Kilim & Flat Weave
Students of Kilims (Kelims, Gelims, or Killims in some traditional spellings) know they’re one of the oldest rug styles, and absolutely one of the most personal. These and similar flatweave rugs are often some of the richest examples of history, folk art and craft in any culture, many of which include archaic, primitivist and tribal provenances like those represented in this archive.
This Kilim & Flat Weave collection is the largest of any in the world, and includes both antique and vintage pieces as well as the modern works we create. Josh Nazmiyal’s global relationships allow him to curate rare and unusual sizes, exotic weaving variations, and collectibles in Persian Kilims, Turkish Kilims, European Kilims, Balkan Kilims, Bessarabian Kilims, Caucasian Kilims, other tribal Kilims and flatweaves of every culture. So too do his relationships with the most reliable partner looms in the handmade industry, allowing him to expand and refine our custom Kilims to the cutting edge.
- Under 6 x 9
- Runners
- 6 x 9
- 8 x 10
- 9 x 12
- 10 x 14
- 12 x 15
- Over 12 x 15
- Turkish Kilim
- Persian Kilim
- Dhurrie & Flat Weave
- Rez Kilim
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38158Vintage Turkish Kilim Runner with Folk Designs in Red & Orange - Rug & Kilim
38103Vintage Turkish Kilim Rug with Stripes in Warm Beige & Gray - Rug & Kilim
38089Vintage Chaput Kilim Runner with Vibrant Blue, Red & Pink Stripes - Rug & Kilim
38066Vintage Persian Mazandaran Kilim Extra Long Runner in Beige & Cream - Rug & Kilim
37945Rug & Kilim's Contemporary Dhurrie Gift-Sized Rug in Textured Beige & Ivory
36455Rug & Kilim's Contemporary Scandinavian Flat Weave Rug in Pink Hexagonal Grid
36459Rug & Kilim’s Contemporary Scandinavian Flatweave Rug with Rust Geometric Design
36434Rug & Kilim’s Contemporary Scandinavian Flatweave Rug with Mosaic Design in Sage
36439Rug & Kilim's Contemporary Scandinavian Kilim Rug with Beige Geometric Design
35535Vintage Persian Bidjar Kilim, Pinstripe Design in Beige and Chocolate - Rug & Kilim
37942Rug & Kilim's Scandinavian Flatweave Rug with Geometric Grid in Lush Green Hues
37941Rug & Kilim's Oversized Scandinavian Flatweave Rug with Motif Grid in Brown
37879Rug & Kilim's Oversized Scandinavian Flatweave Rug with Geometric Grid in Blue
37878Rug & Kilim's Oversized Scandinavian Flatweave Rug with Geometric Design in Beige- Out of Stock
37876Rug & Kilim's Oversized Scandinavian Custom Flatweave Rug with Geometric Grid 
36448Rug & Kilim’s Scandinavian Flatweave Rug with Red Geometric Checkered Grid
36442Rug & Kilim’s Scandinavian Rug with Geometric Design in Brown Tones- Out of Stock
36441Rug & Kilim’s Scandinavian Custom Rug with Geometric Pattern in Gray & Beige 
36460Rug & Kilim’s Scandinavian Rug with Geometric Grid in Muted Blue Hues
36397Rug & Kilim’s Scandinavian Rug with Geometric Windowpane Design in Brown Hues
36464Rug & Kilim's Oversized Contemporary Textural Solid Rug in Indigo Blue- Out of Stock
36446Rug & Kilim's Contemporary Oversized Scandinavian Custom Rug in Blue Tones 
36423Rug & Kilim's Oversized Contemporary Scandinavian Rug in Blue Geometric Design- Out of Stock
36436Rug & Kilim's Scandinavian Kilim Custom Rug in Blue & Gray with Geometric Motifs - Out of Stock
36408Rug & Kilim's Scandinavian Kilim Custom Rug in Sage Green Geometric Design 
36454Rug & Kilim's Scandinavian Rug in Sage Green & Ivory with Geometric Design
36440Rug & Kilim's Scandinavian Rug in Pastel Multicolor Geometric Design
37885Vintage Persian Solid Flatweave in Red with Charcoal Border - Rug & Kilim
36463Rug & Kilim's Contemporary Scandinavian Geometric Flatweave with Neutral Design
36433Rug & Kilim's Contemporary Scandinavian Rug with Architectural Panel Design- Out of Stock
36430Rug & Kilim's Scandinavian Custom Flatweave Rug in Black & Brown Geometry - Out of Stock
36425Rug & Kilim Scandinavian Custom Flatweave Rug with Geometric Design - Out of Stock
36414Rug & Kilim's Scandinavian Custom Flatweave Rug with Pink Vinery Pattern - Out of Stock
36395Rug & Kilim's Oversized Scandinavian Rug in Exotic Yarn with Nordic Design - Out of Stock
36412Rug & Kilim’s Scandinavian Geometric Custom Flatweave Rug in Gold 
36130Rug & Kilim's Contemporary Rez Kilim with Beige and Black Geometric Design
36133Rug & Kilim’s Contemporary Rez Kilim Flatweave Rug with Brown Striped Design
36134Rug & Kilim's Contemporary Rez Kilim with Multicolor Striped Design
36135Rug & Kilim's Contemporary Rez Kilim with Navy and Red Striped Design
36172Rug & Kilim's Contemporary Rez Kilim with Red, Blue & Orange Stripes
36181Rug & Kilim's Contemporary Rez Kilim with Beige & Red Striped Design
36182Rug & Kilim's Contemporary Rez Kilim Runner with Brown Striae Design
36186Rug & Kilim's Contemporary Rez Kilim with Brown Striped Design- Out of Stock
27801Rug & Kilim’s Contemporary Kilim in Gold and Sky Blue Stripes with Brown Accents 
36039Rug & Kilim’s Contemporary Square Flatweave Rug with Variegated Stripes
Stories from the Kilim & Flat Weave Archive
Essays, artist dialogues, and provenance notes drawn from Rug & Kilim’s editorial desk.
