tapestries

February 27, 2026

The Art of Appraisal: Inside Rug & Kilim’s Culture of Connoisseurship

There is a difference between owning a rug and stewarding one. At Rug & Kilim, appraisal exists at the intersection of scholarship, diplomacy, and design history. […]
February 13, 2026

Tapestries in the Language of Contemporary Design: When Walls Speak

Tapestry is the oldest form of spatial storytelling. Before wallpaper became political, before murals were democratized, before art was framed, taxed, traded, or speculated upon, power […]
December 17, 2025

The Rug & Kilim Triad: Art, Fashion, Architecture — and the Anatomy of a Rug

In the most serious interiors, rugs are never decorative. They are structural, ideological, and curatorial. They anchor space, discipline movement, and quietly declare the intellectual posture […]
November 10, 2025

Rug & Kilim’s Royal Collection: The Politics of Pattern and the Poetry of Power

A lineage of beauty, power, and craftsmanship — from 16th-century courts to the ateliers of the modern age. Royalty in design is not inherited. It is […]
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 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 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, […]
September 4, 2025

The Politics of Color in Rugs and Kilims: Empire, Trade, and Exchange

Color in rugs has never been neutral. The shades that suffuse carpets — indigo blues, cochineal reds, madder browns, saffron yellows — are more than decorative […]
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