1950s rugs

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 […]
May 29, 2026

Of Royal Culture and Inheritance: The Silk Heriz Triclinium Carpet of 1868, Perhaps the Finest Surviving Example in the World

From the Rug & Kilim editorial and curatorial archive Our founder and principal Jahanshah Josh Nazmiyal has been in the carpet industry long enough to have […]
May 19, 2026

What William Morris, Paul Poiret, and the Bauhaus Each Understood About the Rug and What French Art Deco Proved

In the winter of 1883, William Morris stood before a room full of wool merchants, manufacturers, and assorted Victorian worthies in a lecture hall in Birmingham […]
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