Manhattan - Rugs and Carpets

Antique Large Scale Sultanabad Carpet, Origin: Persia, Circa 1900. Size: 10 ft x 17 ft 5 in (3.05 m x 5.31 m) Sultanabad carpets are some of the most desirable carpets in the world....

Chinese - Art Deco. Measures: 12'0" x 16'10".

Lavar makes some of the best SE Persian Kerman carpets and here is a particularly large piece with an ecru ground displaying octogoil, round and doubly pendanted quatrefoils, all in ...

8'10 x 11'6. During much of the history of the Mongol Empire, Agra was its capital city. Architects and artisans, including many carpet weavers, were brought here from all-over the M...

Antique Chinese Peking rug. Size: 8'0" x 9'10".

1930s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 10' x 16' - 305 x 490 cm )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9' x 11'8" - 275 x 355 )

Early 20th Century Indian Cotton Dhurrie Carpet. Our collection of antique and vintage Dhurries, including desirable square formats, is extensive, and this colorful example is a study in carefully abrashed light blue, with ashiks centered in red and edged in cerulean blue. Red and blue squared wave fret border on this almost antique...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9' x 11'8" - 275 x 355 )

The ecru beige field of this tapestry woven pileless runner shows a pattern akin to that of Turkmen tent bands, also on light grounds. There is a tripartite layout with central poles...

A soft, muted color scheme characterizes this Antique Persian Tabriz Rug, with a floral medallion that brings understated elegance to any room. Its gentle tones and classic design ma...

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Rug ( 3'2" x 6' - 97 x 183 )

This elegant Persian circular rug is crafted from fine Kork wool and silk, showcasing a balanced floral medallion design and exceptional weaving clarity. A refined statement piece id...

19th Century N.W. Persian Serapi Carpet ( 16'8" x 24'10" - 508 x 757 )

A rare collectible Moroccan antique vintage shag rug from the Boujad tribe in the central plains of Morocco. This is a rare type of Moroccan rug and an example of very vibrant colors...

Antique Perisan Tabriz Oriental Carpet, circa 1920, Room Sized An antique Persian Tabriz oriental carpet, circa 1920. Size: 10'0" x 6'6". This large sized antique decorative rug...

An antique Persian Tabriz accent rug handmade during the early 20th century with the classic pictorial hunting scene design. Measures: 4' 5" x 5' 3" Persian Rugs Carpets:...

Antique American Hooked rug. Size: 2'5" x 3'5".

Antique Persian Tabriz Oriental Carpet, circa 1910, Room Sized An antique Persian Tabriz oriental carpet, circa 1910. Size: 12'0" x 9'2". This large sized antique decorative rug wa...

Antique Persian Bakshaish Rug, Country of Origin / rug type: Persian rug, Circa date: 1880. Size: 12 ft 8 in x 14 ft 8 in (3.86 m x 4.47 m)

Antique Chinese Art Deco Rug, Size: 4'2"x6'10"

This antique vintage Moroccan rug came from the Beni Mguild tribe from the central middle Atlas mountains from the region of the Guigou valley. This rug features beautiful dye, exhib...

A newer abstract design by Joseph Carini, Divali is a 100 knot carpet, hand knotted with silk and wool. This luxurious area rug has a subtle texture- the wool background is slightly lower than the silk design. The blue and green colors are vibrant and hold tremendous depth, it really must be seen in person to fully appreciate. Inspired by organic shapes and tribal patterns, this is a modern contemporary design for many interior design styles and can be customized to your liking. Handwoven in our exclusive workshop in Nepal, this rug exudes luxury and elegance. Hand knotted with the finest hand processed Himalayan wool and Chinese silk, this fine handmade carpet is silky soft to the touch and has a beautiful sheen. Shown here in a 10x14 area rug...

