Caucasian Rugs and Carpets

Hand-knotted in wool and originating from Turkey circa 1960 – 1970, this 5x9 vintage Zeki Müren rug is a unique addition to the Rug & Kilim Collection for its floral patterns across ...

A charming indigo ground antique Shirvan rug, decorated by a central totemic-like element composed of an alternation of white and light blue hooked motif, flanked by a dense array of...

Old Sharkoy kilim, Western Turkey or the Balkans. A good example of an old Sharkoy kilim with a very well drawn traditional all over large scale repeat design in a soft overall colo...

Antique Turkish Oushak rug, size: 15'4" x 18'8".

A small souf persian gabbeh mat from the late 20th century.Souf rugs are very rare technique found as they have a raised low and high pile technique. They are popular in Iran and lit...

This is a South Anatolian Vintage / Semi-old Handwoven Kilim from the town of Mut in Mersin Province, located in the Mediterranean region of Anatolia, Turkey. These kilims are renown...

Antique Turkoman Yomut Main carpet. Ca 19th Century. Finely hand-knotted with even medium wool pile on wool foundation. Very good condition. Sturdy and as clean as a brand new rug (...

This is a South Anatolian Vintage / Semi-old Handwoven Runner Kilim from the town of Mut in Mersin Province, located in the Mediterranean region of Anatolia, Turkey. These kilims are...

Antique Turkish Rug 4'5'' x 4'6''. The carpets, scatters, runners, long rugs and bags of the towns, villages and tribes of Anatolia, including: Oushak, Ghiordes, Kula, Ladik, Hereke,...

:: Oversized center medallion with floral top views and minor delicate vines interconnecting. Adorned at either opposing end by floral cross-section finials atop an abrashed field wi...

This is a South Anatolian Vintage / Semi-old Handwoven Runner Kilim from the town of Mut in Mersin Province, located in the Mediterranean region of Anatolia, Turkey. These kilims are...

Oushak Rug Oriental Hand Knotted Turkish Oushak 10'1" x 8'4" #2879 Explore a curated collection of hallway runners, wool rugs, and handmade masterpieces, where elegance meets functio...

This compelling Antique Kazak Rug is a robust and visually powerful tribal textile from the South Caucasus, dating to circa 1880. Measuring 117 x 219 cm (approx. 3'10" x 7'2"), its v...

This midcentury vintage Pelas flat-weave rug is handwoven in Turkey with hand-carded, hand-spun Persian wool, and all natural dyes. Custom sizes and colors available. Rug size 7'4" ...

A fine quality late 19th century Caucasian Shirvan rug. Measures: 3'9" x 4'3".

Measures: 4'9 x 6'10 Vintage Turkish Kilim Rug In Pastel Stripes Of Blue and Green 4'9 x 6'10 Keivan Woven Arts / Rug / EN-15877 Country of origin / type: Turkey / Kilim Turkish k...

This is an Eastern Anatolian vintage old Cecim ( Cicim or Jijim) Kilim from the Gaziantep region with a rare and beautiful color composition. This town lies in south-eastern Turkey,...

This is a beautifully detailed old Malatya Region, Anatolian Chuval kilim, featuring a bold, three-dimensional texture and precise geometric patterns. Originally used by nomadic trib...

A modern Turkish oversize flat-weave Kilim carpet in square rug format handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 15' 0" x 18' 0".

The composition of this very rare antique minimalist flat-weave takes place on three panels, woven separately on narrow tribal looms and then stitched together in order to create the...

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...

Measures: 3'6'' x 5'8''. This lovely vintage Oushak is set on a purple background and features a floral medallion with accents of deep gold. The taupe border has a unique flower patt...

This 7x10 vintage rug is believed to be a rare mid-century Ersari rug, hand-knotted in wool and originating in Turkey circa 1950-1960. On the Design The Ersari are a sub-tribe of t...

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...

Hand-knotted wool and originating from Turkey circa 1950-1960, this 8x13 vintage Ersari rug is from the same provenance, a sub-tribe of the Turkmen people often known for their more ...

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

Pillowcase Made from a 1960s Hemp rug It does not come with an insert. Linen in the back. Zipper closure. Dry Cleaning is reccommended. Ivory stitching is in silk and hand d...

Made with hand-knotted high-pile wool in Turkey, this 4x5 vintage Tulu rug is a distinguished addition to Rug & Kilim’s collection of traditional Turkish textiles.Its muted brown and...

This vintage runner rug is a 3x6 Turkish distressed piece, made with hand-knotted wool circa mid-20th century. It is an exciting new addition to our collection of distressed Turkish ...

This vintage runner rug is a 2x7 Turkish distressed piece, made with hand-knotted wool circa mid-20th century. It is an exciting new addition to our collection of distressed Turkish ...

