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Authentic Cotton Agra rug Antique Water Color Vegetable Dye Beige 6' x 9' 183cm x 274cm Circa 1920 "This is an exquisite 1920's Cotto...

An antique Persian Malayer accent rug handmade during the early 20th century. Measures: 4' 8" x 6' 10".

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

An antique Persian Tabriz in pale green, blues and yellow. Measures: 10'4'' x 13'9''.

An early 20th century Antique turkish oushak runner size 3' x 12' (91 x 366 cm).

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 large room-size mid 20th century Turkish rug in predominantly in Pink Measures: 10'5'' x 12'3".

A pair of fine Turkish runners from the 1st quarter of the 20th century. Measuring: 3'4'' x 9'10'' and 3'4'' x 10' respectively.  

A modern Moroccan room size area rug from the 21st century. Measures: 8' 7" x 12' 6"

Konya wide runner rug. A great old village runner rug from Central Turkey. Rug shows its age but still sturdy and very charismatic.

A vintage Persian flatweave Kilim small room size carpet in square format handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 7' 1" x 8' 1".

A modern Moroccan rug from the 21st century.

A pair of mid-20th century Turkish Anatolian rug mats with a lavender field pops of green and pink accents. One piece is 1 inch wider than the other. 2'8" x 4'8" and 2'9" x 4'8" r...

An abstract one-of-a-kind large square antique Turkish oushak 1920s rug with an abstract motif in soft green sitting on a wheat gro...

Mid 20th Century High Decorative Turkish Tribal Rug 6'8'' x 9'4'' Kars is a village located in Northeast of Turkey. The weavers in this area tend to make long runners and long odd ...

A 20th century Persian Kerman with a matching repetitive floral design in field and border.

A vintage Persian Heriz carpet from the mid-20th century.

Antique Persian Serapi Rug, Country of origin / rug type: Persian rugs, Circa date: 1900. Size: 9 ft x 11 ft 6 in (2.74 m x 3.51 m)

A vintage American Braid round/circular accent rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 7' 1" x 7' 1".

a late 19th century Antique Turkish Oushak runner featuring a pumpkin orange field, the green border with an all-over design attributed to the Arts & Crafts movement. Measures: 4'”x...

An antique Persian Malayer rug in runner format handmade during the early 20th century. Measures: 2' 10" x 12' 4" Persian rugs carpets: Persia (Iran) is a moderately lar...

Room square size Turkish Kilim from the middle of the 20th century in the style of Mid-20th Century Modern. Measures: 9'8'' x 9'10''.

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

An early 20th century antique Persian Tabriz rug. Powder sky blue field, gold/yellow accents. 9'10' x 12'9'' Tabriz rug weavers drew on a varied repertoire of delicate designs: mul...

A vintage Turkish Anatolian room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 8' 5" x 13' 0".

A dazzling European modernist carpet with intense colors and an abstract design. 7' x 9'10''

An early 20th-century Persian Malayer carpet Measure: 4'2'' x 6'

Large-size pillow made from a Persian Kurd rug. zipper closure and poly-fill insert provided. Measures: 18'' x 23''.

One-of-a-kind Turkish deco runner with a flurry of animals on a mint green field. Measures: 2.10" x 8.11".

An early 20th Century Persian Tabriz rug with an elegant all over design on a light blue ground. Dominant accents in ivory, brown and yellow 10'10'' x 14'6''

A late 20th-century Turkish Konya Rug with a prayer niche design on a blue field Measures: 4'9'' x 6'1''.

Connossier caliber Persian Sarouk Ferehan rug mat in full pile and excellent condition, circa 1890. Measures: 1'10'' x 2'7''.

Persian Mahal scatter size rug from the 1st quarter of the 20th century. 3'5'' x 4'9'' Mahal Persian carpets from the 19th century and turn of the 20th century have become one of t...

