Tri-State Area - Turkish Rugs

Hand-knotted wool and originating from Turkey circa 1950-1960, this 8x13 vintage Ersari rug is from the same provenance, a sub-tribe of the Turkmen people often known for their more ...

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

This vintage 3x10 Turkish runner rug, hand-knotted in wool, circa 1960-1970, is a new addition to Rug & Kilim Collection. This design featuring field motifs in neutral tones, is likely to be inspired by Indian Mir rugs...

A modern Turkish tantric accent rug from the 21st century with a pictorial design of a flayed man over a black field. Original versions were employed by ...

A vintage Turkish Anatolian Art Deco style rug in runner format handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 1' 11" x 8' 1" 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...

Antique Turkish Oushak Rug (size adjusted) Size: 10'2" × 10'3" (309 × 312 cm). Radiating timeless elegance and artisanal mastery, this square antique Turkish Oushak rug (circa early ...

3'8 X 5'7. 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 vintage 3x5 rug is a bold new addition to Rug & Kilim’s Mid-Century Pasha Collection. This line is a commemoration, with rare curations we believ...

West Anatolia is one of the largest weaving regions in Turkey. Since the 15th century, Turkish rugs have always been on top of the list for having fine oriental rugs. Oushak rugs su...

An antique Turkish Oushak rug in runner format handmade during the early 20th century. Measures: 2' 8" x 10' 9" 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...

Made with hand-knotted wool and originating in the early 20th century, this 15x22 antique Persian rug is a rare and exciting new curation from our Antique collection. On the Design: Keen eyes will appreciate the play of medallion and open field, where the rich red underscores the large-scale geometric medallion enclosed in a thick, finely-detailed border. The natural sense of depth of the medallion pattern brings out both the natural, regal character of the design in kindred hues of rich red, blue, and pink, as well as the meticulous accenting hues of a grayish blue against the prevailing colorway. The construction hosts a lustrous wool that brings out the texture and finesse of this rare regal piece. Admirers of the craft will note the design influence of Turkish Isparta rugs...

Early 20th Century Turkish Oushak Carpet ( 12'3" x 15'10" - 375 x 485 cm )

Made with hand-knotted wool and originating circa 1950-1960, this 4x6 vintage rug is an exciting new piece in Rug & Kilim’s collection of mid-century distressed Turkish rugs. On th...

Made with hand-knotted wool and originating circa 1950-1960, this 5x8 vintage rug is an exciting new piece in Rug & Kilim’s collection of mid-century distressed Turkish rugs. On th...

Early 19th Century Turkish Anatolian Kula Carpet ( 4'6" x 5'2" - 137 x 158 )

Hand-knotted in wool and originating from Turkey circa 1960 – 1970, this 5x6 vintage rug is a unique addition to the Mid-Century Pasha Collection by Rug & Kilim—a curation of unique ...

An early 20th century Turkish Sivas. Sivas is a city in North Central Turkey, which is a major production site of Turkish rugs based on Persian designs. Often finely woven, Sivas rug...

Hand-knotted in wool and originating from Turkey circa 1960 – 1970, this 2x5 vintage Zeki Müren runner is a unique addition to the Rug & Kilim Collection for its wide range of colors...

A vintage Turkish Anatolian rug from the mid-20th century. Measures: 7' 3" x 9' 2".

