Rustic Turkish Rugs

A vintage Turkish Anatolian accent rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 3' 6" x 6' 7" 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 Oushak rug in runner format handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 3' 1" x 11' 7" 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 Oushak throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century with a muted and neutral color palette. Measures: 3' 5" x 7' 0".

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...

An antique Turkish Oushak carpet handmade during the early 20th century with an overall neutral and earth tone palette primarily in champagne, old ivory, and brown.

An antique Turkish Anatolian runner from the early 20th century. Anatolian, the rose-red field displays a geometric pattern of Memling guls (flowers), stars, cartouches-in-boxes and ...

"This fine wool flatwoven runner rug is a traditional vintage Kilim runner. Woven by hand in the early 21st century, circa 2010. The central design has been woven on a cream backgrou...

This fine Kazak wool area rug is a fantastic example of antique rugs woven in the early 21st century in the Kazak region of Caucasia. The design features a traditional geometric star...

This antique geometric rug is an excellent example of rugs constructed in Turkey In the 1940s. The design features a traditional geometric patter...

This fine wool rug was handwoven in Turkey with locally sourced materials in the 1970s. The central design features an elegant cream diamond medallion woven on a rich red background ...

Old Handmade carpet Anatolian antique rugs with a red rug background and contrasting central gold medallion. This carpet Oriental rug is Ushak and is in excellent condition. It can b...

A sophisticated vintage mid-20th century Persian Shahsevan Kilim runner woven of un-dyed natural brown wools, giving the rug a variegated color p...

A fantastic early 20th century Persian Qazvin kilim runner with a wonderful geometric pattern of multi-pointed stylized flowers woven in orange, lilac, grey, and black colored wool a...

Old Handmade carpet Anatolian antique rugs with a red rug background and contrasting central gold medallion. This carpet oriental rug is Ushak and is in excellent condition. It can b...

Vintage carpets were created to redevelop artifacts for which restoration would be too costly and anti-commercial. In fact, the idea is to enhance their worn appearance by using dyes...

Turkish handwoven Kilim Rug/Runner Turkey, circa 1920.

This all wool rustic piece has been created from two edge joined assembled wool panels with jogged stripe designs in shades of brown, beige, straw and taupe. The composite sections w...

The light blue overdye is both distressed and abrashed. A few darker ivory details appear.