Turkey circa 1960 – 1970, this 7x11 vintage Oushak rug is a unique addition to the Rug & Kilim Collection—an exemplary find among you...

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...

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 ...

This vintage 2x7 Art Deco runner 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...

This Soumak vintage rug was produced by nomads in the late 20th century, circa 1980. The design features a rustic decorative stripe design, woven in a deep red with accent colours 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...

:: Allover covered field in geometric repeating shield medallion design motif arranged in three columns atop a covered field of floral top views and serpent inner and outer minor bor...

A vintage Turkish Anatolian small room size carpet handmade during the Mid-20th Century. Measures: 8' 4" x 10' 11".

Turkish Oushak Rug Oriental Handmade 2'9" x 9'8" #12073 Explore a curated collection of hallway runners, wool rugs, and handmade masterpieces at , where elegance meets functionality....

A handmade carpet with a repeat pattern of geometric designs flows through the centre of this Oriental rug, with colors of green blue and brown softly contrasting against the deep or...

This vintage 3x5 Gabbeh Persian rug is from the latest entries in Rug & Kilim’s rare tribal curations. Hand-knotted in wool circa 1950-1960. On the Design: This tribal provenan...

Dramatic modern design Turkish oushak carpet or rug featuring abrash colorful jewel toned hues. The rug has a distinctive pink field with a teal border decorated with stylized floral...

A vintage Turkish flatweave Kilim square room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 10' 5" x 10' 7"

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...

This antique Turkish runner has a field with three vertical columns of ivory, sandy-yellow and raspberry-red each containing an angular flowerhead vine between three minor stripes co...

Size: 11ft 6in x 8ft 7in (350 x 262cm). Antique Heriz carpet with a very well-drawn large medallion and excellent colours. Circa 1900. The carpet has a large central medallion of...

Made with hand-knotted wool and originating in the early 20th century, this 15x22 antique Persian rug is a rare and exciting new curation from our Antique collection. On the Design: Keen eyes will appreciate the play of medallion and open field, where the rich red underscores the large-scale geometric medallion enclosed in a thick, finely-detailed border. The natural sense of depth of the medallion pattern brings out both the natural, regal character of the design in kindred hues of rich red, blue, and pink, as well as the meticulous accenting hues of a grayish blue against the prevailing colorway. The construction hosts a lustrous wool that brings out the texture and finesse of this rare regal piece. Admirers of the craft will note the design influence of Turkish Isparta rugs...

This is an antique Unique Sarkoy (Sharkoy or Sarköy) Kilim rug from Western Turkey with a rare and beautiful color composition. Sarkoy kilims are very finely woven in slitweave in...

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...

Hand-knotted wool and originating from Turkey circa 1950-1960, this 8x11 vintage Ersari rug is from the same provenance, a sub-tribe of the Turkmen people often known for their more ...

A modern Turkish Anatolian room size carpet handmade during the 21st century. This contemporary borderless Turkish rug features 7 leafy vines over an aubergine (eggplant) purple colo...

This semi-antique Oushak kilim is a radiant expression of Anatolian soul — woven by hand in the 1940s with warmth, balance, and story. Its design centers on the bold Oushak medallion...

Hand-knotted in wool circa 1960-1970, this 7x9 vintage rug is an exciting new piece in Rug & Kilim’s Mid-Century Pasha Collection—a rare curation believed to hail from mid-century Tu...

A vintage Turkish flat-weave Kilim accent carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 6' 10" x 9' 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...

This antique Anatolian flat-woven rug originates from the villages located around Karapinar, situated in the central Anatolian plain not far from Çatal Hüyük, one of the cradles of c...

A lovely antique Sarab rug, distinguished by an unusual emerald green background, finely embellished by parallel and offset rows of small geometric devices, creating a soft matrix, f...

:: Allover covered field in geometric repeating shield medallion design motif arranged in three columns atop a covered field of floral top views and serpent inner and outer minor bor...

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...

This vintage 4x7 Art Deco 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 hai...

Antique Oushak rug Measurement: 11' x 13'6".

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".