A Mid-20th-century Turkish deco square Anatolian rug depicting a lion and pigeon and what looks to be the name of a turkish weaver? Details rug no. r4806 size 2'10" x 3'

This antique vintage Moroccan rug came from the Beni Mguild tribe from the central middle Atlas mountains. One of the earliest rugs in our collection, this piece was made in the 1920...

A weathered and distressed antique Malayer carpet from the first quarter of the 20th century. Malayer is one of over 100 weaving villages outside of Hamadan in Northwestern Iran. Mal...

Two flower bouquets or bushesfloat in the burnt orange field and two larger aggregations from opposite corners. The yellow and goldenrod flowers are shaded in rust red and there are ...

At the heart of this collection is a desire to bridge the past and the present—to honor the artistry of yesterday’s weavers while speaking to the needs of today’s homes. In weaving t...

The Mid-Century Modern Collection is skillfully sourced by N A S I R I and exclusive to our showroom. These flatweaves embody the minimalist sophistication that emerged in the mid-20...

Antique Persian Hamadan Oriental rug, Small size An antique Persian Hamadan oriental rug in small size, size 5'10”x 3'7”, circa 1920. This lovely hand-knotted carpet features a cent...

1920s Antique Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8'9" X 11'6" - 266 x 350 ) Floral pattern with Navy background.

An antique Turkish Oushak oriental carpet, size 13'2 x 10'3, circa 1910. This lovely decorative carpet features a diffuse central medallion on a subtly hued central field, which is e...

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...

late 19th Century Shirvan Rug Details rug no. j3502 size 3' 4" x 5' 4" (102 x 163 cm)

Tree and Cloud is a mainstay Carini Carpets signature design by Joseph Carini. This is the indigo rendition, featuring a deep and rich indigo blue ground with corral and pink branche...

A vintage American rag rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 3' 6" x 5' 8" North American rugs carpets: North American has never developed a unified handmade rug tradition, but rather it is the unassimilated confluence of several. From Mexico comes the Saltillo serape wearing blanket, and this stimulates the Navajo and Rio Grande (Colorado) weavers, first as blankets, then as rugs. The thrifty habits of rural America gave rise to the New England (and Western Canadian) hooked rug types, while the farmers of the Midwest recycled their disused garments into braided and rag rugs. The closest to a real ongoing tradition are the Southwestern (New Mexican) Navajo rugs. By the 1860s the native tribes were weaving wearing blankets with wool from the Spanish churro sheep. These were in stripe design, with combinations of undyed wool with cochineal reds and indigo blues. The multi-phase “Chief’s Blankets” from the 1870s-80s are a natural outgrowth of these. Machine spun red wool from Germantown in Pennsylvania appeared in the 1870s with a bright red hitherto unobtainable. The weavers loved it and blankets appeared with bright reds, generally aniline, in “eye dazzler” patterns. Anglo traders established posts beginning in the 1890s. Navajo weavings were perfect accompaniments not only for Western-themed decors, but for East Coast apartments, only they needed to be thicker and more rug like to be truly accepted. The traders brought Caucasian and Turkish village rugs to copy, borders were introduced and central medallions devised. The weavers continued to create on vertical looms, with a shared warp (dovetailing) weft structure to avoid slits. The warps were cotton string. Sizes were generally scatters, but occasionally a special order came in, hence antique room size Navajos are very rare and very pricey. Distinct village/pueblo styles developed. Among the best are: Two Grey Hills (considered the tightest, closest of all Navajo weaving), Crystal Springs, and Ganado. Certain new patterns such as the “Storm pattern” with jagged lightning bolts emanating from a dark cloud developed. The Yei rug with dancing Kachina doll figures became popular. The palette has been expanded beyond the classic grey, tan, dark brown, and cream natural wool combination to again include reds, blues, and greens. Navajo pictorials include American flags, trains, and automobiles, domestic and local scenes and scenery. Individual artist weavers now command gallery shows and correspondingly elevated prices. There are several levels of Navajo work, and antique and vintage scatters with simple flat designs, medium weaves, and tritonal palettes, and in good floor worthy condition are still available reasonably. The Native American weaving tradition extends into Colorado with two-piece scatters with sharp sawtooth medallions and striped end borders, with wool tapestry weave on cotton warps. These descend from the Saltillo blankets...

