A late 19th-century European Bessarabian rug from around 1890, The piece measures approximately 4’7″ × 6’7″ (per the seller listing).
The composition combines yellow, blue, and pink across a flat-woven field — a colorful folk-textile palette characteristic of the Bessarabian flat-weave tradition. Bessarabia is the historical name for a region between the Prut and Dniester rivers, today divided between Moldova and Ukraine; carpets from this tradition combine Ottoman, Russian, and European decorative vocabularies.
Hand-stitched wool flat-weave. Authentic one-of-a-kind antique European carpet.
At a glance
· Origin: Bessarabia (today’s Moldova / Ukraine region) · Period: Circa 1890 · Construction: Flat weave (wool)
· Dimensions: ~4’7″ × 6’7″
· Palette: Yellow / blue / pink · SKU: 18237