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A vintage Chinese Art Deco throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 3' 1" x 4' 11".

This Persian Malayer carpet circa 1900 consists of pure handspun wool and vegetable dyes. It is hand-knotted on a cotton warp and wool weft, featuring natural hues of indigo, gold, l...

Beautiful 17th Century Mughal Gallery Carpet - Size: 9 ft x 24 ft 8 in (2.74 m x 7.52 m)

An antique Persian Wagireh (Sampler) Mahal throw rug handmade during the early 20th century. This charming ruglet was originally used as a visual sampler to weave larger carpets. Measures: 3' 9" x 4' 10" Persian Rugs...

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'

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....

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

A vintage Persian flatweave Kilim accent rug in square format handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 6' 1" x 6' 8".

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)

An antique Persian Senneh Malayer accent rug handmade during the early 20th century with a pictorial design of a lion. Measures: 4' 10" x 8' 2".

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...

A contemporary Turkish flatweave Kilim room size carpet handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 8' 5" x 11' 11".

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

A modern Turkish flatweave Kilim large room size carpet handmade during the 21st century with some tribal design elements in geometric form. Measures: 10' 3" x 14' 2".

An antique Persian Tabriz accent rug handmade during the early 20th century. Measures: 4' 0" x 5' 5" Persian rugs carpets: Persia (Iran) is a moderately large country with a ...

A vintage Chinese Pictorial rug handmade during the mid-20th century with 2 dragons in ruby red over a green open field. Measures: 8' 11" x 11' 6".

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:...

an early 20th-century room square Turkish Oushak Rug Details rug no. j2078 size 6' 9" x 7'8''

This rug will ship in December. Made of soft yet super-durable PET, Vento is as stylish as it is practical. Inspired by our Vento Embroidery fabric, this large-scale lattice design h...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

An early 20th century Persian Tabriz. Since the 19th century, Iran started exporting artisan carpets around the world, especially to Europe. Artists used one of the three versions of...

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...

An antique Persian Malayer runner handmade during the early 20th century.

An antique Persian Afshar throw rug handmade during the early 20th century. Measures: 3' 11" x 5' 1".

Rustic Oversized Decorative Antique Luxurious Persian Sultanabad Rug, Country of Origin: Persian Rugs. Circa date: 1880. Size: 16 ft 10 in x 21 ft 10 in (5.13 m x 6.65 m)

A modern Turkish flat-weave Kilim large room size carpet handmade during the 21st century with a geometric large scale diamond-shaped pattern in earth tones with an overall khaki gre...

A vintage Persian Bidjar room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 9' 0" x 12' 7".

An antique Persian Serab rug in runner format with a rustic appeal handmade during the early 20th century. Measures: 2' 1" x 12' 1" Persian Rugs Carpets: Persia (Iran) i...

An antique Chinese Peking long gallery carpet handmade during the early 20th century in shades of cream and blue. Measures: 5' 9" x 16' 3" The craft of the hand-knotted carpet in China, and the surrounding areas including Mongolia and Tibet, extends into the early centuries of the first millennium, C.E., but we really have a firm grasp only beginning in the later 16th century with large, very coarsely woven carpets, often depicting dragons, created for the Imperial Forbidden City palaces. Chinese carpets have always been commercial and there are no tribal groups responsible for any of the carpet weaving strains. When the Ming Dynasty fell in 1644, with no Imperial patrons, production moved to the city of Ningxia in north central China where several workshops turned out more finely woven pieces for the Mandarins of the administrative Ch’ing bureaucracy and well-to-do merchants. Ningxia was the major Chinese carpet center up through most of the 19th century, with first allover and then medallion designs on cotton foundations in medium weaves. Palettes were initially limited to yellows, dark blue and cream, but later widened to include reds, browns and even green. These antiques were the first Chinese carpets to be exported to the West and they fitted in well with the craze for Chinese blue-and-white porcelain in the second half of the 19th century. Ningxia also wove shaped and rectangular small rugs for saddle underlays, chair (“throne”) seats and shaped backs, pillar carpets with dragons or monks for Buddhist monasteries, and long divided runners for monastery meditation halls. These small rugs are among the most collectible of all Chinese weavings. Weavers from Ningxia set up workshops in the capital Peking (Beijing) in the 1860’s and began weaving Western room sizes for export, primarily to America. In blue – and – white and polychrome palettes, with round wreath medallions, precious objects, seasonal flowers, paeonies, lotuses, fretwork, clouds, butterflies and bats, all relatively spaciously drawn. The round “Shou” (Good Luck) character is also a prominent decorative motif. There are also a few Peking landscape pictorials with pagodas, houses, bridges, waterscapes and boats. Peking carpets were woven right up until WWII and production began again after the Cultural Revolution around 1970. They are moderately well-woven, on cotton foundations, exactingly executed and indisputably Chinese. Many are in the blue-and-white style. Nothing else looks like a Peking carpet and for a Chinese “look” in a room, they are absolutely indispensable. Sizes range from scatters and a few runners, through the popular 9’12’ size, to large carpets over 20’ which must have been special orders. The earliest Peking Revival carpets are pliable and fairly thin, but they became heavier and more compact in the 20th century, in competition with Art Deco carpets from Tientsin. The modern, post- 1970, pieces are in the traditional Peking style, but are a little too regular and neat. Exactitude has been favored over character, as hard to explain that as it is. There are a number of all-silk and silk-and –metal thread pieces, many with inscriptions purporting to link them with rooms in the Imperial palaces, bringing very substantial auction prices, but none are really antique. The genre emerged after WWI and the present demand comes from mainland Chinese. The silk piles often stand in pattern relief against flat woven gold metal thread grounds. The inscriptions are apocryphal, the rugs are flashily opulent, perfect for nouveaux riches. The Art Deco period between the two World Wars saw a distinctive carpet industry developing in Tientsin (Tianjin) in northeastern China. These are highly prized for their transitional design character, neither overtly Chinese, nor abstractly modern/contemporary. Woven exclusively for export, usually by and for American firms, such as Nichols and Elbrook, they are totally in the “Jazz Age Modern” style of the 1920’s, often without borders, with abstract or abstracted patterns, and only with, at best, a few Chinese-y pattern elements. Vases asymmetrically placed in the corners are features of some of the more Chinese-y carpets. Open fields with floral sprays and branches growing in from the edges are anther design innovation. Often, Chinese motives have been re-imagined in more sharp-edged, abstract manners. Some have no references whatsoever to natural elements. The patterns are sharp and the rugs are never subdued, soft or restrained. The rugs are heavily constructed, with crisp, unfading dyes and medium to medium coarse weaves on cotton foundations. All are extremely well-executed, with none of the vagaries, variations or twists found on even high-quality Persian rugs. The majority are in the 9’ by 12’ format and a surprising number can be found in top condition. There also was a substantial production in Peking from, especially from the Fette factory. Elliptical and round carpets, and lighter, often pastel colors, were a specialty. Nothing looks like an Art Deco Chinese and they work well with traditional Chinese furniture and the most modern decor as well. These is no substitute for a good Chinese Art Deco carpet. Chinese carpets also include small scatters from Tibet, with high quality wool, floating dragons and allover textile patterns. The colors of vintage and modern pieces are bright, but there are antique small rugs...