Hand knotted in wool originating from Turkey circa 1910-1920, this antique rug is among the more intriguing Kazak tribal rugs added to our collections with atypical colorway variations like that of this inviting emphasis of pink. An atypically employed colorway among both traditional and transitional Kazak rugs, the natural complement of the light pink hue to the richer red, orange, and blue hues offers a sense of movement and control denoting the rarity and design appeal of this piece; particularly well suited to entryway and hallway projects. A welcome addition to the Antique & Vintage rug collection from Rug & Kilim. About the Collection: Antique rugs have been in Josh’s resume since he began in the industry almost 40 years ago when he was already recognized for one of the largest oriental rug collections in the United States. Each piece in the internationally recognized volume was hand picked for rarity, and of course aesthetic and beauty, now complementing one of the widest varieties of Persian rug and Turkish rug collections with the utmost attention to individuality and care. Because of Josh’s position in the wholesale rug industry he’s been responsible for promoting a number of collections throughout history, from breathtaking signature Tabriz, Sultanabad, Kerman Lavar, Agra, and Oushak classics to the more unsung jewels of the luxury industry. Vintage has also been synonymous with who we are since our beginning, particularly for our unparalleled Kilim collection, but with the rise of Mid Century collection the term vintage carpet has become very popular—especially exciting because often times many of the vintage carpets have also been treated, washed, dyed over, sheared, and modified—and has created a very successful category. We’re especially very proud of our vintage Kilims and Turkish rugs curated for our expansive collection of both area rugs and runners...

Originating from Turkey circa 1960-1970, this hand-knotted wool mid-century rug from Rug & Kilim’s commemorative Mid-Century Pasha Collection blends classic & Art Deco sensibilities ...

A modern Turkish Mohair room size carpet with a grey-colored long and lustrous pile from the 21st century in the style of minimalism. It may be used as a stand-alone piece or the fou...

A contemporary Turkish flat-woven Kilim carpet from the fourth quarter of the 20th century. This rug was woven with repurposed old wool to give it a vintage look and feel.

This vintage Turkish Silk Hereke rug, circa 1960, is an exceptional example of master-level weaving, crafted entirely of pure silk pile and silk foundation. Displaying an intricate g...

This 7x9 vintage rug is believed to be a rare mid-century Ersari rug, hand-knotted in wool and originating in Turkey circa 1950-1960. On the Design:...

A vintage Turkish flat-weave Kilim room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 9' 0" x 12' 2" Flat-weave rugs carpets: Knotted pile rugs are just on...

Antique Turkish Oushak carpets made in the late 19th century are renowned for their exquisite craftsmanship, intricate designs, and stunning color palettes. These carpets were handwo...

A beautiful 7 x 9 Art Deco vintage rug from Rug & Kilim’s growing Mid-Century Pasha Collection. Originating from Turkey circa 1960-1970 among the...

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

A modern Turkish flat-weave Kilim room size rug handmade during the 21st century with a colorful horizontal pattern. A statement piece with its bright and whimsical colors. Measur...

a mid-20th-century European room-size rug in muted colors Details rug no. j2944

Hand-knotted in wool, a 7x11 vintage distressed rug from the celebrated artist Zeki Muren with mid-century modern and art deco inspirationsone of his latest pieces to join Rug & Kili...

Hand-knotted in wool and originating from Turkey circa 1960 – 1970, this 5x9 vintage Zeki Müren rug is a unique addition to the Rug & Kilim Collection for its wide range of colors an...

Made with hand-knotted wool and originating circa 1950-1960, this 4x7 vintage rug is an exciting new piece in Rug & Kilim’s collection of mid-century distressed Turkish rugs. On the...

This vintage 6x12 Persian kilim is a tribal rug of Shahsavan provenance. Handwoven in wool, it originates circa 1950-1960. Further on the Design: This tribal Kilim favors strip...

A large Antique Oushak Rug in peach, sand, and brown from the early 20th century Details rug no. 10463 size 16' 7" x 18' 7" (505 x 566 cm) Antique oriental carpets and rugs from Ous...

A vintage Turkish Anatolian rug in runner format handmade during the mid-20th century with a contemporary geometric lattice pattern in shades of coral and terracotta over a light gre...

This antique hand-knotted Northwest Persian rug is distinguished by its rare color-blocked lattice pattern, composed of alternating geometric medallions in shades of sky blue, pistac...

Hand-knotted in wool circa 1950-1960, this 6x9 vintage Turkish rug features interesting soft colors for a work of its provenance. On the Design: Warm tones of peach pink, red, cr...

