European Rugs
Our European Collection includes the richest selection of antique rugs, vintage rugs, flatweaves, tapestries and contemporary rugs inspired by an encyclopedia of transitional, Neoclassical, impressionist and period piece designs.
Jahanshah Nazmiyal is a renowned student and curator of these sensibilities, including but not limited to 18th-century Aubusson tapestries, French and Spanish Savonnerie rugs, German hooked rugs, needlepoint rugs, Voysey Arts and Crafts rugs, English Axminster rugs, Irish Donegal rugs, Bessarabian rugs, Italian rugs, Romanian rugs, Austrian rugs and other prominent works from Europe throughout history. These rarities — especially European rugs from the 18th and 19th century — first inspired him to reinterpret their designs, pioneering these rugs in modern textures and weaves that would become his earliest custom collection.
Today, our classic archive continues to grow with rare, unique European rugs from exclusive workshops accumulated over decades, which have witnessed a resurgence in the 21st century and continue to inspire our modern rugs with new approaches to these sensibilities.
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- 9 x 12
- 10 x 14
- 12 x 15
- Over 12 x 15
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38565Antique 17th Century Flemish Tapestry “Verdure aux Oiseaux” with Narrative Pictorials - Rug & Kilim
38564Antique 19th Century French Aubusson Rug with Bouquet Medallion & Boiserie Framing - Rug & Kilim
38513Antique 17th Century German Square Tapestry with Mythological Narrative Pictorials - Rug & Kilim
38512Antique 18th Century Aubusson Tapestry Fragment “Verdure aux Oiseaux” with Bird Pictorials - Rug & Kilim
38511Antique 17th Century Belgian Flemish Tapestry with Wolf Hunt Narrative Pictorials - Rug & Kilim
38497Signed Vintage French Post Modern Aubusson Tapestry by Richard Rapaich - Rug & Kilim
5028744Rug & Kilim’s Contemporary European Gift-Sized Rug with Arabesque Design
38058Oversized Vintage French Aubusson Rug with Pink & Cream Floral Medallion Design
38010Vintage French Square Rug with Cartouche Design in Pink & Beige - Rug & Kilim
38013Vintage French Art Nouveau Medallion Rug with Floral Pattern - Rug & Kilim
38012Vintage French Art Deco Runner with Stylized Fan Pattern - Rug & Kilim
36366Rug & Kilim's Contemporary European Rug in Green & Purple Floral Design- Out of Stock
37808Rug & Kilim's Contemporary European Custom Rug in Beige & Gray Design 
37433Vintage Mid-Century Modern Rug with Abstract Design in Brown Hues - Rug & Kilim
37887Vintage Italian Braided Rug with Multicolor Striped Design - Rug & Kilim
37889Vintage Dutch Runner in Raspberry with Textural Geometric Design - Rug & Kilim- 37379Antique Hooked German Tetex Rug in Terracotta with Gul Design - Rug & Kilim
37962Signed Vintage Portuguese "Caravelle" Tapestry in Black & Gold by Mathieu Matégot - Rug & Kilim
37953Antique 19th Century La Savonnerie Gallery Runner with Dense Floral - Rug & Kilim
37485Antique 19th Century English Needlepoint Rug with Chinese Dragon & Waves - Rug & Kilim
36966Oversized Antique 19th Century French Aubusson Rug in Gold with Floral Medallion - Rug & Kilim- Out of Stock
37138Antique Art Deco Rug Pair by Jean Burkhalter for Pierre Chareau - Rug & Kilim 
37875Antique Signed 19th Century Pater Noster Needlework Embroidery by François Damiens - Rug & Kilim
37874Antique 17th Century Flemish Brussels Tapestry Fragment Pair with Pictorials - Rug & Kilim
37873Antique 17th Century Flemish Brussels Tapestry Fragment Pair with Pictorials - Rug & Kilim
37872Signed Vintage French Aubusson Tapestry "Signal" by Maurice André - Rug & Kilim
37456Oversized Antique 19th Century Savonnerie Gold Rug with Floral Cartouche - Rug & Kilim- 37486Oversized Antique 18th Century French Aubusson ‘Louis Philippe Rug’ - Rug & Kilim
37472Oversized Antique Spanish Rug with Geometric Designs in Gold & Gray - Rug & Kilim
37454Oversized Antique Spanish Rug with Delicate Lattice in Gray & Beige - Rug & Kilim
37148Oversized Antique Spanish Savonnerie Rug with Stately Medallion - Rug & Kilim
37455Oversized Antique 20th Century Spanish Rug with Rich Floral Vinery - Rug & Kilim
37452Oversized Antique Portuguese Rug with Floral Motifs & Medallion - Rug & Kilim
37448Oversized Antique Savonnerie Rug with Acanthus Leaf Design - Rug & Kilim
37712Signed Vintage Dom Robert Aubusson Rug with Rooster Design - Rug & Kilim
37000Oversized Antique Spanish Savonnerie Rug with Bold Floral Medallion - Rug & Kilim
37200Antique Savonnerie Rug with Botanical Green Floral Design - Rug & Kilim- 37236Oversized Vintage Aubusson Floral Rug in Beige & Pale Pink - Rug & Kilim
37203Antique European Axminster Rug with Colorful Intricate Floral Vines - Rug & Kilim
36743Vintage Aubusson Needlepoint Rug with Bold Floral Medallions - Rug & Kilim
37170Antique French Aubusson with Rare Polychromatic Pictorials - Rug & Kilim- 37169Antique Spanish Savonnerie Rug with Floral Design in Multicolour - Rug & Kilim
37167Oversized Antique Austrian Savonnerie Rug with Golden Florals - Rug & Kilim
37151Oversized Antique French Savonnerie Rug with Classic Floral Borders - Rug & Kilim- 37149Oversized Antique Savonnerie Rug with Beige & Brown Stately Medallion - Rug & Kilim
Stories from the European Archive
Essays, artist dialogues, and provenance notes drawn from Rug & Kilim’s editorial desk.