The Evolution of Floral Motifs in Antique Rugs and Kilims: Mapping the Pomegranate, Tulip, and Carnation
Antique 17th Century French Beauvais Tapestry with Floral Vase - Rug & Kilim, NO. 36829 We had a tapestry acquisition unfolding itself in the studio a while ago. Josh and the team just stood there, silently admiring the way the light caught the threads. This was the Antique French Beauvais Tapestry (SKU 36829). It was handwoven in wool, with natural silk accents, circa 1700. When you look at something like that, you do not just see fabric. What you see is the garden of wool and dreams. The precise interlacing of the wefts gives a picture of a gigantic floral vase placed atop an architectural entablature. The botanical imagery is absolutely mesmerizing. There is so much wealth and mystery to it all.
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Vintage Andean Frazada Kilim and the Three Thousand Years of Living Memory Held in Its Weave
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 for centuries in the high villages of Peru and Bolivia for one reason only, to survive the cold, has become one of the most quietly coveted textiles in contemporary design. Collectors who could specify anything are choosing these. The reason has nothing to do with trend, and everything to do with what a frazada actually is. To understand a frazada, you must first understand the altitude. Above four thousand meters in the Andes, higher than any peak in the contiguous United States, in air so thin that newcomers move slowly and sleep poorly for days, the cold is not a season. It is a constant. It arrives every night, regardless of the calendar, and it has arrived every night for as long as people have lived in these mountains. The frazada was the answer to that cold: a thick, dense, hand-woven wool blanket, made not for sale, not for export, not for the floors of distant apartments, but for survival. For warmth. For the bed of a family that would not otherwise make it through the dark.
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Rug & Kilim’s Tapestry Artists’ Series: In Dialogue with Joanne Soroka
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 of any medium never reach, who weave lives. Not their own lives, though those are present too, but the lives of people who left no other record: emigrants who crossed oceans under duress, ancestors who worked rivers in foreign countries, families scattered across continents by persecution and necessity and the simple human desire for somewhere better than where they were. Joanne Soroka weaves these lives. She gives them, as she has said herself, the meaning that history denied them. The loom, in her hands then, is an act of remembrance, slow, physical, irreversible, and as close to justice as textile art has ever come.
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A Rug & Kilim’s Guide to Rug Patterns in Interior Design: A Study of Persian, European, Scandinavian, Art Deco and Modern Styles
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. A Manhattan interior shaped by the restraint of Peter Marino, where a Scandinavian flatweave holds its ground against glass, steel, and silence. A private riad in Marrakech, where tribal geometry converses effortlessly with shadow, plaster, and time. In such spaces, pattern is not simply chosen. To understand pattern at this level is to move beyond decoration into discipline. Great decorators and architects like Jacques-Émile Ruhlmann, Le Corbusier, and Gio Ponti never treated surfaces as passive. Floors, like walls and ceilings, were compositional fields governed by proportion, rhythm, and intellectual clarity.
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A Rug & Kilim Perspective on Boutique Hospitality, Hotels, and the Art of Living Well
ICONIC... The celebrity duo Rihanna and A$AP Rocky behind some of fashion and music's most recognized moments open up to W magazine with a backdrop to die for. Sitting in one of the luxury suites at the momentous Mercer Hotel in SoHo NYC is an antique Persian rug by the Rug & Kilim Collection. There are interiors that impress, and there are interiors that endure. The latter; quietly commanding, intellectually composed, are rarely the result of singular gestures. It is intellectual, atmospheric, and deeply material. From the restrained grandeur of Mayfair to the cinematic restraint of Avenue Montaigne, from the private villas of Lake Como to the upper floors of Central Park South, and from Claridge’s, to the villas of Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc, or in the rarefied interiors of Aman Tokyo; spaces where luxury is not declared, but resolved.
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Bessarabian Rugs and Kilims: A European Textile Tradition at the Crossroads of Art, Empire and Design
In a quietly elegant London dining room, a vintage Bessarabian Kilim unfolds beneath the table like an unexpected conversation. Its geometry—subtle yet assertive—draws the eye before one quite realizes why. Inspired by the visual language of early twentieth-century design, the rug nods gently toward the stylized symmetry of Art Deco while remaining unmistakably rooted in a much older European weaving lineage. The effect is a foundation that feels both deliberate and effortless, an object whose presence quietly animates the room. Those who spend time studying interiors often admit a particular fondness for photographs that capture rooms in use rather than in perfection. The slight shift of a chair, the shadow of evening light on polished wood, a glass forgotten after supper—these small evidences of life soften even the most composed design. In such moments, a rug becomes more than a decorative surface. It becomes the mediator between architecture and living.
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