antique tapestries
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 […]
June 10, 2026
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 […]
June 8, 2026
There is a particular kind of looking that a great tapestry demands, slower than painting, more physical than sculpture, closer to reading than to seeing. The […]
June 1, 2026
The real spatial dimension does not get painted, it gets woven. Begin with hanging a piece such as Signed Vintage Lia Cook Tapestry slightly off-center on […]
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 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 […]
April 28, 2026
How U.S.–Iran Tensions Are Reshaping the World of Fine Rugs: From Safavid Courts to Sanction Regimes
There is a room in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York where a sixteenth-century Persian carpet stops people mid-stride. Because something in the […]
April 2, 2026
There is a particular kind of interior; rare, deliberate, and intellectually composed, where a rug does not decorate, but makes it art in itself. A residence […]
March 27, 2026
There are rooms – rare, disciplined rooms, where nothing is accidental. A salon overlooking Lake Como, where a 19th-century Aubusson anchors parquet floors beneath frescoed ceilings. […]
