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An antique Aubusson rug is a French carpet woven as flat tapestry rather than knotted pile, produced in and around the town of Aubusson in central France, mostly during the 18th and 19th centuries. This […]

An antique Caucasian rug is a hand knotted or flatwoven rug made in the mountain belt between the Black Sea and the Caspian, in what is now Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia and the southern Russian republics,

Malayer is the antique Persian rug that most buyers have handled without knowing its name. It is a village weave from west central Persia, made in and around the town of Malayer between Hamadan and

Every colour in an antique rug arrived there in a dye vat. Until the middle of the nineteenth century there was no other option: reds came from madder root and cochineal insects, blues from indigo,

A knot is the unit a hand knotted rug is made of. The weaver ties a short length of yarn around the warp threads, row after row, and the cut ends of those knots become

A rug’s foundation is the grid of threads the rug is built on: the vertical warps that run the length of the loom and the horizontal wefts that cross them. Everything else, the knots, the

An antique Kurdish rug is a hand knotted wool carpet woven at least a hundred years ago by Kurdish tribal and village weavers, principally in the highlands of northwest and western Persia, and recognizable by

An antique Sultanabad is a hand knotted Persian carpet from the district around the town of Sultanabad, now Arak, woven mostly between the 1880s and the 1920s and recognizable by its large scale, softly drawn

An antique 10×14 rug is a hand-knotted carpet measuring roughly ten feet by fourteen feet and woven at least 100 years ago. It is the largest of the three common room sizes and by far

An antique 8×10 rug is a hand-knotted carpet measuring roughly eight feet by ten feet and woven at least 100 years ago. It is the most widely bought room size, and for antiques it is

An antique 9×12 rug is a hand-knotted carpet measuring roughly nine feet by twelve feet and woven at least 100 years ago. It is the size most people mean by a room size carpet: large

An antique American hooked rug is a floor textile made by pulling loops of wool yarn or narrow strips of cloth up through a woven backing with a hand hook, rather than by knotting or