This vintage 3x5 Gabbeh Persian rug is from the latest entries in Rug & Kilim’s rare tribal curations. Hand-knotted in wool circa 1950-1960. On the Design: This tribal provenan...

Hand-knotted in wool, this 7x9 vintage rug originating from Turkey, circa 1960-1970, is a very special piece, featuring a light and refreshing mid-century classical design we believe...

This vintage 4x5 Gabbeh Persian rug is from the latest entries in Rug & Kilim’s rare tribal curations. Hand-knotted in wool circa 1950-1960. On the Design: This tribal provenanc...

Hand-knotted in wool and originating from Turkey circa 1960 – 1970, this 4x6 vintage Zeki Müren rug is a unique addition to the Rug & Kilim Collection for its floral patterns across ...

Handwoven in wool, circa 1950-1960, this 12x17 vintage kilim is among a special new curation of simple, near monochromatic flatweaves of bright color and a handsome flat weaving styl...

A vintage Turkish Anatolian carpet from the second quarter of the 20th century.

A vintage Turkish Tulu rug. A tribal rug that fits very well with contemporary furniture. All in red with an extra-long lustrous pile and uncountable wefts. No borders. No pattern. L...

Hand Knotted in wool circa 1960-1970, this 6x8 vintage rug is believed to be among the transitional designs of mid-century Turkish artist Zeki Müren. Its design bears a resemblance t...

Pillow made from a vintage Turkish Oushak rug. Measures: 17'' x 17''.

A vintage Turkish flatweave Kilim runner handmade during the Mid-20th Century. Measures: 2' 9" x 13' 5".

Handmade in flat-woven wool originating from Turkey circa 1950-1960, this vintage rug is a midcentury Kilim runner of a distinct, uncommon black colorway to this period, complemented by juxtaposed off-white stripe patterns in the weave for a natural positive negative play appealing to a wide array of modern projects. Designers will note the near pristine condition, subtle variation of stripes lending a mild distinction to the soothing movement, and the 3 x...

Hand-knotted in wool and originating from Turkey circa 1960 – 1970, this 6x6 vintage Zeki Müren square rug is a unique addition to the Rug & Kilim Collection for its wide range of co...

Hand-knotted in wool, circa 1960 – 1970, this 7x10 vintage Müren Art Deco rug is Mid-century curation from Rug & Kilim. It features a postmodern take on design, but with a Japanese s...

This vintage 6x6 Tulu rug is from the latest entries in Rug & Kilim’s mid-century tribal curations. Hand-knotted in wool from Turkey circa 1950-1960. Further on the design: Thi...

Antique Oushak wool rug featuring a luminous patina and soft, earthy tones. Handwoven with large-scale floral motifs and a spacious medallion design, this piece showcases the eleganc...

A matching pair of striped kilims from Central Turkey joined to make a large square floor cover. Very well preserved, sturdy and clean. Size can be adjusted, the panels can be sep...

Hand-knotted in wool and originating from Turkey circa 1960 – 1970, this 3x5 vintage Zeki Müren rug is a unique addition to the Rug & Kilim Collection for its wide range of subtle co...

This 8x14 vintage rug is believed to be a rare mid-century Ersari rug, hand-knotted in wool and originating in Turkey circa 1950-1960. On the Design: The Ersari are a sub-tribe of...

Handwoven in wool, this 12x16 oversized Kilim is from an inventive new contemporary flat weave collection by Rug & Kilim. On the Design: This modern take on classic panel-weaving ...

Made with hand-knotted wool and originating circa 1950-1960, this 5x6 vintage rug is an exciting new piece in Rug & Kilim’s collection of mid-century distressed Turkish rugs. On the...

Made with hand-knotted wool and originating circa 1950-1960, this 4x7 vintage rug is an exciting new piece in Rug & Kilim’s collection of mid-century distressed Turkish rugs. On th...