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

Antique Persian Tabriz Oriental carpet, circa 1900, Room Size. An antique Persian Tabriz oriental carpet, circa 1900. Size: 11'8" x 8'7". This large sized antique decorative rug was...

Hand knotted in the cc-tapis atelier in Kathmandu, Nepal. The rug is made with a cotton weave, a Himalayan wool and bamboo silk, coming from the areas surrounding the atelier. 89.000...

This vintage Persian Pelas flat-weave rug was made circa mid-20th century by artisan weavers in Iran. These old-world craftsmen used the finest hand-carded, hand-spun cotton with all...

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

The Rapture Collection is the exception to our hand-woven only rule. Woven Concepts purist philosophy focuses on the creation of hand-made, high-end rugs. ...

An antique Persian Mahal room size carpet handmade during the early 20th century. Measures: 8' 0" x 11' 5".

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...

A vintage Chinese Art Deco room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 9' 2" x 11' 7".

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

Rustic Jewel Tone Bold Antique Persian Heriz Serapi Medallion Rug, Country of Origin: Persia, Circa date: 1910. Size: 9 ft 9 in x 11 ft 9 in (2.97 m x 3.58 m)

Antique Persian Tabriz oriental carpet, circa 1920, room sized. An antique Persian Tabriz oriental carpet, circa 1920. Size: 12'1"" x 9'0"". This large sized antique decorative ru...

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".

A vintage Persian Mahal throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 2' 3" x 4' 7".

A vintage Persian Tabriz large room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 13' 5" x 16' 4".

An antique Persian Malayer small throw rug handmade during the early 20th century with a rustic design of animals and flowers, and a pictorial depiction of the Classic Persian lion...

A vintage Persian Tabriz small accent rug handmade during the mid-20th century with a pictorial design of a leopard chasing a deer over a red background. Colorful birds and floral el...

A 19th century French Empire drop front secretary with black as a marble top and side columns with bronze mounts, three drawers below and one drawer above. Double brass locking syste...

An antique Persian Joshegan rug from the early 20th century. Measures: 2' 0" x 2' 9"

A vintage Persian Gabbeh throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 2' 8" x 3' 11".

The Rapture Collection is the exception to our hand-woven only rule. Woven Concepts purist philosophy focuses on the creation of hand-made, high-end rugs. The Rapture Collection rugs...

An antique Persian Tabriz pictorial accent rug handmade during the early 20th century. Measures: 4' 6" x 6' 0" Persian rugs carpets: Persia (Iran) is a moderately large ...

The Rapture Collection is the exception to our hand-woven only rule. Woven Concepts purist philosophy focuses on the creation of hand-made, high-end rugs. The Rapture Collection rugs...

The Rapture Collection is the exception to our hand-woven only rule. Woven Concepts purist philosophy focuses on the creation of hand-made, high-end rugs. The Rapture Collection rugs...

This flat-weave textured rug is crafted with the finest hard-carded, hand-spun wool by village artisan weavers in Afghanistan. Custom sizes and colors available. Rug size 11'10" x 14...

Moooi small menagerie of extinct animals square rug in low pile polyamide. Complementing the Mooois Milan 2022 exhibition, 3D works of artist- and desi...

Antique Perisan Tabriz Oriental carpet, circa 1920, Room Sized An antique Persian Tabriz oriental carpet, circa 1920. Size: 11'1" x 7'5". This large sized antique decorative rug w...

Antique Persian Tabriz Oriental Carpet, circa 1900, Room Sized An antique Persian Tabriz oriental carpet, circa 1900. Size: 12'9" x 9'2". This large sized antique decorative rug wa...

A vintage Persian Mahal room size rug handmade during the mid-20th century with a Classic Herati pattern in grey-brown, hints of teal, and a light ...

Elegant Modern Transitional Geometric Design Rug. Country Of Origin: Pakistan. Circa date: Modern. Size: 7 ft 5 in x 10 ft (2.26 m x 3.05 m)

A vintage Persian Karajeh throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 1' 11" x 2' 10".

A vintage Turkish flatweave Kilim gallery carpet handmade during the mid-20th century in shades of black and dark brown. Measures: 5' 11" x 11' 8".

