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September 30, 2026

Navajo Rugs: History, Art, Design & the Legacy of Diné Weaving

  Navajo rugs occupy a singular position within the history of American textile art. Woven by Diné artists across the American Southwest, these textiles represent far […]
September 9, 2026

On the Changing Nature of Money, and a Quiet Shift in How the World’s Great Collections Are Built

Something has changed in the psychology of collecting, and it has changed quietly. For most of the modern era, the serious collector acquired for love, for […]
September 3, 2026

The Evolution of Floral Motifs in Antique Rugs and Kilims: Mapping the Pomegranate, Tulip, and Carnation

We had a tapestry acquisition unfolding itself in the studio a while ago. Josh and the team just stood there, silently admiring the way the light […]
August 28, 2026

The Total Art: Vienna’s Century, From the Gold Frieze to the Contemporary Era

In the dining room of a banker’s house in Brussels there is a wall of gold. Klimt designed it; the Stoclet Frieze, a tree of life […]
August 19, 2026

Christian Bérard, Jean-Michel Frank, and the Making of Nelson Rockefeller’s Most Personal Room

From the Rug & Kilim editorial and curatorial archive In April 1939, the SS Normandie docked in New York Harbor carrying, somewhere in her hold, a […]
July 17, 2026

Zeki Müren and the Carpet as Self-Portrait: The Pasha Who Designed His Own Floor

In the showroom of Hüseyin Kaplan, in the Sultanahmet quarter of Istanbul beneath the minarets of the old city, there are more than five hundred carpets […]
June 29, 2026

Vintage Andean Frazada Kilim and the Three Thousand Years of Living Memory Held in Its Weave

The most sophisticated rooms in America are being furnished, increasingly, with an object its makers never intended to sell. The Andean frazada, a handwoven kilim produced […]
June 23, 2026

Rug & Kilim’s Tapestry Artists’ Series: In Dialogue with Joanne Soroka

There are artists who weave cloth and the ones who weave ideas. And then there are artists; rare, serious, working at a register that most practitioners […]
June 10, 2026

Rug & Kilim’s Tapestry Artists’ Series: In Dialogue with Jeni Ross

There is a moment, familiar to anyone who has stood inside a Jeni Ross installation, when the room stops being a room. Not because the work […]
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