A Guide to Axminster Rugs: History, Craftsmanship, and British Design Heritage
Among the most influential carpet traditions to emerge from Europe, Axminster rugs occupy a distinguished position within the history of decorative arts, architecture, and interior design. Renowned for their exceptional craftsmanship, technical innovation, and artistic sophistication, Axminster carpets represent one of Britain's most important contributions to the global history of textile design. Originating in the historic market town of Axminster in Devon, England, these carpets became synonymous with luxury, refinement, and excellence from the eighteenth century onward. Their influence extended far beyond Britain, shaping carpet production, interior decoration, and architectural furnishing throughout Europe, North America, and the wider world.
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The House the European Stuycks Kept: Madrid’s Royal Loom, Goya’s Cartoons, and the Spanish Carpet
There is a building in Madrid, a short walk from the Atocha station, where the same craft has been practiced without interruption for more than three hundred years. Its brick and its Neo-Mudéjar arches were raised in the nineteenth century, but the work carried on inside them belongs to a lineage older still, to 1720, when Philip V, having lost the Flemish tapestry workshops of the Spanish Netherlands to the Peace of Utrecht, resolved that Spain would simply make its own. He summoned a family of Flemish weavers, the Vandergotens, to Madrid, and founded the Real Fábrica de Tapices de Santa Bárbara. Three centuries later, in the presence of the King and Queen of Spain, the factory marked its tercentenary as one of the last places on earth where royal weaving continues by the hand, exactly as it always has.
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The Artists Behind European Tapestry: A Guide to the Names Worth Knowing
There is a persistent misconception about tapestry, and it is worth correcting at the outset: that the weaving is the whole of the art. It is not. Behind every great European tapestry stands an artist, the author of the design from which the weavers worked, and the history of the medium is in large part the history of these figures. To collect tapestry seriously, or simply to understand it well, is to know their names. What follows is a guide to the artists who matter most, arranged as the tradition itself unfolded, from the royal workshops of the old regime to the modern revival that made tapestry, once again, one of the most ambitious art forms in the world.
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A Guide to Bessarabian Rugs: History, Design, and Modern Luxury
Within the world of collectible textiles and luxury interiors, few rug traditions possess the quiet sophistication and painterly elegance of Bessarabian rugs. Emerging from the historic region of Bessarabia—an area historically situated between present-day Moldova, Romania, and Ukraine—these rugs occupy a unique position at the crossroads of Eastern European folk tradition, Ottoman influence, Russian imperial culture, and French decorative aesthetics. Unlike the geometric tribal weavings commonly associated with Central Asia or the medallion-driven structures of Persian carpets, Bessarabian rugs developed a distinctly atmospheric and ornamental visual language. Their floral compositions, subdued tonal harmonies, and expansive decorative fields positioned them closer to European decorative arts than purely utilitarian floor coverings.
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Savonnerie, Aubusson, Gobelins: The Three Ateliers That Defined What Europe Believed a Rug Could Be
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 to the East. French silver was flowing steadily toward Persia and the Levant in exchange for knotted-pile carpets, objects of such refinement and such authority that no European workshop had yet produced anything capable of competing with them. Henri IV, who had survived the Wars of Religion and the bankruptcy of a kingdom to sit on the French throne, was not a man inclined to accept a problem he could solve. He installed Pierre Dupont — weaver, entrepreneur, and the most technically accomplished carpet-maker in France in the galleries of the Louvre itself, in workshops beneath the palace's own roof, with a single instruction: make something that does not require us to send money to Persia.
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Rug of the Week IV: Mandaroux’s Le Carnaval — A Mid-Century Aubusson Tapestry in the Age of Postwar Reinvention
NO. 33873 Vintage French Aubusson Mandaroux Tapestry in Green with Pictorial | Rug & Kilim >> 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, the grand hôtels particuliers of Paris, and the most ambitious interiors of Europe. Yet, the 20th century forced Aubusson into an existential shift. With the Second World War leaving both industry and identity fractured, the ateliers of central France were compelled to modernize. Painters, architects, and designers were invited to collaborate, transforming tapestry from historicist ornament into a modern art form.
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