Manhattan - Turkish Rugs

This predominantly peach tone carpet from western Anatolia follows classical ottoman archetypes with a flame-edged hexagon medallion and chunky arabesque corners. The narrow main bor...

This Pelas flatweave rug is made with handspun wool and natural dyes. It is inspired by the Antique kilims that are native to the Kurdish region in Ir...

5'6 x 12'10. From Kars in the North East of Turkey these light colored rugs are similar to Oushak and are among the most popular oriental carpets, known for the high quality of their...

This low pile west Anatolian workshop town carpet has a tone on tone, very subdued pattern in ivory beige and palest peach in a Persian Heriz style. Both borders and medallion are li...

The chalk gray field displays a tall 16 point medallion and soft pink Sub-medallion, with lesser sprays, tendrils and tiny palmettes. Small ecru- accented corners and light brown car...

8'10 x 12'2. The city of Sivas is in West Turkey is well known for weaving fine rugs often with a classical Persian design. Appreciated for their decorative style and using the best ...

A modern rustic Turkish flatweave Kilim room size carpet handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 10' 8" x 15' 4"

Five columns of hooked complex palmettes and Yaprak ("Leaf") cruciforms alternate on the Turkey red field of this western Turkish workshop rug. The peach border displays alternating ...

A vintage Turkish Anatolian tribal room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 10' 8" x 14' 2"

A vintage Turkish Anatolian room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 8' 6" x 10' 4".

11'5 X 13'2. Even today, Oushak rugs are still the first choice of professional interior designers. Sometimes this is because when grading Oushak carpets, carpet connoisseurs will no...

This vintage tribal flatweave rug was handmade in Turkey. The Mid-Century Modern Collection is skillfully sourced by N A S I R I and exclusive to our showroom. These flatweaves embod...

3'6 X 6'7. Oushak's are known for their soft palettes combined with eccentric drawing. Oushak in western Turkey has the longest continuous rug weaving history, stretching back at lea...

A vintage Turkish Anatolian throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 3' 1" x 5' 7".

A charming antique Oushak rug from Western Anatolia, circa early 20th century, featuring a soothing palette and large-scale botanical motifs. The soft blue-gray field is adorned with...

1940 Vintage Hand Woven Turkish Kayseri Silk Rug, Taupe, 3'11 x 5'7. Kayseri rugs are handwoven in or around the city of Kayseri in central Turkey. The best-known rugs from this dist...

The ruby red field of this urban city carpet is centered by a pendanted slightly notched oval ligh, arabesque-filled medallion, supported by wildly blossoming vases, secondary green ...

A vintage Turkish Anatolian tribal room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 11' 0" x 14' 3"

An approximately 6' x 9' custom order version of the existing 10' 4" x 13' 3" Turkish Tulu Shag rug (1stDibs Ref: LU882322047222). Photos within the listing are of the existing 10' 4...

This magnificent west Turkish carpet is in the classical Ottoman style somewhat removed with d closely dotted red-brown field displaying a central hexagon medallion and pendanted fra...

This relatively recent small all wool scatter shows three identical cruciform sawtooth medallions on a plain straw field. Outer cream border of stars and bars; inner light blue fram...

Our Relief rug is hand-knotted, and made from the finest hand-carded, hand-spun undyed wool of grey and beige tones. Many of the rugs made in the villages surrounding the city of Shi...

3'8 x 7'8 Vintage Turkish Oushak Rug . Even today, Oushak rugs are still the first choice of professional interior designers. Sometimes this is because when grading Oushak carpets, c...

A vintage Turkish Oushak square room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century with a large-scale light green cane design of 6 poles over a co...

A contemporary Turkish flatweave Kilim room size carpet handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 9' 10" x 13' 2".

This western Anatolian town carpet is a study in muted golden brown tones, with a lightly drawn, yet complex medallion on a golden brown field, and framed in ochre floral borders. ...

5'1 X 10'11. This vintage Turkish flat weave Kilim is hand-woven. The simplicity and boldness of this piece can also give a contemporary feel and is able to look at home in both a mo...

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A contemporary Turkish flatweave Kilim room size carpet handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 9' 11" x 12' 11".

A vintage Turkish Anatolian rug in runner format handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 2' 7" x 7' 4" 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 flatwoven piece shows fifteen vertical stripes with micro-striations uniformly within, on a borderless, ecru ground. Adjustable dimensions. As new condition. Rug Measures 4...

