Hand-knotted Rugs

November 27, 2025

Rug & Kilim and the Making of New York’s Modern Textile Language

In every generation of art, there emerges an atelier not merely producing objects, but shaping the very language of its discipline. In New York—where painting found […]
November 13, 2025

The House of Continuity: How Rug & Kilim Designs Legacy Across Generations

Continuity is a word easily spoken in design, yet rarely earned. For over four decades, Rug & Kilim has built a legacy not through repetition, but […]
November 6, 2025

Autumn 2025: Rug & Kilim’s Five Picks for the Season of Warmth and Reverie

Autumn is when light softens, color deepens, and interiors begin to speak in undertones. The autumn of 2025 marks a decisive return to warmth. Across ateliers […]
October 30, 2025

Rugs and Kilims in Conversation with Design Icons of Ponti, Le Corbusier, and Wegner

Few relationships in design are as delicate—and as decisive—as the one between rugs and iconic furniture. A Gio Ponti table, a Le Corbusier sofa, or a […]
October 27, 2025

Hannah Ryggen’s Memories of Three Returns to the Market: Tapestries Redefining the Art of Interior

In an era where art and design often chase the ephemeral, Hannah Ryggen (1894–1970) remains a force of permanence. Her tapestries — complex, moral, and defiantly […]
October 15, 2025

Rug of the Week VI: Chinese Art Deco and the French Imagination, 1920–1930

In the long arc of design history, there is art that merely follows a style, and there is fine art that redefines the geography of taste. […]
September 19, 2025

Zeki Müren, Da Silva Bruhns, and Leleu: How These Artists Transformed Rugs into the Language of Modernism

The story of modernism in textiles is often told through architecture, painting, and furniture. Yet, some of the most radical ideas of the 20th century were […]
September 11, 2025

Where Do Gallery Runner Rugs and Kilims Belong Today?

Design applications of long, narrow rugs in modern homes, lofts, and commercial spaces ~ Gallery runners—those elegant, elongated rugs once devised for palaces and townhouses—have never […]
September 5, 2025

Rug of the Week IV: Mandaroux’s Le Carnaval — A Mid-Century Aubusson Tapestry in the Age of Postwar Reinvention

When the name Aubusson appears in a conversation among connoisseurs, it evokes an institution: five centuries of tapestry production that has furnished the courts of France, […]
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