An antique 17th century Brussels Old Testament Biblical tapestry, size 11 '3 H x 10'10 W, featuring Isaac with his sons, Jacob and Esau, and other figures nearby. Enclosed within an ...

The plain field is abrash banded in shades of light blue, the sections subtly blending in to one another rather than assertively indicating distinct dye lots. The equally plain borde...

This top condition, full pile western Persian town carpet displays an unusual staggered row vase design on a dark blue ground with details in ivory, green and goldenrod. He rust border shows floriated bottehs derived from European printed...

1930s Persian Tabriz Carpet ( 8'2" x 11'4" - 250 x 345 )

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...

This vintage Tabriz rug exudes refined elegance with its softly blushed field and delicately layered floral medallion in ivory and sand. Intricate rosettes, palmettes, and lattice vi...

A Scandinavian Arts & Crafts Tapestry from the late 19th century, envisioning nine birds in a floral reserve at top, somewhat reminiscent of a mille fleurs setting, with a large cart...

Chinese - Ningxia, Size: 12' 9"x 13'0"

Early 20th Century N.E. Persian Khorassan Moud Carpet 9'3" x 12' - 282 x 366 )

This distressed west Persian rustic carpet shows a nested and lobed light blue and ivory medallion on a rust-red field supported by a leaf and flower pattern. The visible ecru founda...

A modern Turkish flatweave Kilim accent carpet handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 7' 1" x 8' 5"

4'1 X 22'3. A wonderful antique Serab gallery-runner rug in a hard-to-find size. Serab is located on the edge of the Heriz weaving area and specializes in runners. Camel borders are ...

Quite The Beautiful Floral Design Antique English Needlepoint Flat Weave Area Rug, Woven In: England, Circa / Date: Mid To Late 19th century

This original Moroccan rug is styled after the Beni Ourain rugs that were produced by the nomadic Berber tribes in North Africa for centuries. Beni Ourain rugs are identified by thei...

3'4 x 4'9. Malayer, located just east of Hamadan in northwest Iran, has long been a center for finely woven tribal and village rugs. While often grouped under the Hamadan umbrella, ...

Antique Ferahan Sarouk oriental rug, circa 1910, small size An antique Ferahan Sarouk oriental rug, size 6'8" x 4'2", circa 1910. This lovely...

An antique Persian Kerman accent rug handmade during the early 20th century. The urban workshop weavers of Kerman considered the lifestyle of their t...

The rich navy indigo field of this carpet is rigorously organized by a strap work delineating cartouches and stiff connecting bars with palmette and split arabesque decoration. The m...

The Mid-Century Modern collection is skillfully sourced by N A S I R I and exclusive to our showroom. These flat-weaves embody the Minimalist sophistication that emerged in the mid-2...

A refined Malayer runner featuring an allover small-scale lattice of stylized floral and geometric motifs in warm beige, ivory, and soft sky blue. The delicate, repeating pattern cr...

This elegant Malayer runner features a tightly patterned field of repeating floral and geometric medallions in soft cream against a deep chocolate ground. Delicate border work frames...

A character-rich Kurdish rug featuring a striking series of octagonal medallions, each filled with intricate diagonal stripes and geometric motifs. Warm reds, terracottas, soft blue...

A refined Malayer runner featuring an allover pattern of delicate floral and geometric motifs in soft cream, warm brown, and touches of gray. The restrained, neutral palette gives t...

A striking antique Oushak featuring a warm coral field that glows with the soft radiance characteristic of early 20th-century Anatolian dyes. The central medallion, rendered in charc...