antique and vintage rugs
July 17, 2026
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 […]
July 10, 2026
The Dutch did not look abroad for the floors of their palaces. This is a small fact with large implications. When the courts of Europe sent […]
June 29, 2026
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
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 […]
May 29, 2026
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
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 […]
May 15, 2026
In the final years of the sixteenth century, the treasury of France was hemorrhaging. Not to war alone though there had been enough of that but […]
May 13, 2026
Every serious designer knows the moment. You walk into a room that is not yet finished; the furniture placed but provisional, the walls painted but unconvinced, […]
May 4, 2026
In April 2016, three rugs arrived at Christie’s King Street in London that had not been seen in public for over a century. They had not […]