Primarily in ecru tones, the plain field shows a simple narrow broken border of dark dashes. Similar, but less salient, dashes run up and across the field at wide intervals producing...

A broad plain ecru border frames a row by row pattern of broken and complete rectangles outlined in near black, in a quasi-Moroccan style on an ecru ground. Every now and again a rectangle of darkest brown bars...

A contemporary Turkish flatweave Kilim large oversize carpet handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 16' 0" x 20' 8".

A modern Persian flat-woven Kilim in the Souf style of a flat-weave carpet with piled motifs. Measures: 3' 6" x 6' 8"

Mid 20th Century Turkish Anatolian Carpet 4' 3" x 7' 1"

4'8 X 9'4. This vintage Turkish flat weave Kilim is hand-woven. The simplicity and boldness of this piece can also give a contemporary feel and is able to look at home in both a mode...

A contemporary Turkish flatweave Kilim large room size carpet handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 12' 5" x 15' 4"

A vintage Turkish flatweave Kilim small room size carpet handmade during the late 20th century. Measures: 7' 3" x 10' 6".

A vintage Turkish flatweave Kilim small room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 7' 7" x 10' 5".

An antique Turkish Oushak carpet, size 13'0 x 10'3, circa 1910. This lovely handwoven carpet features a diffuse design on a soft ivory field, with accents of soft rose. The subtly ...

Softly toned, nearly monochrome coarse weave city carpet with a near shadow medallion design. Beige with light brown accents overall. Fairly good condition.

A vintage Turkish Anatolian tribal room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 10' 0" x 14' 11"

This Charmo flatweave rug is made with handspun wool and natural dyes. Its mid-century modern style is handwoven by skilled artisans interlocking the warp and weft threads on a loom....

In the general Persian Heriz style, with a boldly pendanted and partially stepped hexagonal diamond enclosing an ecru octogramme sub-medallion, on the open light brownfield; multiply...

Although somewhat worn, this Oushak is better woven than most. The red field displays a giant ivory medallion with four scrolling field intrusions, giving the effect of giant blades....

The very pale, slightly abrashed pink field displays a three column pattern of ragged palmettes and yaprak (leaf) lozenges in the Classic "Smyrna" style. The rose border presents oct...

This extra-large, west anatolian coarsely woven carpet shows a neutral field & green accents with a three column design of giant ragged palmettes and a central run of Yaprak ("Leaf")...

The light brown, totally unobstructed field is defined only by triangular ecru floral corners, and is framed by a particularly wide ecru main border with grass green stems, buds and ...

The cream pink sub- field shows an open layout of short floral sprays around an off-white small medallion. Powder border with widely spaced geometric palmettes. Coarse weave, slight ...

This west Anatolian town carpet is a subdued study in ivory, and very pale green. The cream subfield is edged with small flowers and centres a lobed, pendanted and pointed medallion....

The straw-ivory field of this western Anatolian town carpet displays a generously spaced pattern of Harshang palmettes, flowering branches, floating leaves and a central sharply serr...

4'7 X 7'2. A Turkish recreation of a Caucasian rug with the intricate details perfectly hand knotted to create this beautiful piece. Colors: greens/brick.

5'5 X 9'7. This vintage Turkish flat weave Kilim is hand-woven. The simplicity and boldness of this piece can also give a contemporary feel and is able to look at home in both a mode...

This unusual east Turkestan kenare shows a windowpane field in a three by eight array, all on a light blue ground, with alternations of roundel “moon” medallions with circular openwo...

This indigo and denim blue Turkish overdyed sparta carpet has a pattern defined by the wear beyond the all-over general distress. Vertical and horizontal off white strips cross near ...

A basically tone-on-tone study in brown tones on this antique very finely woven Kashir pile prayer rugs with half cypress trees on the sides of a millefleurs field. Skinny cypresses ...

In a loose version of the popular Harshang allover pattern, there are five implicit columns of ragged palmettes, fringed rosettes and textured plaquettes on the rust-red field, all a...

This central Anatolian village Tulu is totally pink, both in the long shaggy pile and in the multi-wefted foundation. Abrash, but no borders or pattern.

The oatmeal field on this carpet is decorated by five, lobed, slate medallions with hexagonal sand centers and flower in-fills. The slate border features octogrammes, shield palmette...