Persian Mahal runner with an all-over motif in soft muted palette 2'6'' x 11'3'' Mahal Persian carpets from the 19th century and turn of the 20th centur...

An early 20th century colorful palace size Turkish Oushak rug. 15'5'' x 22'10''

A vintage Turkish flat-weave Kilim accent rug handmade during the mid-20th century with an asymmetrical horizontally striped design in shades of red and black. Measures: 5' 9" x 7...

A vintage Chinese Art Deco throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century with a pictorial design of a dragon in black, blue, red, goldenrod, and light blue-grey over a cream-white borderless field. Measures: 1' 3" x 1' 6" 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...

This Persian Tabriz carpet was woven by the order of Prince Shahrukh Mirza circa 1870, as stated by the signature in the carpet's border. It consists of a cotton warp and thread, hand-knotted pure wool pile and natural vegetable dyes. The level of detail is extraordinary, highlighted further by the carpet's rich gold, navy and red tones, and balanced by its soft pinks, greens and light blues. It features a Garden of Eden design...

An early 20th Century Chinese rug with an animal motif on a navy field Measures: 4'4'' x 6'10''.

Turkish Anatolian runner with a simple multi medallion motif on a camel ground from the middle of the 20th century. Measures: 2'10” x 12'2”.

An antique Persian Gabbeh throw rug handmade during the early 20th century with tribal design elements scattered throughout the undyed natural wool colored (cream/light brown) field....

A vintage Turkish Anatolian room size rug handmade during the mid-20th century with a geometric tribal design. Measures: 8' 8" x 11' 0"

An authentic one of a kind Classical Palace size antique Persian Bidjar rug in astonishing excellent full pile condition. 15'7'' x 22'4'' Bidjar carpets are world renowned for thei...

Incredible vintage mahal rug sultanabad rug area rug 9'8" x12'9" (10' x 13') 294cmx389cm Circa 1960 "This is a magnificent Vintage Sultanabad Mahal rug. It has a rare bo...

An early 20th-century Persian Heriz small rug. Measures: 3'7'' x 4'5''.

An early 20th century all over Formal design Persian oversize long carpet in pretty green, blues and khaki tones Measures: 9'5'' x 17'8''.

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

1920s Persian Heriz accent rug in warm colors Measures: 4'5'' x 6'2''

An early 20th-century Turkish Sivas Runner Details rug no. j1884 size 2' 9" x 11' 2" (84 x 340 cm)

early 20th century Persian Tabriz Pictorial rug in predominant light blue featuring a flurry of animals floating in field and border. majority of the animals look like sea horses and...

A vintage Turkish flatweave Kilim room size carpet handmade during the Mid-20th Century. Measures: 9' 2" x 12' 0".

An antique Persian Malayer runner handmade during the early 20th century. Measures: 3' 1" x 9' 11".

An early 20th-century tribal Persian Afshar rug. 5'2'' x 6'7''

A vintage Turkish flatweave Kilim room size carpet handmade during the Mid-20th Century. Measures: 8' 4" x 12' 0".

An early 20th century Antique Turkish Oushak rug highlighted by an apple green color ground. Measures: 8'8'' x 10'7''.

Small square size Turkish deco rug with a repetitive circular motif throughout in array of colors. Measures: 3'7'' x 4'.

a rare mid 20th century excellent condition Greek Carpet The overall ascending pattern of animals and birds amongst cloud bands is on a dark chocolate field. 9'8'' x 12'3''

A full pile excellent condition early 20th century Khotan rug. Gray ground, red accent pomegranates throughout with a lavender multi band border, circa 1920, measures: 5'11" x 9'.

a circa 1900 authentic Angora Wool Excellent Condition Turkish Oushak Rug with a formal floral design with accent colors in orange brown and green on a soft red ground. The rug has a...

Marvelous small plush Swedish Rya rug from the 21st century with a pictorial motif Measures: 1'2” x 2'1” Swedish Rya rugs are extremely colorful, lov...