This vintage runner rug is a 3x8 Turkish distressed piece, made with hand-knotted wool circa mid-20th century. It is an exciting new addition to our collection of distressed Turkish ...

Turkish Konya Rug with Geometric Design rug/tu-sim-1 origin/turkey This beautiful antique Konya carpet features a Classic medallion design. The faint red ground is home to the cen...

Antique Look Turkish Oushak Rug 8'7" x 12'5" # 224 Explore a curated collection of hallway runners, wool rugs, and handmade masterpieces at , where elegance meets functionality. Elev...

Turkish Oushak Rug 9'10" x 14'1" #15093 Explore a curated collection of hallway runners, wool rugs, and handmade masterpieces at , where elegance meets functionality. Elevate your sp...

nr. 404 - Simple typical Turkish kilim, solid and inexpensive, with beautiful colors. Until a few decades ago it was woven by girls, but now they tell me that there is no longer that cheap labor, because they go to school...

Hand-knotted in wool and originating from Turkey circa 1960 – 1970, this 5x6 vintage rug is a unique addition to the Mid-Century Pasha Collection by Rug & Kilim—a curation of unique ...

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...

Measures: 4'2 x 6'1. Vintage Turkish Oushak Rug with Faded Terracotta Medallion and Golden Sand. Keivan Woven Arts / rug/ NA-55412 / origin/turkey / Early 20th Century. Vintage Tu...

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

Hand-knotted in wool and originating from Turkey circa 1960 – 1970, this 2x5 vintage Zeki Müren runner is a unique addition to the Rug & Kilim Collection for its wide range of colors...

19th Century Caucasian Kazak Carpet ( 4'6" x 5'8" - 137 x 173 ) This exceptional example of nomadic weaving artistry offers a powerful visual narrative, characteristic of the finest...

Late 19th Century Caucasian Bidjov Carpet ( 4'6'' x 5'8'' - 122 x 183 cm) This exceptional Bidjov scatter piece, woven in the Caucasus region during the late 19th century, immediate...

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...

Oushak Rug Oriental Hand Knotted Turkish Oushak 3'1" x 13’1” #167 Explore a curated collection of hallway runners, wool rugs, and handmade masterpieces, where elegance meets func...

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...

This vintage 6x12 Persian kilim is a tribal rug of Shahsavan provenance. Handwoven in wool, it originates circa 1950-1960. Further on the Design: This tribal Kilim favors strip...

This Vintage Turkish Oushak rug (14'4" × 17'9") is a magnificent handwoven masterpiece crafted from natural wool and organic dyes. True to the Oushak weaving tradition of Western Tur...

Hand-knotted in wool and originating from Turkey circa 1960 – 1970, this 4x6 vintage Zeki Müren rug is a unique addition to the Rug & Kilim Collection for its floral patterns across ...

A modern Turkish Tulu large room size rug with a low shaggy pile handmade during the 21st century. The geometric "Mayan Pyramid" design of stepped...

How rare is an old gold field? A geometric version of the all-over Harshang (crab) pattern is symmetrically laid out with accents in goldenrod, ecru and salmon, all on the abrashed g...

The muted gazpacho red field, with all over graphic medallion and flower head decoration, within blue and golden ochre border. The overall pile and surface quality in sparingly and a...

This special collector's item is a rare and valuable textile from the Ottoman period, dating from the 17th century. This work, expertly woven from cotton and silk, is adorned with sy...

Hand-knotted in wool, circa 1960 – 1970, this 7x10 vintage Müren Art Deco rug is Mid-century curation from Rug & Kilim. It features a postmodern take on design, but with a Japanese s...

This 7x9 vintage rug is believed to be a rare mid-century Ersari rug, hand-knotted in wool and originating in Turkey circa 1950-1960. On the Design:...

Handknotted in wool, this 6x10 vintage rug originates from Turkey, circa 1960-1970, and is believed to be among the works of mid-century designer Zeki Múren. On the Design: Connoi...

This Pillow Case id made from a vintage cotton and wool coverlet made during mid 20th c. in Western Anatolia, Turkey. The silk stitching on it is hand done by us. It does not come...

A stunning antique Kilim distinguished by parallel and offset rows of concentric, polychrome diamonds laid over a light blue background. Kilims of this type, exhibiting a full range ...

Hand-knotted in wool and originating from Turkey circa 1960 – 1970, this 6x6 vintage Zeki Müren square rug is a unique addition to the Rug & Kilim Collection for its wide range of co...

Turkish Oushak Rug Ivory Blue Beige Handwoven Wool Rug 4'8" x 6'10" This Turkish Oushak rug is handwoven from premium handwoven wool, crafted using traditional Anatolian weaving tec...

A vintage 3x6 mid-century runner from the Mid-Century Pasha Collection by Rug & Kilim — celebrating the rare curations believed to hail from multi-disciplinary Turkish icon, Zeki Mür...