Patterns / Designs

An antique Khotan solves a room problem that almost nothing else in the antique market solves. It is a hand knotted wool pile rug from the oasis city of Khotan in the Tarim Basin, on […]

An antique Afshar is the rug that people fall for in a shop and then assume they cannot afford, right up to the point they look at the ticket. It is a hand knotted wool

An antique Bessarabian is the European flat woven carpet that most buyers meet without a name for it: large roses or garlands drawn boldly on a dark ground, no pile at all, and a scale

An antique Bakhtiari is the rug you buy when the room is too big for most antiques and you do not want a medallion in the middle of it. It comes from the Chahar Mahal

An antique Serab rug is the answer to a question most rug guides never ask: what do you put in a hallway that is twelve, fifteen, nineteen feet long? Serab is a village weave from

An antique Bidjar rug is the heaviest thing most people will ever put on a floor, and almost everything else about buying one follows from that. It is a hand-knotted wool carpet from the town

An authentic antique Oushak is a hand-knotted rug woven in and around Usak in western Turkey, usually in the late 19th or early 20th century. A reproduction is a newer rug in an Oushak design,

The best online stores for antique Caucasian and tribal rugs are specialist dealers who photograph the back and ends of every rug, give measured sizes and a circa date, disclose repairs and reduced sizes, and

You can buy an antique Peking rug from specialist antique rug dealers, online galleries and some auction houses. Rugs On Net, a family-owned New York gallery since 1979, lists more than 800 Peking rugs, most

An authentic antique rug is handmade, about 100 years old or more, and honestly described. Check the back for individual knots, the fringe for warp ends rather than sewn-on trim, the colors for natural variation,