Ushak rugs have been in production since the 15th century with superb wool and natural dyes. Unlike other Turkish rugs, Ushak rugs influenced after Persian rugs and the woven with Ghiordies knots and all double knotted, their design is feature intricate motifs of vines and leaves and typically based on geometric motifs. Measures: 2'8" x 3'4".
Fine antique Persian Bakhtiari rug, circa 1910 in excellent condition. Measures: 2'3" x 3'7".
Beautiful handmade Persian Bakhtiari rug is in excellent condition with naturals dye. The Bakhtiari tribe, based in Chahar Mahal and Bakhtiari, is well-known for their rugs and weaving. They have been weaving rugs exported around the globe since the early 19th century.
The wagireh or sampler is perhaps the most enigmatic of carpets. Made as a template or pattern for the carpet design and production of larger rugs, they are generally small pieces the size of a scatter rug or mat.
This is an authentic handmade rug. It was made in Kurdish town circa 1910s or before. The materials are wool pile with cotton foundation. The colors are from vegetable dyes, and the general pattern is geometric design inside two borders.
The overall condition is good, especially when its age is taken into consideration. There are no tears, breaks or holes. The side bindings are intact and original. The ends are bound. The pile is high. The rug has been professionally washed.
Uniquely, Shahsavan rugs and carpets were woven in an area of Persia known as the Transcaucasus – located today in extreme Northwest Iran and the caucuses.
Shahsavan weavings have a strongly tribal flavor with highly abstract, geometric designs and rich colors.
This saddlebag has very fine weave and it is in excellent condition.
Antique Turkish Oushak rugs have been woven in Western Turkey since the beginning of the Ottoman period. Historians attributed to them many of the great masterpieces of early Turkish carpet weaving from the 15th-17th centuries. However, less is known about what happened to production there in the eighteenth and early 19th centuries.
Pictorial rugs are some of the most over-the-top examples of the artistry, talent and determination needed to design and construct a fine, everlasting carpet.
Portraits of dignitaries, important officials and high-ranking people are also found in antique pictorial rugs. With the same token, weavers also choose to illustrate important scenes from history and literature.
Typifying pomp and circumstance, this Kerman carpet features a royal portrait.
Tapestry manufacture at Aubusson and in the upper valley of the Creuse in central France.
They have developed from looms in isolated family workshops established by Flemings that are noted in documents from the 16th century.
The town of Felletin is identified as the source from which came the Aubusson tapestries in the inventory of Charlotte of Albret, Duchess of Valentinois and widow of Cesare.