A vintage Persian Malayer small room size accent rug in rustic earth tones handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 6' 6" x 9' 9".

A vintage Persian Shiraz rug from the mid-20th century. Measures: 5' 6" x 8' 3"

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 arche...

A vintage Turkish flatweave Kilim room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 10' 8" x 14' 1".

A vintage Persian Hamadan throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 3' 1" x 6' 9".

Made in Iran with the highest quality Persian hand-carded, hand-spun-wool and all vegetable dyes, this runner rug resembles the original prized antique ...

An antique Persian Senneh throw rug handmade during the early 20th century with an overall rustic appeal in shades of grey, red, and cream. Measures: 3' 8" x 4' 8" Persian rugs &am...

A vintage Turkish Anatolian tribal room size carpet handmade during the Mid-20th Century. Measures: 9' 11" x 14' 3".

Hand-knotted in wool and all natural silk, this modern 4×6 rug hails from the latest additions to the Mid-Century Modern Collection by Rug & Kilim — the first representation of varie...

A vintage Turkish Anatolian modernist small rug in runner format handmade during the mid-20th century in shades of cream, light blue, and blue grey.

A modern Turkish flat-weave Kilim large room size carpet handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 13' 2" x 16' 6" 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...

An antique Turkish Oushak rug from the early 20th century with a distressed appeal, but in strong and durable condition. Measures: 2' 8" x 3' 9"

A vintage Persian Hamadan throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 3' 7" x 4' 7".

An antique Persian Afshar tribal accent rug handmade during the early 20th century. Measures: 4' 6" x 6' 2".

An antique English needlepoint carpet from the early 20th century. Measures: 9' 3" x 11' 9"

An antique Persian Tabriz room size carpet handmade during the early 20th century. Measures: 10' 10" x 13' 2" Persian Rugs Carpets: Persia (Iran) is a moderately large countr...

A vintage Turkish Tulu accent rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 4' 10" x 6' 10".

This Persian Tabriz hand-knotted rug is made from the finest hand-carded, hand-spun wool and is distinguished by its excellent weave, and by the remarkable adherence to the classical...

A contemporary Turkish flatweave Kilim large room size carpet handmade during the 21st century in shades of white and beige. This patchwork style rug consists of hand-weaving togethe...

An antique Persian Gabbeh rug from the early 20th century with a pictorial design. Measures: 3' 11" x 12' 1"

A vintage Persian Veece small accent carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 5' 3" x 6' 8".

Antique Persian Tabriz Oriental carpet, circa 1920, room sized. An antique Persian Tabriz oriental carpet, circa 1920. Size: 9'6" x 7'1". This large sized antique decorative rug...

A vintage Persian Malayer room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century with a pattern inspired by the Zil-i-Sultan (Shadow of the Sultan) design. The carpet is predominantly...

Our "Beatrix" rug is part of Nasiri's Decorative Patina collection. It is a reproduction of the fine Central Asian Khotan carpets, which were once known as Samarkand. The renowned an...

Hand knotted in the cc-tapis atelier in Kathmandu, Nepal. The rug is made with a cotton weave, a Himalayan wool and linen, coming from the areas surrounding the atelier. 89.000 indiv...

Hand-knotted in the cc-tapis atelier in Kathmandu, Nepal. The rug is made with a cotton weave and a Himalayan wool and pure silk coming from the areas surrounding the atelier. 252.000 individual knots per squaremeter approximately. The sale of every rug supports cc-foreducation. Maarten has always had an affinity for birds and years ago he came across the illustrations by John James Audubon and John Gould which have been inspiration ever since. Inspiration which he has tweaked, morphed and abstracted into a collection of ultra-detailed rugs. Maarten De Ceulaer was born in Belgium in 1983. He first studied Interior Design at the Sint-Lukas Hogeschool in Brussels. Attracted by conceptual and narrative design, he continued his studies at the Design Academy Eindhoven. A strong passion for travelling inspired his graduation project ‘A Pile of Suitcases’, which was immediately picked up by Nina Yashar...

an early 20th Century Corridor Size Northwest Persian red and blue rug. The medallion was intentionally woven off the century of the rug Details rug no. j2934 size 6' 6" x 15' 8" (1...