Antique Spanish Carpet with Pattern of Renaissance Palmettes

The darker red field shows an allover pattern of closely set small octogrammes, leaves and wriggling cloudbands, in an Indian Esque pattern. Main dark brown border with square flore...

This long pile, coarsely woven long carpet shows a beige seafoam field with an open diamond lattice allover pattern, within a brown border with trompe l'oeil strapwork forming cartouches enclosing bouquets. A massive carpet...

The old ivory-yellow field supports an all-over pattern of half-drop rows of golden, skeletal flowering plants including tulips and poppies. The orange-rust border features an undula...

The slate field shows an allover pattern of upright and lazy palmettes, with secondary leaves, in a vinery lattice structure. The pattern moves slightly toward one end. The narrow so...

An early, second quarter 20th century Spanish Cuenca rug, hand knotted with neoclassical and Turkish influence(Hispano-Moresque) during the Art Deco...

This exquisite early-twentieth-century carpet was produced in Alcaraz, Spain. This carpet is an excellent example of the formal mandate to develop a distinctively Spanish style of artwork. It is an allover design that is in cream and green. The pink border sets the carpet off. Alcaraz is a region in Southern Castile and is thought to be one of the first centres to produce these new designs. The colours of the antique Spanish rugs became muted due to experimentation with new dyestuffs. Also, the skill of the Moorish master carpet dyers was lost. Many of these antique Alcaraz carpets...

Beautiful Spanish hand knotted rug with a decorative design and a yellow field color with blue, green and pink, entirely hand knotted with wool velvet on cotton foundation.

The court workshop called 'Real Fabrica de Tapices' has been active in Madrid since the 17th century, supplying handmade carpets woven with Turkish (symmetrical) knots to both the court as well as for export. Throughout the 20th century their carpets were either woven with French Savonnerie patterns or, as in this case, with designs taken from the Spanish Renaissance weaving tradition. These carpets are known in the trade with the term of 'Cuenca,' which is the city in southern Spain where they were originally woven in the 15th-17th centuries. Here the pattern, which has a raised pile with respect to the ivory background, is distinguished by an infinite repeat of curvilinear palmettes as seen on 15th-16th century Spanish Alcaraz carpets.