A vintage Persian Gabbeh accent rug handmade during the mid-20th century with a tribal 'salt and pepper' design in black, cream, and blue, with once central medallion in rust orange....

Antique Perisan Tabriz Oriental carpet, circa 1900, Small Sized An antique Persian Tabriz oriental carpet, circa 1900. Size: 7'2" x 5'6". This large sized antique decorative rug...

This antique Persian Malayer carpet in pure wool and vegetable dyes circa 1900 features a triple diamond central medallion with an intricate multiple band border and vibrant red fiel...

Our 'Astor' rug is handknotted in Afghanistan using natural dyes and handcarded wool. This rug has both a modern and tribal feel to it making it versatile for any aesthetic. It featu...

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".

A vintage Chinese Art Deco room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century in shades of green and cream. Measures: 9' 0" x 11' 10".

A vintage Persian Bakhtiari tribal accent rug handmade during the Mid-20th Century. Measures: 4' 5" x 7' 0"

Beautiful Antique French Charles X Savonnerie Rug , Country of Origin / Rug Type: French Rug, Circa Date: 1820. Size: 10 ft 5 in x 14 ft 1 in (3.17m x 4.29 m).

an early 20th century tribal ersari rug in green and brown with a mini khani pattern often found in 19th century caucasian rugs Details rug no. j3942 size 10' 3" x 12' 10" (312 x 39...

a late 19th Century worn room size Turkish Oushak Rug Details rug no. j4728 size 8' 9" x 11' 2" (267 x 340 cm)

Tiger is a Joseph Carini signature carpet design that has been translated into countless color-ways. Our take on the traditional animal print gives it a fresh, unconventional appeal....

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

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...

Made with the highest quality Persian hand-carded, hand-spun wool and vegetable dyes, this rug resembles the antique original pieces crafted by the Kurdish weavers in north-western I...

Antique Persian Tabriz Oriental carpet, circa 1910, room sized. An antique Persian Tabriz oriental carpet, circa 1910. Size: 9'10" x 6'4". This large sized antique decorative rug...

Vintage Kilim composition - Langley design.

Antique Perisan Tabriz Oriental carpet, circa 1910, Room Sized An antique Persian Tabriz oriental carpet, circa 1910. Size: 11'3" x 8'6". This large sized antique decorative rug...

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

An antique Persian Malayer throw rug handmade during the early 20th century. Measures: 3' 6" x 6' 6".

An antique Persian Malayer throw rug handmade during the early 20th century. Measures: 3' 9" x 4' 10".

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

A vintage Persian Karajeh accent rug handmade during the Mid-20th Century. Measures: 4' 10" x 6' 6".

Beautiful antique Tribal Northwest Persian runner rug, country of origin / rug type: Persian tug, date: circa 1900. Size: 3 ft 4 in x 10 ft 4 in (1.02 m x 3.15 m). Simplicity in de...

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...

An antique Persian Sultanabad large carpet handmade during the early 20th century. Measures: 14' 3" x 17' 8".

Optical art Tabriz inspired by the work of Victor Vasarely. This late fourth quarter of the 20th century Tabriz carpet was woven with repurposed wool from antique and vintage rugs.