Antique Oushak rugs come from the town of Usak and its surrounding villages in western Anatolia, Turkey, one of the oldest continuously working carpet centers in the world. They are prized for three things above […]
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An antique kilim is a flatwoven rug, made without pile by tightly interweaving colored wefts through the warps, most often in the slit-weave tapestry technique. Kilims were woven by village and nomadic weavers across Anatolia,
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An antique Oriental rug is any rug hand-knotted or hand-woven at least 80 to 100 years ago in the great weaving belt of Asia, a region stretching from Turkey through Persia and the Caucasus to
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An antique Persian rug is a carpet hand-knotted in Persia, modern-day Iran, at least 80 to 100 years ago, woven from hand-spun wool (or silk) and colored with natural dyes. Persia is the historical heart
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Peking, Ningxia, and Chinese Art Deco are the three families you will meet most often when shopping for an antique Chinese rug, and the right one for you comes down to era, palette, and the
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The honest answer is that an antique Chinese rug is worth what its type, age, condition, size, and design quality together justify, and the range is wide. Two rugs that look similar at a glance
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Among antique Chinese rugs, one name commands a premium all its own: Walter Nichols. Working from the Chinese port city of Tientsin in the 1920s and ’30s, this American weaver-designer did something no one had
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Antique Chinese rugs stand apart from every other weaving tradition. Where Persian and Turkish carpets fill the field edge to edge, the great Chinese workshops did the opposite — they used open space, balance, and
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The Carpets of China: Hybrid Material Culture The Silent Scholar: An Introduction to the Chinese Rug For centuries, the Chinese carpet has occupied a unique position in the world of antique textiles. Unlike the high-energy,
Welcome To The Fascinating World Turkish Anatolian Rugs Turkish rugs, often referred to by the broader geographical term Anatolian rugs, represent one of the most complex intersections of art, utility, and trade in human history.
The Gold Standard of Chinese Art Deco: The “Super Rugs” By Walter Nichols In the world of antique area rugs, few names carry as much weight as Walter Nichols. Often credited with inventing the “Chinese
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Introduction to the Navajo World Explore our curated selection of handwoven Navajo rugs as well as other types of Native American rugs and own a piece of American artistry today. Defining Navajo and Terminology What
